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Folks, I now have received all the parts for over 500 dongles. In addition I am seeing a new assembler tomorrow who I believe will be able to help us. Howard

There’s a poll over on the FUNcube Yahoo Group set up to identify the level of interest in the FCD so that we can see if we can gauge better the anticipated demand over the next few weeks and months. … Continue reading →

Folks. 104 Dongles were originally sold in total. One unit was refunded after a buyer changed their mind a short time afterwards, so a total of 103 were sold net. That extra Dongle is now on eBay where you can bid on … Continue reading →

…and,as a bonus, your name or callsign etched into the FUNcube satellite! I had a punter change their mind a few minutes after the sale on Friday. Rather than putting into the next batch, I am making it available on … Continue reading →

The new batch from the manufacturer took quite a bit of effort to make work. Here’s a taster of the kitchen lab where the work is done. Starts with an overview of the equipment, at 4:25 I show how to … Continue reading →

Folks Although I have 100 built boards from the manufacturer, I am only getting about a 40% yield out of the box. It took me over a day to figure out what was going wrong. It turns out that about … Continue reading →

Folks The next sale will be on Friday 14 January 2011 at 20:00 UTC. Sorry, sold out again. We will let you know the next sale time. Howard

Folks David Barber has very helpfully taken time to provide a couple of guides for the FUNcube Dongle here. Howard

Folks, There are a lot of posts asking to be put onto a reserve list. There is no such list I’m afraid. The reason is simple: the overhead for us right now would be very high. Imagine, let’s say, there … Continue reading →

Folks When building the FCDs, I found a few failure modes where it meant I had to go back and debug a few of the boards, and I thought I’d share them with you. All of these are manufacturing failures … Continue reading →