Per my last blog post, I’ve completely deleted my Patreon account. Those days are over and are not coming back. I’m still not sure what will replace it, or if anything will. It is already difficult for me to ask for money in return for mostly intangible benefits. Losing the Patreon monthly income will hurt a bit, as that was the funds I was using to pay for OpenBeacon Mini (and other project) development. I only sell a modest amount of the Si5351A Breakout Boards via Etherkit; basically just enough to pay for keeping the lights on there for now.

So allow me to start using this blog again for what I was doing on Patreon, sans the locked content.

OpenBeacon Mini has a schematic finished and I’m just about ready to lay out the PCB. Empyrean (my Arduino Zero derivative) testing is going to be delayed a bit while I figure out how to fund the beta batch. Those two projects are going to be my main focus and I hope to be going into release with both of them by Q1 2018. Further down the line, I don’t want to speculate too much, but I’ll probably tidy up and finish some half-finished smaller boards that I want to add to my Etherkit lineup in order to fill out the catalog with some more RF products.

I’ll work on ramping up the blogging here, using my own site much as I was using Patreon: to post smaller updates about project progress. I always felt the need to make more substantial posts here, which often deterred me from writing. I believe that was a mistake. Expect to see more content in line with microblogging here in the future. Thanks for hanging in there.