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More Flex Modules on Tindie
03/24/2017 at 05:11 • 0 commentsWe will be selling more of our designs on Tindie.
Over the next week, we will be adding much of the working designs on to our store - https://www.tindie.com/stores/Fyberlabs/
We will be adding more documentation here and some videos on youtube to demonstrate the Flex Module concept and various uses.
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Sales this weekend
11/26/2015 at 19:01 • 0 commentsWe are selling our Flex Modules on Tindie for 15% off - https://www.tindie.com/stores/Fyberlabs/
Use coupon code D721A61 at checkout!
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License discussion
08/18/2015 at 08:58 • 0 commentsLicensing is a pretty complicated discussion, and I wanted to try to clarify our position since the HackadayPrize requires license declaration.
We are releasing our SociACL and any related SAAS as AGPL to keep any usage of it open. I tend to prefer to use BSD license for drivers, but the MIT license is much simpler so for anything else that is code we make it, will default to that.
I have updated the general repositories to show the MIT license, though the driver repository will be a mix and the individual files will likely contain their own licenses that may be a version of the BSD. We will only publish OSI approved licenses and retain the license of any drivers or other software we have made any derivative from.
As for content on our blog content, images (excluding any servicemarks or trademarks), and anything else we will be using the following CC license:
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Pattern Improvements
08/01/2015 at 18:05 • 0 commentsOur last order from OSHPark I made the solder bridge spacing 10mil. These look much better and should be less of a challenge to solder. I'll be porting our castellation shape, solder bridges, and the Flex Module patterns to Eagle (and KiCAD) soon. We had a volunteer for some layout work and so I need to make our patterns more portable.
I am still working on some firmware updates, especially to our haptic boards as they are so popular and the current libraries from Adafruit and Precision Microdrives are limited in features and testing.
We got our initial TinyLED and rigid Light Square designs back from DirtyPCB and they look good. I'll test them and hopefully get some videos up of them soon. The accelerometer on the TinyLED is not going to work (I missed a couple of pins) on the initial design. I'll have a run ordered after testing that should work :).
I have a bunch of samples in from Arrow (thanks ST, TI) and Coilcraft, so the new Flex Module projects I put up should be coming along. Many of the light sensing boards will take a few revisions to get right as they will have source LEDs that need experimental placement to be reflected accurately. Some boards take only a day. Some take months of testing.
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Starting an adhoc open development program
07/29/2015 at 20:59 • 0 commentsWe have tried a few times to get volunteers together and build a community. It is difficult to do in open source software, and even more difficult with open hardware. We need help with software development and to that end, we are willing to provide hardware to those willing to help develop drivers and libraries for our Flex Modules.
See the page below for more information:
https://hackaday.io/page/1131-free-flex-modules
Thanks,
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Sewpads soldering demo
07/28/2015 at 02:38 • 0 commentsWe put up a simple guide on how to solder the Sewpads on to Flex Modules.
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Etching flexible PCB
07/23/2015 at 01:17 • 0 commentsCindy wrote up a post on how we current etch our own flexible circuit boards - https://medium.com/@cinlin/diy-flexible-circuit-boards-58c3794ed0cb .
We used the 64x Light Panel shown in the blogs for our Indiegogo campaign - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fyber-labs-light-square-flexible-rgb-led-panel/x/10833462#/story
In addition, you can see our first run of sewpads.
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New Indiegogo campaign for Light Square LED panel
07/22/2015 at 09:16 • 0 commentsHi, we have started an Indiegogo campaign to group buy for our 5" Light Square. We plan to use Epec and their new InstantQuote flexible PCB ordering system to keep the price low.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fyber-labs-light-square-flexible-rgb-led-panel/
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Design updates
07/16/2015 at 17:51 • 0 commentsI believe I have an improved design with the i2c solder bridges. Most i2c devices in the latest designs have a solder bridge to optionally enable the i2c pull up resistors. In addition, the address solder bridges are closer together to simplify soldering. Almost all sensor and output boards are now 2 layer, so that should lower costs in the long run. I have all the boards up on Tindie (other than some new ones we will be making projects for shortly). I am still testing the microcontrollers and finishing drivers. So those boards, though up on Tindie will be out of stock till I feel they are really ready.
I will be launching a tiny Indiegogo campaign to test interest in customizable flexible LED panels. The first up will be the 5" Light Square. We have some smaller rigid LED jewelry concepts that I will be experimenting with once the initial board run is delivered.
The mini EL works better than expected and I am very happy with its design.
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Updates
04/25/2015 at 04:23 • 0 commentsOK, well I have made most of the Flex Modules and I am still testing/finishing reference software. I am updating photos, information on the various Flex Module projects and placing them back on Tindie. We will be selling them through our own website as well hopefully in the near future to support WA customers. Cindy and I have a long list of demo projects we will be choosing to enter into the Hackaday Prize when we have time.