Monthly Archives: January 2011

Folks This year is not what I expected. I’ve worked for myself for twenty years, and until a few short weeks ago my working life and career has always been providing design and troubleshooting services for financial trading systems. My … Continue reading →

OK, so I got up at 5:30am today and it’s midnight now, but in an effort to get as many boards ready as possible for the next sale (around 4/5/6 Feb) I had a marathon session today. 3,000 parts is … Continue reading →

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