oshpark Archives - The Tinusaur Project

Almost at the end of our Indiegogo campaign

Posted on 2018-05-072022-01-01 by neven

We’re almost at the end of our Indiegogo campaign and as you might be aware there is a delay in the production of the kits.

At TINUSAUR we strive to achieve the higher quality of the products. Unfortunately, while making the PCBs, the most important part of our boards, and working with some new suppliers, we were not happy with the quality of the production. Luckily, the great guys at OSHPARK jumped in and helped us get the PCB we need at the cost we could afford to keep the price points of our product low and affordable.

Good news – all the PCBs arrived a few days ago. We’ve assembled few pieces of them to make sure everything is fine and, with the exception of few minor glitches, all is good and ready to go.

This week we are packaging the broads and the components.

Next week we will start shipping the first batches of kits to the supporters.

All parts and boards arrived

Posted on 2014-03-092022-01-06 by neven

Dear friends, I’m glad to inform you that all the parts and the boards finally arrived.

So we’re ready to offer the Starter Kit to those that are interested.

Boards were produced by OSHPark – they look great, as usual.

We also received a small batch from SeeedStudio – cheaper but still looks good.

We are now preparing the purchasing option – a PayPal button or may something more complex – we haven’t decided yet. There is this “Start your own online store front” list of options that we consider looking at. Any feedback or shared experience we will appreciate very much.

Initially, we will put up for sale a very small batch – 20 or so packages – we don’t know what the interest will be, but we have the capacity to ship about 80 more.

February: Quick update

Posted on 2014-02-142022-01-01 by neven

This is quick update for what is happening in the lab.

The design of the board is pretty much final. We consider this as release candidate marked as RC1 – it probably won’t change much or not at all. It is available on 123d.circuits.io at this address: http://123d.circuits.io/circuits/116696. You can order the PCBs there or if you prefer from OSHPark at this address: https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/L6DiChNz.
We have a shield-like proto board now, very preliminary design. It will allow you to solder some components on it and then put it on top of the Tinusaur Board – very much like any other shield-like board. It is available on OSHPark at this address: https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/2zuAJJGZ.
All the parts for the Tinusaur Starter kit were ordered from our suppliers. We hope everything to be in our office (most of them already arrived) by the end of the month. Will post more information about it here and on our Twitter/Facebook/etc.
The boards for the Tinusaur Starter were ordered from OSHPark – great quality, no doubt. We also ordered some boards from Seeed Studio to see how’s their quality.

And by the way, our project was featured on OSHPark Blog, here’s the link … http://blog.oshpark.com/2014/02/staff-picks-for-the-week-of-2-february-2014/. Very glad to see that people are interested in this project.

As follow up to our first Tutorial 001 we are planing to put another one – Tutorial 002, probably about how to connect a push-button to the board and receive input from it.

The Tinusaur boards are now available for purchase from 3rd parties

Posted on 2013-12-162022-01-01 by neven

The design of the board will not change very much so the prototypes should be considered useful.

Boards are available for purchasing from the following 3rd parties:

OSH Park – Tinusaur Proto v0.1 m2.
123D.Circuits.io – Tinusaur Proto v0.1 m2.

When you go to these websites look for the link for ordering boards.

This information will be permanently available and constantly updated at the Where to buy page.

New PCB Designs Sent to Fab

Posted on 2013-12-092022-01-01 by neven

This is the Tinusaur Proto v0.1 m2 that I just finished and sent it to OSHPark for fabrication.

You can look at the latest schematics on http://123d.circuits.io at this address: http://123d.circuits.io/circuits/66662.

Below are the schematics and the PCB design, for reference.

The new prototype PCBs just arrived from OSHPark

Posted on 2013-11-302022-01-01 by neven

The new prototype PCBs just arrived from OSHPark – great quality as usual.

I noticed that there are only few things that I may change before call it official: slightly move some components around so they fit better and become easier to solder; add one jumper for switch on/off the optional button cell battery on the bottom of the board; make some pads and holes larger; … and few other things.

The schematics available on 123d.circuits.io website at this address: http://123d.circuits.io/circuits/58269.