Pledge: Nanodes

Functioning Nanode!

This a a pledge for the bulk purchase of PCBs and all required components for pledgers to construct the Arduino compatible Nanode boards.

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.

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.

The version 4 pcb files are almost ready for despatch to the board manufacturer. We expect to have the first boards back by the first week of May.

Pledge operation

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.

Warning

Please be sure that you know what you're buying!

• Construction/soldering required
• Access to a FTDI cable is required for programming the Nanode. You'll be using this frequently so it's best to have your own. - This may not be needed now - Ken is trying to fit a USB port onboard.
• Access to an AVR programmer or another Arduino is required to burn the bootloader - you should only need to do this when you first construct the board. We have a suitable programmer at the space.

Pledge leader: Elliot

The item

• See: The Nanode project page for more information.

Budget estimation

• <all the bits you need>
• <quotes from suppliers>

Pledges

Pay with payment ref: 'NANODE1' - please stike out your name and mark it with 'PAID'.

• £36 (2) -- Teabot 12:09, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
• £36 (2) -- Catie 8:30, April 1, 2011
• £72 (4) -- Spike 08:07, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
• £36 (2) -- Ciemon 09:32, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
• £18 (1) -- Martind 08:38, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
• £72 (4) -- matthew venn Fri Apr 1 11:48:57 BST 2011
• £18 (1) -- amx109 Fri Apr 1 12:19
• £18 (1) -- Mildlymad Fri Apr 1 16:43
• £36 (2) -- MattHearn Fri April 1 16:58
• £36 (2) -- ArtagPAID --Artag 16:27, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
• £36 (2) -- V21 09:46, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
• £18 (1) -- Tomwj 13:40, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
• £36 (2) -- snim2 14:41, 10 April 2011 (UTC) (Plus P&P to Coventry if I can't pick up in person!)
• £18 (1) -- Chris Swetenham/Fib (cswetenham@gmail.com) (Plus P&P to Cambridge etc)
• £18 (1) -- nneil 2011-04-13 20:29 BST
• £18 (1) -- jmccrohan 2011-04-14 11:28:18 UTC - Plus postage to Ireland.
• £90 (5) -- earthshine 2011-04-15 07:28 UTC
• £36 (2) -- HKAirpost 10:32, 15 April 2011 (UTC) - Plus postage to France
• £18 (1) -- Michael Erskine 17 April 2011 (UTC)
• £36 (2) -- asc PAID 2011-04-15, 10:41, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
• £72 (4) -- Bob/b3cft Paid Fri 15 April 2011
• £18 (1) -- John Crouchley PAID ref NANODE1 JOHNC 2011-04-14 09:54 BST
• £18 (1) -- MartinJ PAID - although without ref NANODE1!! sorry! 2011-04-14 11:18 BST
• £18 (1) -- DMI PAID 14:46, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
• £18 (1) -- parag0n PAID (15th Apr, 15:50 ish) 14:51, 13 April 2011 (UTC) (Plus p&p to Manchester if thats OK)
• £36 (2) -- elyob PAID - ref left off too .. sorry! 17:57, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
• £18 (1) -- pyrhho PAID 09:21, April 16, 2011
• £18 (1) -- WzDD 19:00, April 1, 2011. PAID, Apr 13
• £36 (2) -- Chunkyhampton 10:20, April 19, 2011 (Plus p&p to Nottingham...)

Running total: £926 (52 kits)

Paid Up Total: £216 (12 kits)