Production Complete
Campaign production is complete! All campaign orders shipped to Crowd Supply last week, while pre-orders are shipping this week. You should be receiving your Programmable USB Hub ahead of schedule! Read the full update.
Production Update: Part II
First the bad news; due to a slight delay in PCB fabrication and assembly, it is now looking like shipping will be slightly delayed from the campaign goal of 1/19. We currently expect to ship around the end of January. Other than that, this update is full of progress and fun production images. Read the full update.
Production Update
With the campaign successful (woohoo!) and concluded, our efforts have now transitioned to preparing-for and starting production. Featuring final design revisions, FCC & CE compliance testing, EMC testing, and more. Read the full update.
Start of Production
With the campaign successful (woohoo!) and concluded, our efforts have now transitioned to preparing-for and starting production. We'll keep you all informed as we progress with production, but in this update I wanted to tell you about how the mechanical design of the Front and Rear Enclosure Panels was done ... with Python. Read the full update.
Final Week!
There is one more week to go on the Programmable USB Hub campaign! That means there is only one more week to purchase your Hub before prices increase. Read the full update.
Power System Load Response
In this update we wrap-up power system testing by adding high-bandwidth voltage and current measurement hardware to the test setup, which allows for load-response characterization to be done. Read the full update.
Power Capability & Testing
In this update -- power testing! As you may recall from last week's update, there are a few components between the input power connector and the power rails provided to the downstream USB Ports. Let's exercise them a bit and see how they fare! Read the full update.
Design Evolution of the Programmable USB Hub
Today's update is going to be a dive into the design progression and evolution of the Programmable USB Hub. Note, I didn't start out with the aim of creating a product which smashes together a USB Hub, Power Supply, Development Board, and IO expander -- my aim was simply to create a product which provided more monitoring and control of USB devices. Read the full update.
USB Hub Control Jupyter Notebooks
First, it's incredibly exciting to see the enthusiasm for the Hub here on Crowd Supply and at the 2019 Teardown Conference last weekend. During the conference I did a presentation on how I've used Jupyter Notebooks to aid the electrical design and testing of this product. Read the full update.
Campaign is Live!
The Programmable USB Hub campaign is now live! It's a USB hub that's also a dev board and an I2C, GPIO, and SPI bridge. We're also at Teardown 2019 in Portland - come say hi! Read the full update.