Pawprint Prototyping

There are a huge amount of wannabe PCB designers at Pawprint Prototyping. None of us have any REAL experience, but we can still throw together a (mostly) working PCB. We’re heavy users of JLCPCB’s assembly service and PCBWay’s turnkey assembly programs, but frankly we’re tired of the parts constraints and turnaround times offered by both of those options. Sometimes we want to use some good ol’ American microcontrollers! Those are often in short supply when going for JLC’s…

June 15th marked Pawprint Prototyping’s return to OpenSauce - the whimsical convention for Science and Maker YouTubers, and brainchild of William Osman.

A menagerie of members proudly presented these fine projects at our exhibitor table:

• The Badge!
• Return of the ARM
• Legally Distinct Simon
• Pirate Box Badge
• Long Range Thermal Imaging Camera
• Water Plants Game

We were all especially excited to return this year since one of our members, DC Punks had the honor of designing the OpenSauce…

This was probably one of our most time consuming projects, and also the one we are most proud of. I worked on this with my partner Burry, under our group name DCPunks. We were fortunate enough to show it off at TWO conventions in the Bay Area, Further Confusion 2024 and Open Sauce 2024!

It’s exactly what it seems like. A huge Game Boy camera kiosk that will print out your photo on a piece of sticker paper, just like the original! In case you didn’t know, the…

Revision 4.0

As members of the hacking community, we the representatives of Totally Legit Agency, dba Pawprint Prototyping (herein also written as simply the Hackerspace), in the desire to promote our mission and to better govern ourselves, hereby lay down the following ground rules for executing the Business of our organization:

1. Pawprint Prototyping’s Mission is to:
   1. Establish and maintain a community space wherein the…

Warning: this process is pretty technical, it requires familiarity with OpenPGP and the command-line. It assumes you have the program gpg installed.

On the terminal, import Pawprint’s public OpenPGP key from a keyserver:

gpg –recv-key 12463A8A9661FBB98C15C5F2FB8E49432F2EE9CC gpg –fingerprint 12463A8A9661FBB98C15C5F2FB8E49432F2EE9CC

The first line will import the key into your keyring, but there is no guarentee that you actually imported the right key. The --fingerprint …

Break and make hardware. LINUX OR BUST. Billionaires suck.

He/him | CTO @ pawprintprototyping, voider of warranties, and trustee for Pawprint’s amateur radio club.