As of today, there are no more OG WTPAs!
The last 20 or so (of 200) took forever to get out the door.
Thanks, everybody, for helping make this happen. Thanks for all the feedback, and for the patience, and for giving me my first less-than-wack experience designing a product.
Hats off,
TB
(Note, there are still lots of benighted and lonely bare PCBs and microcontrollers for the H4RDC0R3)
196 | posted at November 20th, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: bidniss, Kits, WTPA, WTPA v1.01
The only thing I can find that I did during the month of October in 2009 that did not involve an NDA or corporate clients was apparently retrofitting my workbench chair with hot pink racing casters from McMaster and undoubtedly listening to this a lot.
xo
TB
172 | posted at October 27th, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: Hardware, McMaster, Throw Some D's On It, Weirdbeard
Not content to rest on his laurels, Nick decided to build ANOTHER WTPA for his old friend Jonny who plays minimal techno on a fancy euro label as a present for bringing him over to Berlin to write some tracks. Again I had a chance to warm up the CAD deck and make this guy. He still has threaded holes, but everything is a little tighter than before. And he’s blue.






These cases were cut by my man Joe at Prototope who do a kickass job of laser cutting really fast, and are based in Manhattan.
By this time I got pretty convinced that churning out lasered cases was like falling off a log and figured the next WTPA ought to come with one as an option, albeit without the annoying thread cutting step.
xo
TB
165 | posted at September 24th, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: Acrylic, Enclosures, Plastic Work, Rocker Dudes, WTPA, WTPA v1.01

This benighted ogre is a wonder put into this world for the express purpose of making sick children smile. He lives in the lobby of the Comer Childrens’ Hospital in Chicago, and was a really nice present that my old toy company donated. I more or less did the work for free in a really short time, and it was good experience.
Problem is there was a lot I didn’t know in 2005 (though it did not stop me from TRYING to design some complicated sensors) and in the time since then I’ve spent about a million hours putting band aids on less-than-ideal systems.
This is a picture of his brain extracted, waiting to go somewhere. I knew I had to fix it, I wasn’t sure when that would be.
200 | posted at September 22nd, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: Art Shiz, Chicago Represent, Hardware, Remoc