DorkbotPDX people doing strange things with electricity

repost: http://www.suspectdevices.com/blahg/arm/bacon/austin-likes-bacon/ ‎

Cameron and I had a refreshing change of attitude and latitude, last weekend.

Dorkbot Austin let us introduce them to the Maple Bacon which was well received.

Thanks DorkbotATX!

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For a while we have been working with a board that Cameron created called the Maple Bacon (http://github.com/soycamo/maplebacon), as well as a logging and wireless shield that we are calling the Baco-matic5000. The Maple Bacon is a clone of the LearLabs Maple Mini (http://leaflabs.com/docs/hardware/maple-mini.html). The point in recreating it was that LeafLabs did not stock it directly and that the only supplier was a chinese fab. It made more sense to redesign it and run it through the DorkbotPDX group pcb order and if we needed anything faster to go through Sunstone.

Been thinking a lot lately about abandoning the arduino cult inductions in their current form or at least abandoning the arduino platform itself. I may replace the dork-board with the tad and use that as the basis or I may go somewhere completely different.
I am not sure.
Most of my designs have been better suited to wiring (especially the wiring-S) and my active work is based on the maple platform which by years end should be merged with the wiring platform. If i offered a critique outlining what is wrong I am sure I would get smacked down so I will leave it up to whatever positive thoughts come from here. I think its time to stick a fork in it and turn it over.
What do you think?

"http://www.dorkbotpdx.org/workshop/arduino/cult_induction_rev8"

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I wish I had seen Ladyada's blog about getting off the fence about kicad before she closed comments to it. I just ran up kicad on my mac and its still not ready for prime time. The worst part of it is that the designs that are in kicad are stuck in kicad.

OLD SCHOOL!!!!
Introducing the TAD (a Through-hole Arduino compatible Design).

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During this quarter's induction we are going to try something different.