Wir freuen uns heute ganz außerordentlich, bekannt geben zu können, dass wir unsere ersten Reseller in der Schweiz gefunden haben und das Fritzing Creator Kit ab sofort auch im Land des Käses, der Schokolade und Taschenmesser direkt zu haben ist.
Das Fritzing Creator Kit kann in den Shops
Wir wünschen Euch viel Spaß mit dem Kit und liebe Grüße in die Schweiz!
PS: Vielen Dank an Patzi und Alekos für die Unterstützung!
(Foto: Vasile Cotovanu)
We have some exciting news for our beloved fab service users!
- Finally you get a black silkscreen on both sides of your boards for no extra cost! PCBs with submitted top and bottom silkscreen layers will be fabbed with both layers, as simple as that! By the way since release 0.8.0 you can flip your board in PCB view and work on the bottom layer copper and silkscreen as if you had the board in your hand.
- We dropped the tracked post shipping in Europe and rest of the world because it was too slow and the tracking was inefficient. Instead, you will be able to choose between UPS Standard, which is much faster, insured and trackable in real time, and UPS Express for your shipments in Europe. Customers outside of Europe will be able to choose the very affordable but untracked and slow traditional postal shipping or the 48h Express shipping service. Check out our pricing page for the new fees.
- We added a "Billing Address" field to your order page for the people who need to have their orders shipped to a different address than the billing address.
Happy fabbing!
UPS Airlines
Hello World :-) Today, I want to introduce Laura and Johanna to you.
Laura was born in Chicago and lived in San Francisco before she moved to Berlin last year. She is a creator / programmer / organizer who loves to ride bikes and talk a lot about them.
Johanna grew up between Madrid and Seattle, went through a Californian phase and has been living in Berlin since 2008. She spends a lot of her time outside, regardless of the weather.
From now on, the two will write on our blog about their experiences with creative electronics and we are very exited about their upcoming reports!
Hello, Fritzing world. My name is Laura and I’m a creator / programmer and organizer living in Berlin. If I’m not planning a new project or talking with people about a whacky idea, then I’m probably thinking about one. I moved to Berlin about a year ago and got involved in open tech / rails girls / maker things when my friend and I started going to Everything together (yes, Everything). Workshops, meetups, tangentially related conferences, you name it. Johanna and I were there.
Johanna and I at Everything:
https://instagram.com/p/ZdE6QQGr-9/
https://instagram.com/p/ZvJy7omr6I/
This Fall we’re testing the new Fritzing Creator Kit. We’ve worked with Arduinos before, but this is our first foray into the Fritzing world. We’re going to try each project, try our own projects and document the process through this blog.
i.e., make things, break things and drink (lots of) coffee.
Since we’ll blog regularly in the next months, I asked Johanna a few questions to help you get to know us better. Follow the entire series, stay tuned on the Fritzing blog and follow us on Twitter: Laura Wadden and Johanna Santos Bassetti.
You have a degree in art, you're interested in agriculture, you've worked in product strategy at various startups, and you even picked strawberries while living on a Danish island. What got you involved in Fritzing?
Ever since I was a little girl I watched my dad solder things. And I knew that by soldering things he was making other things happen. At that point I didn’t really understand what computers were, but I liked the soldering process. And then when I understood what computers were, I got interested in how to make computers do stuff that serves you as a tool. I thought of them as potential translators of the physical world and imagined ways of using computers to measure how plants grow. But I didn’t know about sensors then.
So you thought about programming machines as a little girl? Awesome!
Exactly.
How did you get involved in Fritzing and Arduinos this time around?
I worked with Arduinos back in 2011 doing wearable Arduino work for a friend’s exhibition during Club Transmediale. He had a Lilypad, sensors and speakers that I sewed into a lab coat with metal string. I had to figure out a way to sew it so that none of the connections touched while the participants moved so it wouldn’t short-circuit.
How has the Berlin maker scene – Fritzing, Open Tech School, the workshops we’ve gone to, Hackidemia, the Kids Hackathon, etc. – influenced your involvement in Arduinos & Fritzing?
The project back in 2011 was really on the outskirts, but Arduinos stayed on my mind. Then all of a sudden it was much more accessible through these meetups. People were willing to share their knowledge and teach - that’s the first time I felt it was possible to work on my own projects.
What about those meetups inspired you?
The Open Tech School meetup was inspiring because there were tons of projects happening at the same time and so many different types of learning in self-organized groups. The diversity of approaches was titillating: There was a table of sound tinkerers! There was a wearables table! And a table of complete newbies!
I think seeing how collaborative, open and fluid the community was made me feel safe to try whatever I wanted and feel supported by other people.
And I inspired you too, right?!
Yes! When I started doing these projects with you – that’s when I noticed how well we work together. Our different learning complement each other. And I realized how much fun it is.
Do you have any goals with our Fritzing project this Fall? What are you trying to get out of it?
I want to test some ideas that I’ve kept locked in my brain vault for the last decade. With Fritzing, they are potentially doable now. I am excited to get to it!
Follow Laura Wadden and Johanna Santos Bassetti on Twitter and keep up with the Fritzing blog to find out what happens next in their learning adventure.
The MaketechXconference at Berlin’s Platoon Kunsthalle will take place from 8 – 9 of November 2013. It invites inspired thinkers, makers and developers to enter an intense, two-day conference of ambitious tinkering, lively discussions and hands-on innovation with smart tech, DIY development and plenty of focused ingenuity.
See the MaketechXlab – a mobile Fablab – to turn tentative ideas into tangible prototypes. Fritzing sponsored the electronic teaching material! «It’s high time to put humanity back in control of technology; so sign up to join our roster of key thinkers and passionate activists and help us realise simple – and simply inspired – solutions that promote positive change on any level!», so far the MakeTechX initiators.
A lot of interesting talks will be held and you can join ours on Friday, 12 o’clock. We will have a small hands on demonstration of the Fritzing Creator Kit on Friday, too. It will take place from 11 o’clock AM to 1 o’clock PM.
Hope to see you there :-)