Green C.H.I.P.s

ALPHA C.H.I.P. ADDRESS CONFIRMATIONS

Kernel Hackers!!! September means you get your Alpha C.H.I.P.s!.  Shipping Alpha C.H.I.P.s means we need our KHB ADDRESS CONFIRMATIONS.  If we owe you an Alpha C.H.I.P., you will receive an email to confirm your address through BackerKit. Keep an eye on your inboxes! (and if you haven’t been through BackerKit yet, now would be a great time)

C.H.I.P. GOES OLD SCHOOL

While walking around the block to get coffee one day, we chanced upon a relic. Thrown away and forgotten.

One man’s trash. Now our pleasure to treasure.

An Apple /// monitor!!! But will it work with C.H.I.P.? (hint: yes! see the video!)

C.H.I.P.’s composite video output means it can be used to with countless old devices.  So hold onto your old tube monitors and televisions C.H.I.P.sters! Old tech is about to get new life!

 

TWITTER, TWEETS, AND THE LIKE

Are you on Twitter? So are we! Find us and follow along.  We are@NextThingCo.

A sample tweet.

Stay tuned!  M.M.M.T.C. (much much more to come)

╭( ・ㅂ・)و – Everyone at @NextThingCo

 

 

Go Go C.H.I.P. Alpha!

ALPHA C.H.I.P.s ARE BEING MANUFACTURED!

Our candles are burning from both ends and we’re leaving so many sheep uncounted, but Alpha C.H.I.P.s are being manufactured!  Gus, our ferociously brave honeybadger, has worked tirelessly to make sure our beloved Kernel Hacker Backers (KHBs for short) get their Alpha C.H.I.P.s in September.

This is Gus’ happy face.

A C.H.I.P.s BEST FRIEND IS ITS SOFTWARE

Wynter, Alex, and the Free Electrons team have been making great strides with C.H.I.P.s software, but our KHBs are our Marines, our StarC.H.I.P. Troopers.  The first users to help C.H.I.P. become all that it can be.  C.H.I.P.’s greatest strength really is its community, so we can’t wait to get the KHBs their Alpha C.H.I.P.s.

Wynter ponders tools and tool-making and is Too Legit to Quit.

HARD AT WORK HARDWARE TESTING

Manufacturing C.H.I.P. at scale requires tools and automation to ensure we’re shipping the functional C.H.I.P.s everyone expects. To that end, Gus and Wynter have designed a series of hardware fixtures and software tools to put C.H.I.P. through its paces.

Gus approves of the flashing fixture prototype he made.

DO YOU TWITTER?

We Twitter too!  Find us @nextthingco!  Tweet at us! We’ll tweet back!

A sample NTC Tweet.

Much much more to come! (M.M.M.T.C.) Stay tuned!

╭( ・ㅂ・)و – Everyone at @NextThingCo

 

 

 

 

C.H.I.P.ing Away!

Things are getting hot at the NTC office. Because it’s summer. Because our team is growing. And because this C.H.I.P. project of ours is HEATING UP!

Wynter, Alex, Free Electrons, and Jason (our wireless expert extraordinaire) are pushing C.H.I.P.’s software tools forward in big ways.  Big ways like C.H.I.P.’s WiFi is working!

MEET ARI!

She’s joining the team and is a master of “all things non-technical” (her words).She wants to get you your C.H.I.P.s and she HATES being tardy.

Ari has dextrous eyebrows.

ATTENTION KERNEL HACKERS

We’re stoked with the response to the open sourcing of C.H.I.P.  Your ideas and comments are why we love Open Source.  For all you Kernel Hackers and eager Chipsters digging through the docs, we’ve set up a forum on our website at bbs.nextthing.co

Let’s take the technical discussions there, where answers can be easily sorted and turned into a resource for everyone.  Check it out!

As always, the latest and greatest C.H.I.P. documentation will be available (and current) on GitHub.  (Good catch last update, Ricky.)

If DockerHub is your bag, Wynter has a fully automated C.H.I.P. SDK now available as a docker container.

Wynter is coding…

FOLLOW ALONG ON TWITTER!

In addition to Kickstarter updates, we’re posting micro-updates on Twitter.  Want to be the most up to date on C.H.I.P.’s progress?  Follow @nextthingco!

Much much more to come! (M.M.M.T.C.) Stay tuned!

\(•◡•)/ – Everyone at @NextThingCo

 

 

 

 

Holy C.H.I.P! It’s C.H.I.P!!!

Dearest C.H.I.P.sters,

We. Have. Been. Busy.

Gus and Vanessa with Production C.H.I.P.s. Yes, you read that correctly.

THE FIRST PRODUCTION C.H.I.P.s

A brave honeybadger, not to be deterred from his honeycomb, Gus scurried to China to produce the first production C.H.I.P.s!  From here we’ll make final design decisions before kicking off a limited run for our Kernel Hacker Backers.  Would you like to know more? Check out the video!

OSCON 2015

Living a childhood dream, Dave spoke at the Open Source Convention in Portland. Detailing the journey from OTTO to C.H.I.P. and ignoring all manner of practical advice, he demoed both products. Live.

C.H.I.P. IS OPEN SOFTWARE!

Meanwhile, back in Oakland, Wynter, Alex and the Free Electrons team have been hacking away at C.H.I.P.s software, opening up the software repositories. Take a look!

Alex and Wynter love open sourcing!

Want to help with C.H.I.P.’s software?  Just miss the Kernel Hacker reward tier? Visit kernel.nextthing.co and let us know how you can help!

CHIP IS OPEN HARDWARE!

C.H.I.P.’s design files are licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike.  That means you can download all the files to build your own C.H.I.P. modify it and use it as a starting point for your own projects! Git the files @ http://docs.nextthing.co/

The folks at Make Magazine put together a nice summary of C.H.I.P.’s open source status – http://makezine.com/2015/07/22/with-linux-and-creative-commons-the-9-chip-computer-reveals-its-open-source-details/

INTRODUCING MEGA C.H.I.P.

We needed a way to show off all of C.H.I.P.’s components to an auditorium full of people so Sharps took a break from assembling OTTO to build MEGA C.H.I.P.Like his older (and MUCH smaller) brother, MEGA C.H.I.P. is also fully open source!  You can download the plans on Github – https://github.com/NextThingCo/MegaCHIP-Hardware

Tim O’Reilly holds C.H.I.P. Not to be outdone, Dave holds MEGA C.H.I.P.

The banana is still for scale.

Much much more to come! (M.M.M.T.C.)

\(•◡•)/ – Everyone at @NextThingCo

 

 

BackerKit to the Future: Part 3

Hey, C.H.I.P.sters!!!

BACKERKIT LOCKDOWN IMMINENT

A GIF to drive the lockdown point home.

 

Today is the last day to add items to your pledge through BackerKit. As of 8 PM PDT (thanks Philippe!), the opportunity to pledge for additional items will be closed. This is it.

We will be processing payment on BackerKit additions next week to move full steam ahead on getting you your C.H.I.P.s.  We’ll remind you again to confirm your address before shipping starts, so even if you move, we can still get you your C.H.I.P.

Things are moving forward in big ways, and we can’t wait to show everyone the process.  Where we’re going, we don’t need roads…because Gus put offroad tires on the tuk tuk.

Great Scott. So much NTC coffee. Enough to last forever, if we’re GIFing fourth dimensionally.

Gus, found wearing a tiny pink half cowboy hat. Yes. He does feel lucky. Punk.

 

\(•◡•)/ – Everyone at @NextThingCo