Kickstarter project complete
I’m very happy to have shipped the last of the 40 TinyTimer units today for my KickStarter backers. That closes the TinyTimer Kickstarter project. I also took a video and documented a revised assembly process that is about 30% shorter. You can watch the video here: [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8qLqoKZ6c[/embedyt]
Reset powers down my USB Port!
I recently had a question from a customer who had purchased TinyTimer KS and was concerned that when they pressed the reset button it would power down the USB Port on the computer. This post addresses what is going on and why that happens. In the Arduino environment reset generates a condition that looks like […]
Product assembly and testing update for TinyTimer KickStarter Edition
I completed assembly of 12 TTKS units over the weekend. My initial testing was that 8 units worked as expected. 2 units needed the filter capacitor on the power supply changed from a 1uf to 4.7uf 50v electrolytic capacitor. I’m unsure as to why these two units were seeing more noise, but it was a […]
Updated manual for TinyTimer KickStarter
I updated the manual for TTKS today. There were two important changes based on observations during assembly of units. The first observation was that the USB-B pins were susceptible to being bent and needed to be carefully aligned prior to insertion. While USB-B is a nice durable connector, I will be thinking hard about it […]
More Azure Headaches
Microsoft Azure is nice, but I’m beginning to doubt it. I found that the server hosting Nanohawk.com was unresponsive again. My fault for not dealing with it sooner. I had gotten an alert from Pingdom a few days ago, but thought it was an anomoly. It refused to restart via the portal. I wound up […]
Tinytimer completes – shipping
This week TinyTimer Kickstarter Edition completed. A minor adjustment to the components was needed to provide more decoupling. It is now shipping. If you have not ordered one there are several units available through Tindie or eBay. Assembly instructions and documentation is available on the product page.
