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Here is our newsletter #3:

- Olivier's design bottom PCB has been successfully tested & verified! This will therefore be our final version. If you haven't seen it already, you can check out the Hackaday article that also details how all the pieces fit together.

- We'll receive Olivier's design updated top PCB in the coming days, which uses reverse mounted LEDs and the PCB FR4 to produce a nice blue glow (as seen in the HaD article). This particular revision consists in a few tracks change and (of course) a soldermask color change

- By the end of the week we'll receive a serigraphed front panel which should give a slick professional look to the Mooltipass (see attached picture). We had to send dozens of emails to find someone that could do it!

- An updated mechanical design will be produced next week, as there were still a few details to iron out to have a better final assembly

- I've started hand soldering several prototypes that will be shipped out to our active contributors

- Speaking of contributors, some of them might leave the project due to the recent Hackaday space contest (which is completely understandable). So if you have some time to spare and want to contribute to the Mooltipass please send me an email.

- Hopefully we'll switch our complete USB related code in the coming days. This will allow us to be driverless for all (most?) OS out there

- 20 cards for each of the first two smart card arts will be manufactured by the end of the week

As you may have gathered, hopefully in a few days all the mechanics and hardware will be considered as final. We'll then start contacting beta testers to organize a small production run.

Again, if you're a firmware developer and have some spare time... please send me an email :)

Cheers,

Mathieu

Hey everyone,

After several weeks of intensive work our dear contributors finally sent us the smart card designs they came up with!

Please vote for your favorite design here : http://picompete.com/contest/1349/mooltipass-smart-card-design-competition/

Please note that you can vote on max 3 photos.

Once again, I'd like to thank everyone that took some of their time to work on this project!

Cheers,

Mathieu

We just assembled the top PCB and are currently writing an Hackaday article about our observations.... stay tuned!

Given the project is currently at quite an advanced stage, I know it must be quite difficult for people discovering Mooltipass to quickly understand what this is all about. So where to begin?

For a quick description of the project, have a look at the official github repository: https://github.com/limpkin/mooltipass

For the first Hackaday post explaining the project, have a look there: http://hackaday.com/2013/12/06/developed-on-hackaday-lets-build-some-hardware/

Hackaday post explaining the main electronic components: http://hackaday.com/2013/12/18/developed-on-hackaday-first-version-of-the-hardware/

Hackaday post containing the first picture of a functioning prototype: http://hackaday.com/2014/01/12/developed-on-hackaday-we-have-pixels/

Hackaday post showing the design we're currently working on: http://hackaday.com/2014/02/11/developed-on-hackaday-the-current-project-state/

If you have any question, you're welcome to leave a comment here!

Unfortunately most of the mooltipass discussions are happening in the dedicated google group (link put in the left bar)... so you guys will have to force me put updates here :).

We just finished designing the schematics for Olivier's design main PCB. Even though the other PCB just contains all the capacitive touch sensing stuff... designing its layout may get challenging to get good performances.

Hopefully, we hope to have a fully functional prototype in one month or two. On the firmware side, things are progressing smoothly and the low level libraries should be ready in a few weeks.

I do look forward to posting pretty pictures here!