This lovely module has been underway for a while now and it has had some design changes and chip improvements along the way. We have now had our ‘golden prototype’ and we can start producing them. Everything was arranged to be in-house so we could start final assembly and testing Read more
Things are progressing and our Fenixes are flying out the door! At this point almost 40 of our Fenixes have flown out the door to their new owners. Quite a few have landed in the USA and Canada while one is in Singapore and another lives in Mumbai. Two have Read more
It seems like ages ago that we cheerfully announced that our first batch of 18 Fenixes were almost done and would ship mid April. We are now almost mid June and we are indeed SHIPPING! A bunch of things happened in the meantime. One big milestone was declaring the manual Read more
We have Fenixes on the shelf! 14 Fenix IVs are fully tested, calibrated and packed away waiting for us to finish the software and the manual. 4 Fenixes need one more round of calibration and then they too can be packed away. We are already in touch with the first Read more
The new RP2040 chip by RaspberryPi is amazing. When we got our hands on this beautiful little thing, we did what we always do with new chips and slapped on a Goldfish; our favourite acid bassline synthesizer (we make fish and chips hahahaha). While benchmarking the performance by copy/pasting instances Read more
So many rings and things and man the house is in chaos because IT IS HAPPENING! Closer and closer we get everyday to what we’ve been working towards for almost three years now: the FenixIV we envisioned, in your hands, making happy beep. Thanks to our lovely assembly houses and Read more
We are now IN PRODUCTION. So exciting! As I write this all the necessary PCB have been ordered, most boards and all their components are at our first assembly house and they have started. Some other boards and components have been ordered and are underway to our second assembly house. Read more
Since our last blog boxes of led-button switches have arrived. As well as the necessary quantity of our signature yellow leds (with separate standoffs that SOMEONE is going to have to slide onto the LED legs), and the little screens that we use for our scope (IPS 240*240 LCD screens, Read more
How are you doing? Most of us are in lockdown – intelligent or otherwise. Working from home and washing our hands again and again. Packing our disinfectants and facemasks when we venture outside to not embrace our friends and family. All in the hope that this global pandemic may pass Read more
How things have changed – in Amsterdam we are in the middle of Corona quarantine, not in full lock-down yet but we might be soon. We are STAYING INSIDE. And yet, things are also very much the same. We continue to work on our FenixIV; the design and the sound Read more