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3D Printing Services Now Offered!
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PrismaChron Update
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Direct Credit Card Payments Now Accepted!
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One Week Left on the PrismaChron Fundraiser!
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Announcing the PrismaChron!
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Easy Guide Printing and PDF Download
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Coming Soon!
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Introducing: EpochPOV
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Challenge Accepted! Binary Epoch Clock 1D Pong Mode
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Epoch Clock Kit Review on tronixstuff!
We are excited to announce that we now offer 3D printing services! We’ve had a MakerBot Replicator 2 for a while now, which we absolutely love, and now we want to share it. This is a bit of an experiment, so we’re trying it all out via MakeXYZ; a great community of 3D printer owners and those who need 3D printed items. It typically deals with connecting local people, but we will ship to anywhere in the USA.
Read more…First of all, many thanks to those who supported our PrismaChron Tindie fundraiser! Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough interest in this particular project to reach our funding goal. So we won’t, at this time, be making the PrismaChron, but it was not a worthless experience for us. We learned a great deal in the process. While crowd-funding didn’t work out this time, we still see great potential in it, given the right product.
Read more…Good news! Paypal is no longer the only option to purchase our kits! We’ve gotten some feedback that, even though you don’t have to have a PayPal account to checkout in our store, not everyone is keen on the purchase being processed by them. So, effective immediately, you can pay directly via all major credit cards. For the security concerned, have no fear, our checkout process is fully protected by SSL encryption and even we don’t have direct access to any of your credit card information as it’s all handled by our processor, Stripe.
Read more…First of all, many, many thanks to those who have supported the PrismaChron already! It’s been an interesting first week and we’re part of the way there, but we still have a ways to go. Unfortunately, if we don’t hit the minimum number of pre-orders, we won’t be able to make the kits cost effective. So we are asking for a little more of your help. If you can, please share the following link on the social media of your choosing: https://www.
Read more…We are very happy to announce our latest kit, the PrismaChron! The PrismaChron Clock is our take on time as color. The display consists of three RGB LEDs, one each for seconds, minutes and hours. As each value progresses through time, its LED slowly fades through the spectrum from red to violet, and everywhere in between. Just like the Binary Epoch Clock, the PrismaChron is fully Arduino compatible, open source, and ready to be hacked.
Read more…Just a small update to the site, but hopefully one that will be useful. We have added the ability to easily print and download (PDF format) our product guides. Look for this icon at the top right on the Guides pages for our various products: Click hear on the Guide pages to customize and print (or save to PDF)
Read more…CC_Teaser Good news everyone! In just a few days, on Monday, November 11th, we’ll be launching a new kit! We’re going to be doing things a little differently this time and will be launching it as a pre-sale over on Tindie.
Read more…We would like to introduce a new product. Okay, not really a new product, but a completely different use for the Binary Epoch Clock Kit that we already sell. We’ve been hinting at it for a while now but we are proud to finally announce EpochPOV, a custom firmware that turns your Binary Epoch Clock into a fully functional Persistence of Vision - or POV for short - display with a 32 pixel resolution!
Read more…Last night I got to show off our Binary Epoch Clock kit on Adafruit’s excellent Show-And-Tell weekly Hangout. There was a great turnout with tons of cool projects and I’d like to thank Adafruit again for letting me join in. Check out the whole show. There were a ton of great projects (I’m at 2:26): Towards the end of my time, Limor Fried noted that the only thing it needs now is a 1D pong mode and I am rarely one to pass up such a challenge… So this morning I came up with this:
Read more…John over at tronixstuff.com has a review of our Epoch Clock kit. He offers a great walk-through of the un-boxing and building experiences, complete with pictures. He also offers a great explanation of Unix time. A big thanks to John for his consideration of our product! And, of course, we’re glad he liked it! (tronixstuff.com is based in Melbourne, Australia and was started in 2010 by John Boxall. The site features electronics kit reviews, Arduino tutorials, and other assorted projects.
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