We’ll be kicking off an Embedded Hardware User Group in Cologne this Saturday in cooperation with Railslove and Dingfabrik.

Drop us a line if you’re coming or are interested in being kept in the loop. Or just come by Railslove, An der Bottmuehle 5 at 14:00.

For the starting session, Matthias and I will be hosting an Introduction to Embedded Programming Workshop that will explain the basics of embedded programming using the Everykey. Bring a microusb cable!

Cheapo CNC

It’s like Christmas in October at Everykey world headquarters! We received our modestly priced chinese CNC router yesterday, packed in an awesome wooden crate. It’s moderately priced because it only has a parallel port connection, but we’ll be changing that. Basically the entire controller mechanism consists of four Allegro A3977 Stepper Driver boards which we can control directly from the Everykey…