Fwd: THS Needs Your Help

[Budi Mulyo]

FYI:

THS is Tokyo Hackerspace, and they have smoking deals for you!

http://tokyohackerspace.org/

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From: Garrett deRosset
Date: Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:51 AM
Subject: THS Needs Your Help

Dear Hackerspaces around the world,

I am contacting you today to ask for your help. The Tokyo Hackerspace has got to move.  While we won't refuse a donation, what we are really trying to do, is to let everyone know that we have a supply of Chumby boards, discounted and priced to sell, that would fully cover our temporary jump in expenses. A while back, Safecast picked up a case of Chumby HackerBoards, which they intended to use in crowd sourced radiation monitoring across northern Japan. Design constraints changed, and so Safecast was left holding onto the Chumbys. 

So, here we have an opportunity to get your hands on a Chumby HackerBoard for the LOWEST PRICE ANYWHERE!
Buy one and help us out of a jam. Buy two. You will still be saving a lot of money!

Please visit http://www.tokyohackerspace.org/en/product/chumby-hackerboard-support-ths-moving-efforts for the details.  

I have a strong belief in Hackerspace solidarity.  I hope you do to.  

Thank you.  

[Pat Tressel]

Would be nice to support THS and that is one impressive board.  Only question is -- can anyone tell if that is the beta version or the current version?

-- Pat

[Paul Danset]

Looks like the THS version is the Chumby 1.0 board:

https://www.adafruit.com/products/278

Below is a page with the Chumby beta board.  Note the IDC connector on the edge of the board, next to a USB connector, is smaller on the beta (missing about 6 pins) :

https://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/08/30/new-product-chumby-hacker-board-beta/

This is a cool board by the famous "Bunnie" Huang one of the first guys who hacked the original Xbox.

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/04/30/makes-exclusive-interview-with-andrew-bunnie-huang-the-end-of-chumby-new-adventures/

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/16/bunnie-huang-geiger-counter/

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[Paul Danset]

Looks like Bunnie is working on interesting projects since his departure from Chumby:

• A new open source robotics platform codenamed ‘Kovan.’ The device was commissioned by an educational organization, but once it is released to public I will publish the design under an open source license. It’s currently in beta testing with the customer. The platform is purpose-built to enable vision-enhanced autonomous robotics projects, combining an 800 MHz linux computer with four 1.5A motor drivers, 8 ADC channels, 8 5V-tolerant digital I/Os, 4 servo drivers, an integrated Li-Ion charger, and an FPGA for enhanced computer vision processing capabilities. The device will be released sometime this fall.

• A new open-source high performance hardware platform codenamed ‘Novena’. I won’t disclose too many details since it’s in early stages, but the platform promises up to quad-core 1GHz ARM processing with up to 4GB of DDR3 memory. You could, for example, use it to build your very own open source laptop. I expect more details to emerge before the end of the year.