From: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:11:49 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: new blog post on TD board arrival
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+[[!tag tags/rockets]]
+This afternoon, a box arrived from [Advanced Circuits](http://4pcb.com/),
+containing 108 fully assembled [TeleDongle](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleDongle) 
+boards!  
+
+[[!img /bdale/blog/images/cimg5556-small.png]]
+
+This is not only the first "intended for sale" build of hardware from the
+[Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org) family of projects, it's also the first
+time that I've ever sent out one of my board designs for someone else to 
+assemble.  I therefore approached the turn-on and test of the first board 
+out of the box with more than a little trepidation... fortunately, for no
+reason!
+
+I'm immensely pleased to report that TeleDongle serial number 100 turned on 
+and works entirely as expected!  
+
+I celebrated by packaging it in a cool little 
+[Hammond translucent blue plastic box](http://www.hammondmfg.com/dwg9TBU.htm) 
+with a USB cable, yielding the first prototype of a fully packaged TeleDongle 
+board such as we anticipate selling for use receiving data from rockets 
+carrying [TeleMetrum](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleMetrum) boards.  
+
+[[!img /bdale/blog/images/cimg5560-small.png]]
+
+We also intend to sell these boards as-is (flashed with default firmware and 
+measured oscillator cal value) to folks who'd like a robust wireless link 
+for their next microcontroller project, whether rocket-related or not.  I will,
+of course, post something here when we're ready to start taking orders.
+
+Now we just need the weather to cooperate long enough to log more test
+flights of [TeleMetrum](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleMetrum).  The new version
+looks great so far, but I want a few more flights before I'll be confident
+enough to place an order with our assembler for a run of those too...  Stay 
+tuned!