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Copyleft Hardware has no hollidays! Qi Hardware News (08/08/11)

Wed, 2011-08-10 03:25 — David Samblas

Well maybe in  Tuxbrain slow down the rhythm  a little bit :P,  but real far from being resting! Here you will find a summary of the movements on the Qi community last three months . Sit down and relax due this months has been really busy in Copyleft Hardware's

We will put wireless on NanoNote(II)

Sat, 2011-05-07 19:10 — 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

We will put wireless on NanoNote

Mon, 2011-04-04 07:20 — David Samblas


We start to feel comfortable on this of producing hardware, so after our positive experienceo with the UBB, Tuxbrain will produce the AtBen y AtUSB to enchance NanoNote with  802.15.4 WPAN wireless capabilities, this post is to announce that production has already started, and first units will be ready on mid/end May.
The avobe pictures are the prototypes made by the skilled hands of  Werner Almesberger , who has already reported comunication between two Ben Nanonotes using the stack of linux-zigbee project.
A carlification wireless is not WI FI , on Qi Hardware we don't go a step forward if is not towards freedom, and sadly there is no real free hardware alternative on 802.11(Wi-Fi) yet, so we decide to desing and produce a total copyleft hardware for 802.15.4 (Wireless Personal Area Network WPAN) for protocols based on it like 6LoWPAN or Zigbee, from our part we will focus on 6LoWPAN due is protocol  open, free and under the standards of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)

All production (PCB+SMT) will be done in Spain :)

More info once the prototypes arrive in our hands :)

Bruselas, Europe's capital

Tue, 2011-02-08 15:57 — 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.

Nanowar of Steel proudly showing his Ben NanoNote

Thu, 2010-09-16 11:10 — David Samblas


More pictures in side the post,

NanoNote finds the equilibrium

Sun, 2010-08-08 09:45 — 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 :)

SAKC, another step to Copyleft Hardware

Wed, 2010-07-28 11:10 — David Samblas

SAKC = Swiss Army Knife Card
What is  SAKC?
SAKC is a development board for hardware and software hackers. SAKC has a MIPS processor running at 360MHz, also has an Spartan 3 FPGA. This combination enable many applications like robotics, automation, signal acquisition, and publicity applications. The software is based on Qi-hardware community development, right now there are some distributions available: Openwrt, Debian, Jlime.

Debian runs on the Ben NanoNote!

Mon, 2010-05-03 14:50 — David Samblas

ben_debian_sqeeze_small

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 12:35 — 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 :)

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