2 This afternoon, a box arrived from [Advanced Circuits](http://4pcb.com/),
3 containing 108 fully assembled [TeleDongle](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleDongle)
6 [[!img /bdale/blog/images/cimg5556-small.jpg]]
8 This is not only the first "intended for sale" build of hardware from the
9 [Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org) family of projects, it's also the first
10 time that I've ever sent out one of my board designs for someone else to
11 assemble. I therefore approached the turn-on and test of the first board
12 out of the box with more than a little trepidation... fortunately, for no
15 I'm immensely pleased to report that TeleDongle serial number 100 turned on
16 and works entirely as expected!
18 I celebrated by packaging it in a cool little
19 [Hammond translucent blue plastic box](http://www.hammondmfg.com/dwg9TBU.htm)
20 with a USB cable, yielding the first prototype of a fully packaged TeleDongle
21 board such as we anticipate selling for use receiving data from rockets
22 carrying [TeleMetrum](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleMetrum) boards.
24 [[!img /bdale/blog/images/cimg5560-small.jpg]]
26 We also intend to sell these boards as-is (flashed with default firmware and
27 measured oscillator cal value) to folks who'd like a robust wireless link
28 for their next microcontroller project, whether rocket-related or not. I will,
29 of course, post something here when we're ready to start taking orders.
31 Now we just need the weather to cooperate long enough to log more test
32 flights of [TeleMetrum](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleMetrum). The new version
33 looks great so far, but I want a few more flights before I'll be confident
34 enough to place an order with our assembler for a run of those too... Stay