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Sneak Peak - ULTiM8x8 LED Panel System
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Coming Soon...The AllPixelMini!
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New Library: ESP Serial WiFi Manager
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Exciting Updates!
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New Site! New Forum! Kickstarter Progress!
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AllPixel Week 1 Update
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AllPixel Update - Staff Pick!
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We've Kicked It!
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Stay tuned...
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NC Maker Faire 2014: A Huge Success
Ultimate, Modular, No Solder, RGB LED Panel System. Coming Soon. Get pumped. crowdsupply.com/maniacal-labs-wyolum/ultim8x8 https://youtu.be/QYNyK__wYmM
Good News, Everyone! We’ve been toying around with the idea of updating the design for our AllPixel LED Controler for a while now, and we’re making great progress. The image above is our first prototype, fresh from MacroFab.
Read more…The ESP8266 Arduino package provides a great and familiar to use ecosystem for developing code on the chip. However, most examples for WiFi network connection and management involve building and uploading new code every time you want to change the network settings. That’s just more than should be required if you want to simply connect an existing and complete project to a new network. A forthcoming project in which we plan to use a large number of the Adafruit ESP8266 Feather boards for was going to be far to cumbersome to manage if we had to upload new code not only to change the WiFi network but to set static IPs.
Read more…It’s been a little over a month since the Kickstarter for our AllPixel finished and things are progressing nicely. We’ve certainly learned a lot about communicating with an overseas manufacturer and designing a product for mass production. Nothing a few tiny tweaks couldn’t fix. Our goal has always been to deliver the best possible product. The final boards should be going into production within the next week or two! During the campaign, we set a stretch goal of providing multiple driver support to BiblioPixel.
Read more…It is a bit crazy to see how far we’ve come since Maniacal Labs started by launching the Binary Epoch Clock back in 2013. Well, unlike the quick success we’ve had with the AllPixel, we just recently sold out of the Epoch Clock kits. But that allowed us to do something we’ve wanted to for some time now… ditch our web store and redesign the site. So we hope you like the new, cleaner design!
Read more…It has been an amazing first week! 21 Days to go and we are already at over 200% funding. Thanks so much to all our supporters! We’ve also announced some new stretch goals, so check those out. We feel certain we will hit the first goal in no time! One of the coolest things so far though is that we were featured on the Atmel blog! It’s a great honor to get some recognition from such an awesome company.
Read more…First of all, the AllPixel Kickstarter has been going great! Fully funded in less than 48 hours, chosen as a Kickstarter Staff Pick on the third day, and currently at over 130% funded and 150 backers… with 26 days left! We didn’t want to bog down the main page with really technical details about how the AllPixel works, but we thought we should give some more background. The Hardware At the core, the AllPixel is not much different from devices like the Arduino Leonardo, Arduino Pro Micro, or Teensy 2.
Read more…We’re proud to announce our first Kickstarter! We’ve been quietly preparing this for months and can’t wait to see what everyone thinks. Check out the Kickstarter page for all the juicy details.
We’ve been a little quiet lately. But have no fear, it’s only so that we could focus 100% on our next great endeavor. 1 year of work. 7 prototypes. But oh, so many pixels. Something awesome coming on November 9th. Stay tuned.
Dan and I just got back from NC Maker Faire 2014 here in Raleigh and our brains are still buzzing with all of the awesomeness of the day. Many, many thanks to the great staff and volunteers of this years Faire for creating an awesome experience for all, both maker and attendee. For those that we had wonderful conversations with and are now just checking out our website, you can find more details about all of the projects we were showing off today at our NC Maker Faire 2014 page.
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