Serial Wombat Open Source Project
Many Serial Wombat designs are certified Open Source Hardware designs by the Open Source Hardware Association.
Jonathan Broadwell
Jon Broadwell is a maker focused on open-source embedded systems projects, primarily in conjunction with Arduino. Jon has been doing embedded systems professionally for more than 25 years and runs a consulting company focused on embedded systems and medical device development. The Serial Wombat open source project (https://SerialWombat.com ) is Jon's biggest contribution to the open source community. Jon also enjoys cooperative aesthetic projects with his wife, artist and craftsperson Marshelle Broadwell.
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What inspired you to make this project?
I spend a lot of time on Arduino and other similar forums. I found that many beginner and intermediate makers can make a project that does one thing or the other, but struggle trying to make a project that does multiple things at once. The Serial Wombat project aims to enable makers to focus on their goal rather than firmware architecture by allowing offloading of common time-based tasks to special purpose firmware and microcontrollers
What are some of the challenges you have encountered and how did you address them?
Building a community and gathering feedback has been the biggest challenge. I'm currently addressing this by attending Makerfaires in order to increase exposure and talk to other makers.