Apologies for the recent lull in posts. I have slowly been receiving bis and bobs of testing results from the niftymitter 0.24 testers and do intend to document them all here soon. Have been up in Dundee these past two days, getting promo shots for the exhibition in June. Would be great to have some [...]

Tester Andrew has been busy with niftymitter 0.24, as reported earlier. He has now put up a thorough post on his blog, discussing some of the early issues he is having. To paraphrase, he wishes particularly for a means of adjusting the line input level, as well an AM version of the transmitter, and a [...]

Andrew has been putting up some more photos from his initial v0.24 testing, which is much appreciated. Here, he is using it to broadcast a music from a vinyl playing on a rather swish record player.. Any issues in this set up Andrew? Excellent work! Check out the full set here.

Tester Andrew has received his kit and posted some pictures here. Looking forward to more!

From what I’ve heard, the testers have received their kits and are underway with hacking. We made use of my 0.24 prototype over christmas, with some mixed results – Used it at first to transmit sound from my brother’s laptop to the living room stereo. Whereas the sound from the laptop is tinny and quiet, [...]

  Some more of Malcolm’s great photos.. A new general shot above for the front page, and one showing how the sleeve component developed throught version 0.2x (top left down to bottom right): And the kit in detail:

  The kits have been, despatched, most of them on Monday, so you may well have received yours by now. Many thanks to all volunteers, I look forward to seeing what you do! This morning Malcolm Finnie kindly photographed the last kit for me in expert conditions, and with expertise. Here’s one:

Have uploaded the 0.24 source as a new thing on Thingiverse: Niftymitter v0.24 on Thingiverse – parts releases, parts lists and assembly instructions [Thingiverse] I like the ‘papertrail’ that Thingiverse encourages by terming new things as ‘derivatives’ – a feature lacking in Instructables. The forward papertrail, however, from a parent thing to a child thing, [...]

I was contacted by Noel Portugal, presumably via Instructables, who wanted one of the test kits. Unfortunately they have all been allocated, and he lives in the US, but I suggested he have a shot at making up a Niftymitter from source. Noel has put up an instructable showing how one can use arduino + [...]

Since posting my inexpert attempts at measuring the power output of the transmitter, I’ve had a couple of interesting replies: The first from Mr. Kogawa himself (publisher of the Simplest FM Transmitter, the circuit upon which Niftymitter is based). “…As for your question about the power, you can get the theoretical figure like this: at [...]