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

 

 

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