Store Now Open!
Deven 
Our web-store is now open. Here’s the quick FAQ answers:
- We will ship anywhere within the US
- We will not ship international (yet)
- We will be adding a couple more products soon
- Shipping is fixed. 1 or 100 items is the same price
- USPS Standard is $2.50 per order
- USPS Priority is $6.50 per order
Upcoming Hackerspace Build-Off!
Full details have not been release yet; but this will be open to the public (as long as you fill out the release form). Here are the details so far:
- 5 Hackerspaces will compete in a professionally recorded web-only event.
- theTransistor has already been selected as one of these groups.
- The build-off should start the first week of August, but the exact dates are still unknown.
- The build-off will last 2-3 Weeks.
- Participants will not be required to show up every day.
- The build-off will revolve around a task that will be announced on day 1 to all participants.
- Each space will be given a budget to complete the task.
- As far as I know there are no prizes / etc for ‘winning’. This will be more about learning and doing.
- Participants will not be required to be a member of the hackerspace or pay any entry fees to help.
- Participants appearing on camera will need to sign a basic agreement with the producing company. ( Very basic: you aren’t allowed to talk about the results / etc. until after it ‘airs’, they aren’t responsibly if you blow up / melt / etc.)
- You DON’T need any special skills; this should be about the community. Anyone who would like to can participate.
If this interests you please stop by this weekend (2010.07.31, 6:00pm) for more details and to sign up. This will be a great opportunity to get together and help with a project.
Upcoming group project: MAME CABINET!
Project the first: MAME Cabinet(s)
theTransistor has been commissioned to create a MAME cabinet for a local business. Their employees will spend many a break using this machine. ( All games will be licensed of coarse. )
We will have a parts budget of around $1000.00 to complete this build, and we will cover the entire process from the ground up. Here is an estimated timeline:
Week 1 (Jul. 17): Planning and Research
Week 2 (Jul. 24): Design the cabinet in Autocad
Week 3 (Jul. 31): Order parts / Prepare artwork in Illustrator / Photoshop
Week 4 (Aug. 7): Get parts back from CNC, Build cabinet
Week 5 (Aug. 14): Internal Assemblies
Week 6 (Aug. 21): Final Assemblies / Artwork Installation / Completion
The panels will be CNCed, we will order professional artwork. This will be a good 1st group project for the space. Come be a part!
This project will be open to the public. Come and watch or help. Just show up to Arduino / Electronics night and ask. Currently Saturdays 6pm to 9pm.
Diavolino – As sweet as it is EVIL! BWAHAHAHAAHA
We recently got a shipment of the new Diavolino PCB’s from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. We coupled the Diavolino with one of our Minimalist Kits and a couple spare parts from around the lab. We assembled it in a ‘permanent for shields’ / ‘tinkering’ format
I would suggest a couple changes for version 2, but we can save that for another day. All in all this is a pretty sweet board and it’s PERFECT for most of our Arduino projects. ( I won’t post the downsides as much of it may be personal preference, and this is a good board. )
Now go visit EMSL and order a couple! If you need the FTDI programmer I suggest Modern Device, though the programmer at EMSL should do fine.