Product Change Notification feature is implemented on our web site so our customers can stay up to date with planned new features and board revision changes

Many of our customers asked us to implement Product Change Notification on our web, so they can subscribe and be notified when we start working on new revisions of our boards or when the new revision is in production together with the new features implemented.

Now we have it implemented as you can see on the picture above when you are in product page you can see small letter icon with red dot in the upper right corner, when you click on it you can subscribe for notification about this product.

 

Amazon Australia now keep stock of our popular boards and offers next day delivery!

Amazon Australia now stock some of our very popular boards and our customers there benefit from next day delivery!

Our Summer Vacation is approaching!

Our Summer vacation is from August 6th to August 17th. Please note that during this period our web store will work and you can place your orders, but they will be processed / shipped when we are back.

Orders which are placed in Friday August 3rd up to 12.00 our local time has great chances to be shipped same day, but if you really need something shipped before our vacation please do not count on last working day before our vacation to order it.

Our Help Day for September is this Saturday 26th of September in our training building

Our next Help Day is this Saturday 26/09 at 11.00 o’clock in our training building.

If you need help with your project, or you don’t know how to use some of our boards you can come this Saturday at our Help day.

We got a number of requests to make KiCAD workshop in Plovdiv like the one we did in Sofia at Hack Conf this weekend, so if you want to get familiar with KiCAD you can come on the Help day with your laptop with KiCad pre-installed and to learn how to use it 🙂

We use KiCAD extensively this year and already got more than 20 boards designed with it, so we got some experience we can share.

Our Summer vacation is approaching, please plan your orders on time

Please note: We will be closed for the first 2 weeks of August.  Every time our vacation approached it becomes a little bit tensely here as many people decide to order in the very last moment.

All small orders which are received and paid by 10.00 o’clock Bulgarian time on 31th of July, have decent chances to be shipped same day, for the bigger orders if we can’t manage to handle them same day they will be shipped on August 17th when we are back from our vacation, so please plan your orders in advance next week and do not wait Friday to place your order 🙂

Reminder – Tomorrow is our Help Day

 

Reminder tomorrow is our Help Day.

We will wait you from 14.00 o’clock in our Training Building (marked with X on the picture above).

Olimex Summer of Hacking 2015

For third year we will run Summer of Hacking

When?

From June to September 2015.

Where?

In Olimex’s new training building.

Who could participate?

• students;
• beginners;
• amateurs;
• people willing to learn new stuff;
• we do not have age limitations;

What we do offer?

• hacker space with fast internet connection;
• soldering irons;
• tools for hacking;
• oscilloscopes;
• programmers;
• JTAGs;
• development boards;
• laser cutter;
• DIY 3D printer;
• access to all boards which Olimex manufacture;
• mentors who to guide you through your projects;

What we expect from you?

• basic knowledge for software or hardware;
• basic english knowledge;
• willingless to learn and share with others;
• collaboration with other people;
• to have your own laptop or computer which to bring to hacker space;

What is the purpose?

• to learn new stuff;
• to share with others what you know;
• to meet interestings people with same interests;
• to make something interesting together;
• to do lighting talks on topics you know better than others;

What are the topics?

• Electronic design;
• kiCAD PCB layout;
• Programming embedded devices;
• Linux kernel and drivers hacking;
• Python embedded programming;
• OpenCV experiments;
• Designing 3d parts to print;
• Designing parts with laser cutter;
• Building and programming Robots;
• interactive toys;
• crazy projects;

Please submit your interest and the project you want to complete, note that you are not obligated to be here during the all time period. You can come in convenient for you time and leave when you want or upon completion of your project. This is not school, this is place where to learn, share and have fun. The number of seats are limited though, so we have to do some selection.

This is not paid event and is free to all who participate. Olimex does this at good will to help people who want to learn but have no money to buy development boards and tools to check their projects/ideas.

OLIMEX Help day

What is help day?

It’s once per month event (usually at the end of the month) where you can come to our place and get help with using our boards.

Sure you can bring stuff not made by us, and we will try to help with it too, but we are most familiar with our own boards and will be of much more help with them.

If you have project using our boards and something doesn’t work as expected, bring it here and we will do our the best to help you.

Our engineers will be available and you can ask questions and get help from the developers.

Or if you plan something but hesitate how to implement it we may help you to pickup the proper boards/sensors for it.

We do not guarantee that we will solve for minutes every problem you have, but at least we will try.

No e-mails – but good old face to face communication. Unfortunately we can offer this just once per month 🙂

Our first Help day for May will be on May 30th – Saturday, starting from 14.00 o’clock to not rush the people who will come from outside Plovdiv.

How much does it cost to participate in the Help day? Nothing the event is free (but we will appreciate if you bring with you couple of beers hahaha).

It will be fun and hacking, so join us.

Olimex is OSHWA member now

I already blogged for my visit in Rome for the OSHW Summit 2014.

While chatting there with Drew Fustini he asked me if Olimex is OSHWA member and I reallized that while being busy with developing OSHW projects Olimex actually forgot to become an formal OSHWA member, so when I returned back I quickly rectified this and applied for Supporting Corporate Membership.

Few weeks later I got this in my post box these nice stickers!

Now I just have to figure out  where to place them proudly!

Olimex Summer of Hacking 2014

When?

From June to September 2014.

Where?

In Olimex’s new training building.

Who could participate?

• students;
• beginners;
• amateurs;
• people willing to learn new stuff;
• we do not have age limitations;

What we do offer?

• hacker space with fast internet connection;
• soldering irons;
• tools for hacking;
• oscilloscopes;
• programmers;
• JTAGs;
• development boards;
• laser cutter;
• DIY 3D printer;
• access to all boards which Olimex manufacture;
• mentors who to guide you through your projects;

What we expect from you?

• basic knowledge for software or hardware;
• basic english knowledge;
• willingless to learn and share with others;
• collaboration with other people;
• to have your own laptop or computer which to bring to hacker space;

What is the purpose?

• to learn new stuff;
• to share with others what you know;
• to meet interestings people with same interests;
• to make something interesting together;
• to do lighting talks on topics you know better than others;

What are the topics?

• Electronic design;
• kiCAD PCB layout;
• Programming embedded devices;
• Linux kernel and drivers hacking;
• Python embedded programming;
• OpenCV experiments;
• Designing 3d parts to print;
• Designing parts with laser cutter;
• Building and programming Robots;
• interactive toys;
• crazy projects;

Please submit your interest and the project you want to complete, note that you are not obligated to be here during the all time period. You can come in convenient for you time and leave when you want or upon completion of your project. This is not school, this is place where to learn, share and have fun. The number of seats are limited though, so we have to do some selection.