As part of our ongoing blog updates, we will be bringing you a featured Community Project, focused on new and innovative technology, especially open source hardware.

Our first feature is surrounding energy harvesting – taking very tiny power sources and converting them to useful applications.

Bob over at Ambient Sensors has shown how to use the 40mV-500mV LTC3108 boost converter being powered from a Peltier junction.

You can also find his open source design on Github.

The StackFoundry store will be down for maintenance starting Aug 1 and lasting approximately one day in order to migrate away from our existing Magento installation. In addition, the store will be moving URLs.

Existing URLs will be redirected as appropriate.

Note that user accounts and previous orders will not be migrated.

Just a quick update for those browsing our source code – we are slowly decommissioning the local git code hosting (at git.stackfoundry.org) and moving either to Github or Gitorious.

Currently moved:

  1. qsgen the static site generator
  2. TropicSSL the BSD licensed fork of PolarSSL.

Our mistake – the online store went down earlier due to an errant upgrade to PHP 5.3, which apparently Magento doesn’t support. Yet another reason to dislike PHP…

© 2011 StackFoundry Blog Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha