An interview with Laen (the force behind Dorkbot PDX)

2010-08-06_at_10-56-16

[PT] recently interviewed [Laen], the man who makes it cheap and easy for hobbiests to have small PCBs manufactured. He created Dorkbot PDX's PCB group order, a rapid turn PCB service which we see used in projects all the time (pretty much any purple PCB has gone through [Laen]). Turns out his real name is [James Neal]. He's a sysadmin by trade but deals in recreational circuitry at night. We … [Read more...]

SparkFun open-sources latest kits

09205-5

SparkFun has started to release some of their kits as open-source hardware. Projects such as ClockIt, a simple alarm clock, have their schematics, board designs, and source code released under the CC-by-sa license. Although most of their widgets and projects already had example code and schematics available, they are now using an open-source license. They are joining adafruit and EMSL and others … [Read more...]