Yesterday, the Quadcopter group of the Beijing LUG met at the Exoweb office to assemble the pieces of the boarduino  microcontrollers. We had lots of fun, and I learned a great deal about hardware, soldering, resistors, LED’s, analog, and digital pins, as well as microchips. Although the Quadcopter group’s final goal is to build a quadcopter, the microcontrolles we built yesterday were rather an educational experiment in which we tried to understand the internals of the boarduino.

The boarduino is an Open Source arduino clone which can run the same software as the arduino. Unfortunately, we didn’t succeed in loading the bootloader to the chip yesterday, so we will need to wait for next time to start programming.

Can’t help but blog it : Yesterday, at the Best Of Swiss Web award night, Liip project iconomix won the awards for the categories “Technology Quality” and “Public Affairs”. You can see the prices we won here and here (lol).

Liip project www.iconomix.ch has been nominated for the Master of Swiss Web 2008 award! Check out the list of candidates on the best of swiss web website and vote for us by subscribing to the netzwoche netzticker as described here and on vote.liip.ch (german only).