Holiday sales are picking up and shipments of a few critical components are just now arriving. As of today I only have a few Geiger Counter kits left in stock. I expect to sell out within the next few days, but should have more kits ready within 2-3 weeks.
International customers – I recommend ordering now to guarantee delivery by Christmas.
– Jeff
PS: Rescue Shield kits are running low as well. Once I sell out I probably won’t have more before early 2015.
The 2014 Maker Faire Bay Area will take place in San Mateo, CA this coming weekend, May 17-18th. I’ll be there! No booth this time. I’ll be wandering around the fairgrounds hoping to actually see the Faire this year.
Rescue Shield kits are (finally!) back in stock.
The Rescue Shield is a 100% open source, Arduino-based high voltage mode fuse programmer for AVR microcontrollers.
It allows you bring an otherwise “bricked” or misconfigured AVR back to life by editing the configuration fuses that control the operation of the RESET pin, the internal oscillator, and other features of the microcontroller. The Rescue Shield can talk to chips when ordinary ISP programmers can’t.
Tony Long and I designed and built a 24 GHz low noise amplifier for our ECE192 undergraduate independent study project at UCSD.
The amplifier was designed with an early version of Agilent ADS, PCBs were fabricated on Rogers 5880 (Duroid), and we hand built several prototypes on K-connector fixtures that Tony designed. Measured results were consistent with our simulations.
Tony and I won an award for this project at the Eureka! undergraduate research conference in June 2000.
I heard recently that this project is being used as an example of a good EE senior design project at other universities, so I dug up an original copy of the paper we submitted and posted a PDF here.
What an awesome event. Great people, great talks, and gorgeous weather made for an epic weekend in Cambridge.
Also, I just finished recording a shiny new episode of The Amp Hour, which should be online as soon as Chris finishes editing. Look for it later tonight or tomorrow on Tuesday.