Blog reader Atarity just finished the 1st translation of the Soldering is Easy comic book – into Russian!
I’ll post a link from the original post shortly, but I couldn’t wait to share this!
You can download the translation here.
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The “Soldering is Easy” comic book that was released on Monday will be included in a cool book that Mitch Altman (@maltman23) and I are writing about How to Make Cool Things with Microcontrollers (For People Who Know Nothing). It will be published by No Starch Press later this year.
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Translators Wanted
The original one-page solder comic that Mitch and Andie created last year has been translated into several other languages.
We would love to see our new “Soldering is Easy” comic book translated into lots of other languages as well!
If you would like to volunteer to do a translation, there are a couple resources available to help you:
- The Comic Life source files for the comic are now online (and linked to from the original post as well). (You’ll need a copy of Comic Life to use this file.)
- We deleted all the English text from the comic and exported 300 DPI PNG files of each page so you can add your own translated text using Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, MS Paint or any other program of your choosing.
If you create a translation, please share it with us! Post a comment here and we’ll link to your site and post a copy of your translation.
Another guest appearance on The Amp Hour!
Yesterday I recorded another episode of The Amp Hour, a weekly podcast about electronics (and a lot of other stuff) hosted by Chris Gammell and Dave Jones.
This is my fourth time on the show! I also found out that I am listed as a member of the show now. Whoohoo!
This is also the first time that Chris, Dave, and I have all been on the show together. It was awesome recording with both of those guys, and I think it was my best show yet!
Just before the show, we learned that the latest version of Skype allows all callers to talk at the same time. Go Skype!
OSHW Logo Announced, Eagle ULP available
On Thursday, the OSHW folks announced the results of their logo selection process.
The logo shown above, created by Macklin Chaffee, will soon become a regular feature of OSHW designs. You can expect to see it silkscreened onto printed circuit boards, CNC-cut into metal enclosures, and laser engraved onto just about anything.
It has been interesting to see OSHW supporters scramble to translate the logo into their preferred formats, including SVG (more variants here) and gEDA. It’s also interesting that the logo is so new that there doesn’t seem to be any consensus about how it should be displayed – filled or outline, with text or without.
Eagle users can thank Westfw for creating an Eagle ULP that will draw the OSHW logo with a configurable outside diameter. There is more information about the ULP on the OSHW forum. I haven’t tried it out yet, but I’m looking forward to adding the logo to my own open source hardware designs.