Past Events
- Jun 22, 2025 Manufacturing in Uncertain Times: An Off-the-Record Discussion at Teardown 2025
- Jun 22, 2025 Right to Repair: An Off-the-Record Discussion at Teardown 2025
- Jun 22, 2025 Trusting Hardware at Teardown 2025
- Jun 24, 2023 Precursor Hacking at Teardown 2023
- Jun 24, 2023 Can We Make Exotic PCB Processes More Accessible? at Teardown 2023
Updates Authored
- Sep 10, 2020 Precursor: Introducing...
- Sep 18, 2020 Precursor: The Platform
- Nov 01, 2020 Precursor: Crowdfunding Begins!
- Nov 19, 2020 Precursor: Evaluating Our Hardware Security
- Nov 23, 2020 Precursor: AMA: Your Chance to Ask All the Questions!
- Nov 25, 2020 Precursor: How We Make Our Custom PCBs
- Dec 10, 2020 Precursor: Stretch Goal: Larger Battery!
- Dec 15, 2020 Precursor: The Last Day of Our Campaign!
- Dec 16, 2020 Precursor: Wow. Thank You, Precursor Community!
- Dec 03, 2020 Precursor: Our Mechanical Design
- Dec 09, 2020 Precursor: What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway?
- Jan 07, 2021 Precursor: Kicking off Manufacturing in a New Year
- Mar 15, 2021 Precursor: From Steel to Supply Chains to Operating Systems to...Bitcoin???
- Apr 20, 2021 Precursor: Software, Pre-Boot, Testing, Certification, and Time Lines
- Jun 02, 2021 Precursor: Supply Chain, Xous, EMC, and Keyboard Updates
- Aug 25, 2021 Precursor: Xous 0.9 Release, Secured Boot, EMC Testing Redux, And the Road to Production
- Oct 27, 2021 Precursor: Xous: Bug Scrub, Stupid Network Tricks; Production Update; and Boycott the UKCA!
- Dec 03, 2021 Precursor: Production Start, Livestream, and Giveaway!
- Feb 03, 2022 Precursor: A Sticky Situation & Production Status
- Feb 16, 2022 Precursor: The Shippening is Nigh! and Xous 0.9.6
- Mar 17, 2022 Precursor: More Supply Chain Issues! Surprise Edition: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
- Apr 22, 2022 Precursor: Xous Book, Stocking Forecast, and Xous 0.9.8 Release Notes
- Jun 13, 2022 Precursor: Coming Soon: FIDO2 & HID Keyboard Support
- Jul 21, 2022 Precursor: Xous Release v0.9.9: “Vault” Authentication App & More!
- Sep 16, 2022 Precursor: Bringing Up TLS on Precursor
- Oct 18, 2022 Precursor: Xous 0.9.10: Filing off Rough Edges
- Dec 28, 2022 Precursor: Xous 0.9.11: UX Improvements, New Features & eFuse Key Burning in Beta
- Feb 10, 2023 Precursor: Xous 0.9.12: FIDO2.1 Residential Keys, Kernel Improvements, USB Mass Storage and More!
- May 16, 2023 Precursor: Meetups, New Production and Xous 0.9.13
- Aug 09, 2023 Precursor: New Xous Release 0.9.14: Quality of Life Improvements
- Oct 11, 2023 Precursor: Call for Developers: Precursor Chat Client
- Dec 15, 2023 The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen: Revised for 2024
- Dec 28, 2023 Precursor: Xous v.0.9.15 release is now available
- Sep 24, 2020 Precursor: A Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard
- Jun 28, 2024 Precursor: Xous 0.9.16: Harmonization and Encrypted Swap
- Mar 02, 2026 Precursor: Xous 0.10.0 - Introducing Baochip-1x Support
- Nov 05, 2020 Precursor: A Guided Tour of the Precursor System on Chip (SoC)
Projects Launched
Precursor
Mobile, Open Hardware, RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) Development Kit
STEAM Stories: When Thea LED the Way
Craft with circuits. Electrify a world.
The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
A sourcing tool designed to help non-Mandarin speakers navigate the Hua Qiang electronics market.
Projects Backed
Dabao Evaluation Board for Baochip-1x
A powerful new RISC-V microcontroller with mostly open RTL
The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
Everything you need to navigate the world's largest electronics market
IQ Motor Module
The first drone motor with position sensing
AI in a Box
Your own offline, private, open source LLM for conversations and more
Precursor
Mobile, Open Hardware, RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) Development Kit
IQ Fortiq BLS42
Compact, high-performance servo motors for industrial and robotics applications
Qomu
An MCU + eFPGA dev kit with 100% vendor-supported open source tools that fits inside your USB port
Glasgow Interface Explorer revC
A highly capable and extremely flexible open source multitool for digital electronics
IQ Vertiq 8108
A commercial-grade drone & robotics motor module
The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
A sourcing tool designed to help non-Mandarin speakers navigate the Hua Qiang electronics market.
Tomu
An ARM board that fits inside your USB connector
STEAM Stories: When Thea LED the Way
Craft with circuits. Electrify a world.
Aeroscope
Wireless Oscilloscope
EEZ H24005 Power Supply
A fully open source programmable power supply with professional, lab-quality features and performance
HiFive1
An open source, Arduino-compatible RISC-V dev kit
Aeroscope Wireless Oscilloscope Probe
A wireless, ultra-portable oscilloscope with impressive specs – debug circuits in their natural environment.
Circuit Classics
Exquisite printed circuit boards that bring to life Forrest Mims' vintage designs from "Getting Started in Electronics."
snickerdoodle
A Linux computer that connects to the real world: ARM + FPGA + Wi-Fi + 180 I/O