Author: Andrew Back

Earlier this year we shared details of some acrylic enclosures we had made and enamel badges we’d commissioned, suggesting that, if it appeared as though there would be sufficient demand, we would consider making these available to purchase. After some encouraging comments we did just that and set up an… Read More

We commissioned our friends at Black Dragon Badges to make Parallella and UmTRX badges in glorious metal and vitreous enamel, and the results can be seen above. The badges will be given as thank you to core project team members and… Read More

I’m much happier when development boards are protected by some sort of basic enclosure. Even when they spend most of their time sitting on an anti-static mat on the workbench, with prolonged use there is still the worry that a cable may inadvertently get pulled and cause a board to… Read More

Hosting a project stand and a developer room at the world’s biggest open source conference. Every year in February some 5,000+ open source advocates journey from across Europe and much farther afield to congregate in Brussels for a weekend of talks, workshops and discussion, and to meet friends old and… Read More

While I was in the workshop over the weekend I decided to see if I could work out just how many ARM processors there were hidden inside all the devices and development boards. The results of my findings are below, ordered roughly by the date of acquisition and going some… Read More

It’s been something of a hectic year, as with the previous two; the first spent working every available hour on SolderPad, the second building up a consultancy practice, and the third — that has been every bit as busy so far. Of course, this is in no way a… Read More