Free Stuff, July 2020–September 2020
July 2020
Anna from South Carolina had a lame quarantined birthday in July, so we sent her a present- a GreatFET One. She recently started taking cybersecurity classes and wants to learn about hardware hacking.
August 2020Ed from the Suffolk County (NY) Radio Club wrote to us in August to ask for free stuff for learning activities with their new members, mainly scouts and their parents. We sent a bunch of Throwing Star LAN Tap Kits, and hopefully they’ll be able to get together to use them soon.
September 2020Axell Macclawd is a security researcher in Brazil. He requested a HackRF One for...
scanlime053 – Active Stylus Teardown
https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=WpDrkVLskqk
What’s inside this “active stylus” and how does it work? No spoilers
Thanks to my patrons for making these videos possible.
Omega2 Lead Time Temporarily Increased
Updated: May 7, 2021
We want to make everyone aware the lead time for Omega2 volume orders has been temporarily increased to 16 weeks. The extended lead time is currently in effect and applies to all Omega2 devices when purchased directly from Onion:
Omega2 (OM-O2)Omega2+ (OM-O2P)Omega2S (OM-O2S)Omega2S+ (OM-O2SP)This temporary extension to the lead time is a result of the global microchip crisis.
We are working with our suppliers and manufacturing partners to minimize the impact this has on our customers.
What if I need units now?Visit our distributors Mouser and Digikey – they will continue to sell Omega2 devices in small and large quantities...
February Update: Show and Tell
Welcome to this month’s community update. As many of you know, we have now entered the Chinese New Year (CNY) period, which means that all manufacturing and related business activities have ground to a halt.
scanlime052 – Sewing Servo Mess
https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=XTcpJQxLMYE
Finally debugging an old project. It’s a mess but we can work with this.
The end of Community Editions
Today marks the end of the PinePhone Community Edition scheme. On behalf of myself, the Pine Store crew and the entire PINE64 community I’d like to thank the UBports Foundation, the postmarketOS project, Manjaro Linux, KDE e.
scanlime051 – Four Buttons
https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=ts8R0ky81bg
In which one button gets four stylish buddies, via forward and reverse engineering. Thanks to my patrons for their continued support.
We now ship also from the USA
Since I started manufacturing and selling nixie tubes and clocks, our customers from the USA formed the single biggest market for us. I remember years where we shipped 50% of our clocks to the USA. Today, I am excited to announce an improvement for our US customers – cooperation with Nicholas Stock from California. Nick will ship our clocks to US customers and also do some warranty and repair services. This change means faster delivery, no import process, lower risk of damaging the package and lower overall cost of the delivery.
Introducing NickSo, who is Nick? If you are a member...
Hellobox B1 satellite finder teardown
It is a very simple device for about $15. The main SoC is GX6605S. There is some limited info about this chip on C-SKY page and some technical docs at their tools repo. It communicates with a Bluetooth module TLSR8266 using UART. There is also 4MB SPI flash holding the whole bootloader called GxLoader, Linux kernel and filesystem with the main app. The last important chip is RDA5815M which handles the RF to I/Q conversion. In the future I plan to add an USB-to-Ethernet adapter and repurpose it as an cheap opensource SAT>IP server.
full-dump-b1DownloadReply: The software of my dreams (3D to 3D capture and world reconstruction)
A reply to Ross Scott's "The Software of my dreams" video, on capturing game 3D worlds so they can be explored in different ways. Includes thoughts on technical and ethical directions, as well as too many game screenshots.