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| ==Midsummer Nanodes== | | ==Midsummer Nanodes== |
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| The next batch of 100 Nanodes will be available from about June 21st. Price is still £18 for Hackspace Members, £20 for non-members. Postage is £2. | | The next batch of 100 Nanode kits will be available from about June 21st. Price is still £18 for Hackspace Members, £20 for non-members. Postage is £2. |
| Payment from now will only be accepted via PayPal to ken dot boak at gmail dot com. If you use the "gift" option - Paypal will not make any deductions. For more information either contact Ken at the email address above or @monsonite on Twitter | | Payment from now will only be accepted via PayPal to ken dot boak at gmail dot com. If you use the "gift" option - Paypal will not make any deductions. For more information either contact Ken at the email address above or @monsonite on Twitter |
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| ''This a a pledge for the bulk purchase of PCBs and '''all''' required components for pledgers to construct the Arduino compatible [[Project:Nanode|Nanode boards]]''.
| | * 1 [[User:gausie|gausie]] (1, £18) |
| | | * 1 [[User:Solexious|Solexious]] - Charles Yarnold - charlesyarnold@gmail.com - Can pay immediately |
| ==Update 3-6-2011 23:48==
| | * 1 Rob Blake - 1 please if available 4/6/11 |
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| ===Nanode Weekend===
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| Welcome to the first Nanode Weekend - for some, the culmination of a very busy Nanode Week!
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| The aim of the next 2 days is to bring as many people up to speed on the Nanode Project, so hopefully you can go away with some new skills and some ideas that you can build upon.
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| Nanode is a first attempt at a collaborative inter-hackspace project, which teaches new skills and provides a useful platform for developing simple applications for the Internet of Things.
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| Nanode arose out of the desire to make a very low cost internet connected device, which could be used for a whole host of different sensor and control applications.
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| It started off in August of last year as three chips on a breadboard, and now, after about 6 months of winter dormant state, the idea germinated again in March and now it is 3 chips on a neat little pcb - which anyone can make.
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| Nanode is a bit like the home - computers I played with as a teenager, just about enough resources to do something useful, or fun. How many others started life with Spectrums or BBC B's?
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| Nanode distils the "spirit" of those early resource limited machines onto a small board - but adds one key ingredient - web connectivity. Nanode becomes an accessible smart device on the end of an infinite length of wire.
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| Nanode owes a lot of its heritage to the work of others. "Standing on the shoulders of giants".
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| Pascal Stang and Guido Socher wrote some clever C code about 5 years ago which makes it possible for a small, low cost device like Nanode to connect to the web.
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| There have been an number of similar implementations of this hardware in the last few years, but none have put everything on a small board which you can actually build yourself in a couple of hours.
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| Nanode takes the best of a whole load of other ideas and makes a small object of desire - building upon the hard work of others. This is the beauty of open source hardware and software - that we are allowed pick up the ideas of others, and positively encouraged to run with them. Nanode, whilst fairly primitive in its basic state, will be improved by others, who will have the desire to do something a bit different. This is technology evolving as we watch it - free from the constraints of big corporations who lock everything up in a closed shop.
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| I've a few people to thank for helping to get Nanode this far:
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| Firstly Ben Pirt - a fellow colleague from my Onzo days, who inspired me to get on with it in arch and produce the first prototypes.
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| Andrew Lindsay - who has built upon the firmware TCP/IP stack of Stang and Socher to make a workable internet connection
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| Usman Haque and Ed Borden of Pachube who have supported Nanode throughout the last couple of months of development.
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| Glyn Hudson and Trystan Lea of OpenEnergyMonitor.org, - a couple of talented young developers from rural North Wales who are tackling the grass roots business of open source energy monitoring.
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| Sam Carlisle and Matt Gaffen - two local enthusiasts at London Hackspace - who dropped everything for a mad trip to Wales to help kickstart the Nanode project.
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| John Crouchley and his mates at Nottinghack - who are early adopters of the latest Nanode.
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| Oleg Lavrovsky, Ben Scroggs, Thomas Amberg, Guenter Hoelzl and numerous others from hackspaces around UK, Europe and USA who have given their support to the Nanode project.
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| OK - speech over - here is the Agenda for tomorrow and Sunday
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| The 100 kits distributed through the London Hackspace have now been sold - in fact we are 25% oversubscribed. | | The 100 kits distributed through the London Hackspace have now been sold - in fact we are 25% oversubscribed. |
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| Further Nanode Kits can be obtained at a price of £20 + £2 P+P from Ken Boak. | | Further Nanode Kits can be obtained at a price of £18/£20 + £2 P+P from Ken Boak. |
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| ==Nanode Bulk Buy==
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| Hackspaces can benefit from buying Nanodes in bulk and making them up themselves. For more details on the costs of various batch sizes, please contact Ken Boak @monsonite on Twitter.
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| With a group purchase we can get both PCBs and components at a '''great price'''. Furthermore, we avoid burdening Ken with the initial cost of PCB production and then having to recoup it retrospectively.
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| We have received a very generous sponsorship offer from Pachube, which will allow us to finance a batch of 100 bare pcbs. Nanode uses Pachube for its web connectivty, so it is very fitting that we have a symbiotic working relationship with those guys in Shoreditch. In exchange Pachube will receive and evaluate 10 Nanode kits and spread the word to their user base.
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| The have been many pcb enhancements to the original Version 2 prototype shown opposite. As a result we chose to build and test a free prototype board made at Spirit Circuits before we commit to the batch of 100 boards. As of 14/5/2011 now that I have successfully tested the new prototype, the version 5 pcb files are now ready for dispatch to the board manufacturer. We expect to have the boards back in the last week of May.
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| [[File:Nanode5_topside.jpg|320px|right|thumb|Version 5 Nanode - Component side of pcb]]
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| All of the components have now arrived and the pcb manufacturer informed me that the boards are being shipped today!
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| Please put your name down here if you want to buy any of the Nanodes unpaid for by May 31st. Don't forget some contact detail like username or Twitter!
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| * Tweaker 1 kit @ 18 quid sterling.No pound sign on my French keyboard,or US dollar sign!Say no more... Please supply contact detail - thanks [[User:monsonite|Ken]]
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| * [[User:gausie|gausie]] (1, £18)
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| * 1 [[User:Solexious|Solexious]] - Charles Yarnold - charlesyarnold@gmail.com - Can pay immediately
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| [[User:Fon|Adrian]] I've bought two but will give one up to first on the waiting list, didn't expect we'd be oversubscribed. - Thanks [[User:monsonite|Ken]]
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| Tweaker-Do I take it thats me on top of the list?
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| * [[User:elyobelyob|elyob]] Sunday most likely (poss both) (possible to collect prior .. as can build at home .. work in Shoreditch)
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| * [[User:fon|fon]] Sunday
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| * [[User:Jyoti|Jyoti]] Sunday
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| * [[User:amx109|amx109]] Sunday (collecting definetly - dont mind building another time if there is limited space)
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| This pledge will operate differently than others. Pledge amounts are fixed at £18 per Nanode kit. Each pledger will receive a PCB and the all of the components required for one Nanode for each £18 that they pledge. We'll stop the pledge and commence ordering when we reached a volume that enables us to purchase each bundle for £18 or less.
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| * <s>Access to a [http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=356 FTDI cable] is required for programming the Nanode. You'll be using this frequently so it's best to have your own.</s> - This may not be needed now - Ken is trying to fit a USB port onboard. | | * <s>Access to a [http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=356 FTDI cable] is required for programming the Nanode. You'll be using this frequently so it's best to have your own.</s> - This may not be needed now - Ken is trying to fit a USB port onboard. |
| * Access to an AVR programmer or [http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP another Arduino] is required to burn the bootloader - you should only need to do this when you first construct the board. We have a [http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3808 suitable programmer] at the space. | | * Access to an AVR programmer or [http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP another Arduino] is required to burn the bootloader - you should only need to do this when you first construct the board. We have a [http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3808 suitable programmer] at the space. |
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| ==Pledges== | | ==PAID - historical reference of first batch of Nanodes - do not delete (yet)== |
| Pay with payment ref: 'NANODE1' - please stike out your name and mark it with ''''PAID''''.
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| If you are not a London Hackspace Member you can PayPal Ken kenboak at stirlingservice dot freeserve dot co dot uk with £20 for each Nanode required and £2 P&P. (Extra for non-UK P&P). Remember to include your postal address!
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| ==4 Units Available - up for grabs to anyone on the waiting list==
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| Paid to Hackspace Bank or Hackspace PayPal 81 Kits | | Paid to Hackspace Bank or Hackspace PayPal 81 Kits |
