<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> From: sverma@sfsu.edu</span><br><div>> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:36:45 -0800<br>> To: martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com<br>> CC: grassroots@lists.laptop.org; olpc-open@lists.laptop.org; adborden@live.com; noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net; olpc-sf@lists.laptop.org; alanjas@hotmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting<br>> <br>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Martin Abente<br>> <martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> > +1 Is there any way to buy an already assembled one? From you or anyone else<br>> > inside the project.<br>> ><br>> <br>> One of the things I want to explore is to see if we can produce these<br>> locally in San Francisco. Hence the cc to noisebridge.</div><div><br></div><div>Good!</div><div><br></div><div>Now we are using the service of Seeedstudio [1] that makes a good boards.</div><div>(Only the board, without any component). Each one for 3 US Dollars if use</div><div>the standar shipping.</div><div><br></div><div>The others components are "low cost".. the most expensive is the PIC18F4550</div><div>but you can found for 4 US Dolars in ebay .</div><div>And the RJ45 ports.. I'm not sure of the cost of that.</div><div><br></div><div>One clock of 20 mhz ~ 1 dolar.. </div><div><br></div><div>14 resistences ~ less than 1 dolar</div><div><br></div><div>some capacitors.. two buttons.. and one USB port (type B)</div><div><br></div><div>that is all! <span style="font-size: 12pt;">The finished board:</span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Archivo:Usb4butia_up_view.jpg">http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Archivo:Usb4butia_up_view.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/fusion-pcb-service-p-835.html?cPath=185" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/fusion-pcb-service-p-835.html?cPath=185</a></div><div><br>> <br>> cheers,<br>> Sameer<br>> <br>> ><br>> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn<br>> > <alanjas@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> >><br>> >> +1<br>> >><br>> >> That wiki entry is a bit old.. Now we don't use Arduino, we use the<br>> >> USB4Butia.<br>> >> USB4Butia can be home-made build with low cost materials [1]<br>> >> That means USB4Butia is a "truly free (as in freedom)" board [2]<br>> >><br>> >> [1]<br>> >> http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/USB4buti%C3%A1_tutorial<br>> >><br>> >> [2]<br>> >> http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/technology/usb4butia_a_truly_free_as_in_freedom_input_output_board.html<br>> >><br>> >> Regards!<br>> >><br>> >> Alan<br>> >><br>> >> ________________________________<br>> >> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:35:22 -0800<br>> >> From: sverma@sfsu.edu<br>> >> To: adborden@live.com<br>> >> CC: olpc-open@lists.laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org;<br>> >> grassroots@lists.laptop.org; noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net;<br>> >> olpc-sf@lists.laptop.org<br>> >> Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting<br>> >><br>> >><br>> >> I'll bring the Butia robot.<br>> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Robotics#Buti.C3.A1_Project<br>> >> Anybody from Noisebridge (cc'd) interested in joining?<br>> >> Cheers,<br>> >> Sameer<br>> >> On Feb 12, 2013 9:09 AM, "Aaron Borden" <adborden@live.com> wrote:<br>> >><br>> >> Hello,<br>> >><br>> >> OLPC San Francisco will be hosting this month's meeting on Saturday,<br>> >> February 23rd, from 10AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835 Market<br>> >> Street, Room 553.<br>> >><br>> >> Everyone is welcome to join us for our monthly meeting! We'll be<br>> >> discussing the latest in OLPC events and give updates on our local (and<br>> >> global) projects. There will be plenty of XO laptops with the latest<br>> >> builds to play around with, too. Please post with any additional agenda<br>> >> items.<br>> >><br>> >> --<br>> >> Aaron<br>> >><br>> >> _______________________________________________<br>> >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br>> >><br>> >><br>> >> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education<br>> >> Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br>> >><br>> >> _______________________________________________<br>> >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br>> ><br>> ><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br></div> </div></body> </html>