16Mar, 2013
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Weekly update (3/16)

 

As we said last week, this week was going to be spent sourcing components. As of the moment, all of the high risk components are in our possession or in transit, so things are looking good! Once our purchase orders clear and the distributors tell us when they will ship things out we will have a better idea of when exactly the pre-production units will ship. As such most of next week will be devoted to component sourcing as well.

In the meantime, we will release driver updates and user mode updates. We will send out another update when that happens.

08Mar, 2013
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Weekly update (3/8)

 

We have spent the past week tracking packages, sourcing components with longer lead times, and preparing purchase orders. There don’t appear to be any supply chain issues that would affect any of the runs. We hope to have a clear idea for when the pre-production run will happen as soon as our funds are released and our purchase orders are placed. Additionally, some of our bulk accessory purchases have started coming in, so we will begin sending out the beta units shortly.

Lastly, we have gone ahead and incorporated some of your feedback into our design. There was some concern over the quality of the clock feeding the LMS’s data converters so we uprgaded the Si5330 to an Si5338 so that we could have a use it as an ultra low jitter PLL. The upgrade should greatly improve the system’s SNR. We have also added additional GPIO and an SMA port for synchronization.

Next week will be similar to this week as we will be spending most our time acquiring components.

 

27Feb, 2013
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We made it!

 

Thank you for the support everyone. It has been a hard yet fun and very rewarding road getting to this point.

In the coming weeks we are going to mail the beta units to our backers, finish sourcing all of the components for the mass production run, finalize all of the engineering details on the pre-production units, set up an order confirmation and tracking backend, and open up the web forum to all of our backers. Backers in qualifying tiers will receive the ability to start and vote in threads requesting examples, and tutorials.

All of the source code we release will be available via Github at https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF . This will include all of the drivers, user mode applications, HDL source code, embedded firmware, and documentation needed to operate the bladeRF.

Our plan is to update you, our backers, on a regular basis about the status of the project. At the very minimum this will result in weekly status updates. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us via Kickstarter, email ( [email protected] ), IRC, or the web contact form on http://nuand.com/contact.php .

Lastly, for any late-comers, our webstore can be found at http://nuand.com/order.php . Follow us via Twitter ( https://twitter.com/NuandLLC ) or subscribe to our email notifications on the order page for the latest news about general availability of the bladeRFs.