Big news today for people from the US, Canada, Australia, and other parts of the world where the 915 MHz band is available for use with JeeNodes.

Paul Badger of Modern Device has added JeeNodes and a few other items to his shop – check it out:

Please be patient as Paul gets all the necessary bits and pieces ready, but this means you’ll be able to get Jee stuff with US prices and (much) lower shipping costs if you live on the other side of the big pond.

Behind the scenes, Paul Badger has been actively involved in the Jee Labs since early this year. I’m very happy that at last he’ll also be able to get involved with actual shipments.

Things are still evolving quite rapidly here w.r.t. plugs, so we’re still figuring how and when to make all the different plugs available, boards, pre-assembled, etc. The intention is to eventually provide all the same options as in the European Jee Labs Shop, but it may take some time to get there. It’s going to be a bit tricky to get it right with such a moving target…

This change also means that I’m no longer offering 915 MHz units from Europe – just 868 MHz.

On the plugs front there is some good news as well, as final versions of the Blink / Expander / Memory / RTC / UART plugs and the Proto Board are set to arrive here tomorrow. I’ll be updating the various bits and pieces and pictures once they come in, of course.

The astute reader will notice that there are still a few items missing. I’m expecting a few more boards by the end of the week, but there are also some delays due to a production issue which requires some boards to be re-made. That means some boards won’t be in for another two weeks and there’s little I can do about it :(

Not to mention the fact that stupid little mistakes with boards seem to have become a habit of mine… each mistake leads to a new round trip to the pcb shop, i.e. 3 weeks on average. Which is why I’m juggling as many overlapping release cycles as I can – while trying not to make yet more mistakes!

Next month all this frantic shop stuff should be over, and I hope to get back to some “real” lab work, with more s/w coding and finishing up some of the numerous projects cluttering up my desk… eh, I mean my entire office!