NanoNote

We will put wireless on NanoNote(II)

Sat, 2011-05-07 20:10 — David Samblas

We have already recived the PCB boards of the AtBen and AtUSB, what is this? if you don't know the anwer please take a look to our previous post We will put wireless on NanoNote, we also already send some of this boards to the SMT factory to let them start to ironing the components. Once we know the definitive delivery date we will start the pre-order process. Stay tunned!
You can see more images of the PCB boards inside the post

Ardunote project: Arduino + NanoNote

Fri, 2011-03-11 09:01 — David Samblas

On Tuxbrain, thanks to the Qi-Hardware , AVRFreaks communities and to the little UBB board, we have successfully flash an Arduino board from Ben NanoNote without need of external power, directly connecting a cable from the NanoNote 8:10 bay to the ICSP header on Arduino, also without need of bootloader in the Atmega328 chip, in fact NanoNote can flash the bootloaders :), and in theory Nanonote can flash whatever avrdude compatible chip without need of any board (untested yet). Making the little Ben the first AVR microcontroller programmer in the world able to edit the source code, building it, listen music or play Supertux at same time, in same device, not bad for only 99€ ;)

From this starting point, we have founded a project called, in a fit of originality, ArduNote, that has as goal make the NanoNote a (even more) useful tool for Arduino and the rest of the AVR family. Right now is less more than a mission statement but in that wiki page we will try to collect all available information related to interaction between this two free(as freedom) hardware platforms, for now enjoy the video demo , and if you decide to jump in , if you buy a NanoNote and a Arduino we will include for free a UBB board and the components needed (cable, ICSP connector and schottky diode) to make the cable than appears in the video

NanoNote's first (and basic) addon UBB

Thu, 2011-02-17 19:55 — David Samblas

UBB stands for Universal Breakout Board is a tiny PCB in 8:10 form factor that expose the 8 contacts of the NanoNote 8:10 card slot allowing to connect to other devices, modules, or DIY things without need to solder directly on the NanoNote PCB.

Now collecting preorders
Estimated shipping day 5th March 2011

Bruselas, Europe's capital

Tue, 2011-02-08 16:57 — David Samblas

Where cars goes backwards and Russian is spoken at bars ... and also put mules in your chips.
Right, any of this has any sense, but who cares, we have a clear objective, enjoy this year knowing in advance we have one, our little stand on FOSDEM 2011, before we go to the photos(video on later post as usual) I want to thank all who have visit our stand to wave, both the new ones an those who repeat, thanks to FOSDEM organization, the make us feel like home, thanks to our friends of Hackable Devices to let us that valuable piece of table, boys and girls on Qi Hardware for crating such wonderful marvels that are NanoNote , Milkymist and the next ones to come, to developers of Jlime, to SDGSystems to let us the valuable and powerful Nomad and Yuma and show the world Linux can be secure inside and barely indestructible on outside, also to hundred of people that ask us if NanoNote has Wifi ,why it don't have, and when it will have it, I had miss the count around the 267 but also thank you to them too. Thanks to all followers, costumers, curious, developers, collaborators, family and friends to make us able be there one more time. Photos on inside the post.

Going out the cave, FOSDEM2011 here we go!

Fri, 2011-02-04 01:48 — David Samblas

After some period working on background, working with other projects and preparing this new year 2011, we have been not stopped at all :), we don't have stopped on colaboration on Qi-hardware[1] and Arduino[2] projects, we were also rebuilding our webshop on the inside an the visible part too, finding new devices to work on and include them in our catalog, an well quite some more things we well start along this year[3] , and what better way show that things than at FOSDEM 2011 , thanks to our friends from Hackable Devices we will share stand with them and Golden Delicious. We will expose there the products and projects we are working on like NanoNote, MilkyMist, Arduino and also anounce our colaboration with Nan Tic porting his OpenErp client app Koo to make it run on Rugged Handhelds and POS hardware.
I you will go there and pass near the stands[4] don't hesitate to wave, take a look, exange opinions or simple put a face and voice on that IRC or mail , we will love to meet you there.

[1] That is the latests news from Qi-Hardware
[2]we will do an Arduino Barcam inside the 1UP Barcam on Sabadell
[3]a minute video (in spanish) about what we are planing for this year

[4]The stand is located in the hallway of building AW

See you there :)

Nanowar of Steel proudly showing his Ben NanoNote

Thu, 2010-09-16 12:10 — David Samblas

Copyleft Hardware featuring Copyleft Music :)

Wed, 2010-09-15 20:19 — David Samblas

Q.H.B.N.N.T.S.E.N.O.F.P.B.T.
(Qi Hardware Ben NanoNote True Special Editon Nanowar Of Steel Powered By Tuxbrain)

NanoNote finds the equilibrium

Sun, 2010-08-08 10:45 — David Samblas

On the qi-hardware list a post of non electronic hack of the Ben Nanonote from Werner Almesberger has improve a lot the stability of the system , see picture and video of what we are talking about :)

Debian runs on the Ben NanoNote!

Mon, 2010-05-03 15:50 — David Samblas

Thanks to our friends and great supporters at pyneo.org we can announce the availability of a Debian compatible kernel and two different Debian ubi rootfs files. One is a minimal Debian and the other additionally contains everything you need to compile on the Ben.

Qi Hardware Commuity News April 29th

Fri, 2010-04-30 13:35 — David Samblas

Hey, the second edition of our community news is out. It is divided between news around the Ben NanoNote, SAKC, Milkymist, OpenWrt and miscellaneous items :)