A couple weeks ago I gave a presentation in which a venture capitalist, after hearing the presentation, asked to buy a unit. I still don’t have tooling done for the enclosure, so I had to design a new enclosure that more »
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Populating the earth – one board at a time
Last week my boards arrived. I immediately set about populating one to test. With ~200 LEDs, ~35 MOSFETs, ~70 resistors, and ~30 other components, that’s a lot of soldering of tiny surface mount parts. The first board worked great, and more »
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Full size boards arrived!
The first revision using the full size PCB has arrived! This is a rough draft; an attempt to see what happens trying to produce the board at the full size. There will be at least one more revision to make more »
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Portable Scores at the Shenzhen Mini Maker Faire
Portable Scores had a booth at the Shenzhen Mini Maker Faire, where we showed off the scoreboard and got feedback from the makers at the event. The reaction was not what we expected. First, there was a problem with communication more »
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Playing at work
I’m currently in China working on the design of the scoreboard and its mass production. We have a ping pong table in the break room, and the scoreboard is doing its job. You can see the ball in motion (the more »
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First revision of the board sent out
As of today, the first revision of the board (actually the third revision, but the first one at full scale) has been sent to the PCB fab house, and we should get the boards within a week. This is still more »
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Life’s a game; we wanna help you score well
On TechCrunch recently was a series of articles on the gamification of life, and how sensors and metrics and analytics are becoming more important in our lives, and how tools are being developed that help people measure and qauntify everything, more »
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We are in China!
Portable Scores has moved its operations to China temporarily to work on manufacturing the scoreboard and making it even more awesome. There were some things slowing us down in the states, and here in China there are fewer distractions keeping more »
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Portable Scores Is Official!
On February 9, 2012, Portable Scores registered as an LLC with the state of Wisconsin. This is not, however, where the story of Portable Scores begins. <old crony voice> On New Years Eve 2006, Bob Baddeley, Nick Cramer, and Doug more »
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