Sunday, August 28, 2011

Nanode - An Open Hardware Success Story

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Big ideas have to start somewhere small - and that was exactly how Nanode started. In early July 2010, having spent a month in southern C...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Nanode Applications Weekend and Gas Revisited - yet Again

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As the Nanode project approaches the anniversary of its conception, and arguably just 4 months since birth, it was felt that it was time to ...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Nanode Goes Global

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Nanode has started to go from strength to strength. More than 250 Nanodes have been shipped since June 1st - and the trend appears to be inc...
Friday, July 15, 2011

OggCamp - Nanode's 2nd Outing

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Nanode is going from strength to strength. In fact there's barely a weekend between now and October that there's not something Nano...
Saturday, July 09, 2011

WIZnet Team on European Tour - Open Hardware

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WIZnet dev team hoping to meet Open Hardware Groups in Europe Hi, Yesterday afternoon/ev...
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Friday, July 01, 2011

Little Fox

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Thursday, June 02, 2011

Nanode 5 Arrives!

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After nearly 3 months of work, the first batch of Nanode 5 boards arrived yesterday. I spent an hour in the evening building one up and 3 ho...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Converging Threads

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Friday May 27th. The Nanode project is at last starting to gel, with a whole lot of separate threads coming together. On Friday I met for lu...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

RAM and MAC

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Today I have been working on a couple of the newer features of Nanode 5 - namely the SPI SRAM and the MAC chip. As part of the improvements ...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Talking about Nanode - at OxHack. Sunday May 15th.

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The one thing I like about Nanode is that it gets you out of the house. A chance Tweet from Oleg Lavrosky from OxHack, suggesting that I jo...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Nanode 5 - The Heat is On

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The last week has been a fever-pitch of activity getting the Nanode pcb ready for volume production. With at least 80 pcbs having been pre-s...

A Week In the Life....

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This week, mostly, I have been soldering...... It's been a busy week, with 2 new arrivals - Nanode 5 and a new DSP microcontroller board...
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Sunday, May 08, 2011

Nanode 5 - Progress Update

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A bit of an early start this morning as my cat woke me at about 4:30am. By 4:50 I was up and starting to finalise the Nanode 5 pcb layout. N...
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Saturday, May 07, 2011

Arduinos, Agents and Mailboxes

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Today I look at some hardware ideas - on a quest for a Universal Programming Platform. It's probably the programming equivalent of the H...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Reinventing the Wheel

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It's a case of what goes around, comes around. This post takes a retrospective look at some minimalist computing solutions which have be...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

JeeNodes Arrive!

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The JeeNode kits I ordered just before Easter have turned up. I ordered 2 JeeNode kits and 4 bare pcbs, which I will make up as and when I n...
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Monday, May 02, 2011

#Snowdonbuild - Final Day

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Day 6 of #snowdonbuild - a unique collaborative project in open hardware and open software, held in rural Snowdonia. The remote farmhouse i...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Nanode Serves Solar Monitoring Data

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Day 5 of #snowdonbuild - a 6 day collaborative Open Hardware and Open Software hack session. To further develop Nanode and Open Energy Monit...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

More Solar PV Tracking and Wireless Communications

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Day 4 of #Snowdonbuild. For the last couple of days we have been working on a simple project which illustrates the capability of the Nanode ...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

SnowdonBuild 2 - Six Days in the Hills

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Take six techie developers and put them in a remote Welsh farmhouse for almost a week, with laptops, broadband and piles of hardware to play...

Simple Solar Tracker - Cat Not Included

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Day three of the #SnowdonBuild. Another sunny day in North Wales, and having got the solar monitor working it was decided to have a go at a ...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Easter Hack - An Arduino Solar Thermal Controller - in 3 days!

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With the longer sunshine hours and warm temperatures, it's time to take my solar water heating out of winter hibernation and improve its...
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