Hackaday.io is full of amazing projects, and we’ve noticed a fair number of those projects have purple PCBs!  Here are some nifty projects that have shared their boards on OSH Park:

World’s Smallest Bat Detector

There are more bats around than you think!

Download / Order

 

PICTIL

Remake of the TIL311 hex LED display with recent technology.

Download / Order

Video of the PICTIL in action:

 

1 Square Inch of Power

An MPPT solar boost converter with 3.3v Output and Supercap energy storage.

Download / Order Power board
Download / Order Solar Panel board

 

Low Power Continuity Tester

An extremely simple, dependable continuity tester

Download / Order

 

Tiny CC430 Development Board

A custom CC430F5137 development board with selectable operational frequency between ISM 868 MHz and 915 MHz.

Download / Order

There were too many awesome One Square Inch entries for us to fit them all into one blog post.  Here are some more shared projects on OSH Park from the contest:

blinktronicator

Sixteen different LED colors on a teeny tiny board.

OSH Park shared project: blinktronicator

 

STM32F030F4P6 breakout board

Not as bulky as the nucleo boards, after all.

OSH Park shared project: STM32F030F4P6 breakout board v

 

tiny7

small seven segment display for plugging on an ISP programming header of an Atmel Board or an Arduino

OSH Park shared project: tiny7

 

mini SAM

Miniature dev board for SAM21D / SAM20D ARM cortex M0+

OSH Park shared project: miniSAM

 

USBreadboardIT

Breadboard-compatible USB PIC16F1455 board

We are honored to see many of the One Square Inch entries used OSH Park to create their boards.  Here’s a few:

quadcopter in one inch

itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny fully autonomous quadcopter

OSH Park shared project: minicopter/201510.1

Micro Word Clock

Displaying the time on 8×8 pixels

OSH Park shared project: MicroWordClock v2

Check out their video:

Square Inch USB Sound Card

Small audio interface for adding a digital channel to an analog mixer

OSH Park shared project: SIUSBSC

Key Pass

Keychain USB multiple password manager/generator/injector

OSH Park shared project: Key Pass

 

The annual Open Hardware Summit has just announced that the 2016 city will be Portland on October 7th!

We are excited to announce that this years #ohsummit16 will be Oct 7th at @CrystalPortland #pdxorbust pic.twitter.com/cCRlX47I2W

— Open Hardware Summit (@ohsummit) January 15, 2016

The venue will be the Crystal Ballroom:

Hope to see you all there!  In the meantime, the Open Source Hardware Association has posted photos and videos of OHS 2015 last year in Philly:

The One Square Inch Project on Hackaday.io has produced some amazing results!  Hackaday recently announced the winners:

The Best Projects That Fit In A Square Inch

The winner of Hackaday.io’s first user-created contest is Quadcopter In One Inch:

This wins the grand prize of a $100 credit for the Hackaday Store and a $50 gift certificate to OSHPark.There are six other prizes, each receiving a $50 credit to the Hackaday Store and $25 for OSHPark:

• Key Pass, a USB password manager/generator/injector
• RFID Air Pressure Sensor, a device that puts the technology of tire pressure monitors into bikes.
• Small Voltmeter, a breadboardable volt meter built around old bubble LED displays.
• Micro Word Clock, a word clock built around an 8×8 LED matrix.
• Square Inch USB Sound Card, does exactly what it says on the tin.
• Micro Progmeter, a volt and ohmmeter with OLED display.

There were 76 projects entered into the contest, and I highly recommend browsing through them for inspiration!

Square Inch Project Entrants

Projects that fit in a square inch

Howdy – I’m Drew Fustini and am delighted to have joined the OSH Park team this week!

As a founding member of the Open Source Hardware Association, I’ve long admired the critical role that OSH Park plays in many Open Source Hardware projects.

I’m also a Maker Faire junkie and always enjoy seeing beautiful purple PCBs in projects.  It was awesome to meet the OSH Park team at the traditional post-Maker-Faire #BringAHack dinner last year.  I even found the courage to inch my way close enough to OP Shark to snap this GIF:

So stay tuned to this blog to see what amazing things people are making with purple PCBs!

 

OSH Park is pleased to offer a new PCB option:

2 Layer 2oz 0.8mm Service

A special stackup intended for a variety of high-power and low weight circuit designs. This service features a 0.032″ (0.8mm) thick PCB, and includes 2oz (2.8mil, 70um) copper. That’s half the thickness of our standard boards, and with twice the copper!

Pricing

$5 per square inch, which includes three copies of your design. For example, a 2 square inch board would cost $10 and you’d get three copies of your board. You can order as many copies as you want, as long as they’re in multiples of three.

Turn Times

Orders are sent to fabrication every two weeks, and have a turn time from the fab of one week.

You can get a quote, approve a design, and pay for an order at OSH Park.