I've been at Maker Faire all yesterday, and I will be here most/all of today (Sunday). I'm at the Audio Anecdotes booth in the back/left of the main expo hall. If you are there, feel free to drop by and say hello.

The ybox2 (the electronics kit I developed) is now available at ThinkGeek!

Well folks, the day has finally come. After seven months of work, and with the help of the talented Ladyada of Adafruit Industries, ybox2 kits are now finally available!

The kits are selling for $75 each, and include all of the parts required to build a functional ybox2.

Here is the cool part: You don't need any extra tools to reflash the firmware! The EEPROM in the kit comes preloaded with an ethernet bootloader I wrote, which allows you to upload new firmware to the device over the network! This works so well that over the past month or so I've used my prop-plug only two or three times. 90% of my development—including development of the bootloader—has been over the network.

More information is available in the FAQ.

UPDATE: The ybox2 made it on Engadget!! w00t!

Sophia's cat likes to sleep in the comfy confines of her clothes drawer.

This should put a stop to that.

I finally got the finished PCB for the ybox2 in the mail yesterday. I populated it last night, but I ended up running out of parts. A quick run to Fry's combined with some early-morning soldering, and behold...

It works! Woo-hoo! Now comes the hard part: the Propeller TCP/IP stack.

I got the finished printed circuit boards for the mystery device in the mail the other day. After putting all of the parts on the board, this is what I now have:

Keep in mind that this is just a prototype. The next version will be cooler.