I stopped by The Mill today to check in on the new aluminum frame for RedPost’s new Sign (the replacement for the RedPost/Kit, which is no longer available). More details on the Sign later…but for now, here’s how the custom-designed aluminum frame is made. These bars of aluminum: Get heated up and pushed through a [...]
It looks really cool…I like the plant sticking out behind it too. Thanks to Echoing Green for the blog love. From their post: …Echoing Green received a wonderful gift from a Santa-type character over the holiday break. Eric Kanagy, the founder of RedPost delivered our winning entry in the RedPost Sculpture Contest we entered last [...]
I just went over to John Mishler’s studio today and picked up the finished sculpture from our Master Sculptor + Your Sweet Design = Free RedPost/Kit contest. It looks sweet, so I guess the name of our contest wasn’t a misnomer. Here’s a video of John talking about his work: I’m hand delivering it to [...]
There’s about 6″ of snow on the ground here in Goshen, Indiana. To try to stay warm (we have some insulation issues to work through) we’re working hard and today are announcing (in addition to Beta 2.3 of RedPost/OpenSource) an updated RedPost/Kit, now with the option for an external USB port. And if you use [...]
At long last, Beta 2.3 of RedPost/OpenSource, the modified version of DamnSmallLinux that runs on every RedPost/Kit, is now available. Changes include: Friendlier: added subdirectory support for local images Easier to customize: moved initialization scripts out of compressed image and into the root of the boot-media, placed ndiswrapper drivers in root of boot media for [...]
This is the same Taiwanese-manufactured minipc’s that are inside every RedPost/Kit. They just added an optional LCD, keyboard, and solar panel. And are using Puppy Linux instead of DSL. Just £499. They’re doing a bit of greenwashing though…they tout it as “a sustainable computer” because it has a small motherboard (less toxins!), a simple design [...]
Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about the RedPost/Kit Contest. Master Sculptor John Mishler has had some other projects come up (that actually pay) and they always take priority!He is working on the winning design: I stopped by his studio today and took the following pictures. It’s going to be really sweet! ÂÂ
This is a live image of a RedPost/Kit installed in a lounge in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Image courtesy of BagelCam.
There’s now a RedPost/Kit installed in Benny’s Famous Deli in the Greater Toronto Area town of Milton Burlington. Attraks, an ad agency who purchased a Kit from me a month ago (from my hotel room in Kitchener) installed they sign. They’re a great group of people — very tech savvy, eco-friendly, focused on marketing in [...]
The Old Bag Factory, an old bag factory converted into artist studios/shops/restaurants here in Goshen (John Mishler, who’s working on the Kit contest winning entry, has his studio there), started a new blog recently. They pull in tourists and visitors from about a 150 mile radius…pretty impressive. And today, they plugged RedPost/Goshen! Thanks guys!
