I'm pleased to announce that the new
Garbee and Garbee
web store offering products designed by the
Altus Metrum community is now open for business!
Rocketry folks, please note that I refuse to sell anything that isn't in
stock, so if you want
TeleMetrum
boards you'll have to wait a few more days. Keith and I just weren't happy
with the GPS receiver performance using the patch antennas we selected for
version 1.0, and I'm changing to a slightly better (and more expensive)
antenna that we expect will make everyone happier. Parts are due by Friday,
and so with any luck you should be able to buy TeleMetrum boards and starter
kits early next week.
In the meantime, we have
TeleDongle
boards and other accessories in stock now and ready to ship. Last week,
Steve Conklin became our first customer by showing so much enthusiasm for
TeleDongle over snacks at a conference we all attended for work that we pointed
him to the web store under construction and he has already posted an
enthusiastic blog entry about his plans!
More as it happens!
Bdale has just opened up the
Garbee and Garbee web store
to sell
Altus Metrum electronics including
TeleMetrum
and
TeleDongle.
The TeleMetrum boards aren t quite ready to ship, so they re marked as
out of stock for another couple of days. That s because we ve
decided to switch GPS antennas to improve GPS reception and we won t
have enough of those until Friday to start shipping boards. The TM
boards themselves are working great and we ve flown them several
times.
We ve already sold a couple of TeleDongle boards for use without
TeleMetrum. These boards contain the CC1111 transceiver chip along
with an 8-pin connector that can be used for USB, SPI or serial
communication. This adds long-range wireless digital
communication to almost any project.
Steve Conklin has posted his plans for
these boards. We sell TeleDongle as either bare boards or packaged in
a pretty blue box with a USB cable attached.
All of the hardware designs are licensed under the
TAPR open hardware license
and software under the GPL. All of the tools
used to design the hardware and build the software are also free
software (already packaged for Debian, of course) so you can take these designs
and do whatever you want with them.