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As of now we have a new Mounting Plate as well as a new Rail Mounting Kit in our Shop.

The Mounting Plate has a size of 120x60mm with 22x10 holes in a 5mm grid.

The Mounting Plate comes with four self-adhesive non-slip rubber feet and a Mounting Plate Connector. With the connector it is possible to string together several Mounting Plates:

With the Rail Mounting Kit it is possible to mount nearly all Bricks and Bricklets on DIN rail:

The mounting to the rail itself is done with 1x WAGO 288-001 Mounting Carrier and 2x WAGO 288-002 Mounting Foot. On the Mounting Carrier you can mount nearly all Bricks and Bricklets to a 42x62mm PMMA plate.

Additionally to the new mounting possibilities there will be compatible cases for Bricklets in the near future, stay tuned!

As in the previous year, we will be at the Elektor Live as an exhibitor.

This year the Elektor Live will take place on 13th October in the Congress Park of Hanau. Besides our building blocks we will present the different starter kits which will be available until then. We look forward to meet some of you guys there.

Based on the many different feature requests, we can finally release the new Ethernet Extension. The Customer wishes included PoE support, such that a whole stack of Bricks and Bricklets can be powered by an Ethernet cable. Another request was, that the Ethernet jack is on the Extension itself, a two-circuit-board solution was not desired. Since there is not much height available in the stack, most of the Ethernet jacks were out of the question. In the end we had to find a manufacturer that could produce a custom Ethernet jack for us, which supports PoE and has an acceptable height. This was one of the reasons for the long waiting time before the release.

But now it’s happening, the Ethernet Extension is available in the shop. It has an introductory price of 49.99€ (valid until June 30th).

The introductory price of 99.99€ (compared of the regular pice of 130.33€) will be extended until June 6th.

The magazines c’t Hardware Hacks and Elektor are reporting about the Starter Kit: Weather Station in their current issues. We extended the discount by two weeks (until June 6th). This will allow Elektor and c’t readers to still receive the introductory discount.

In response to many requests we have developed a small demo appplication for the weather station. It can be used to test the weather station after installation of Brickd.

The application implements three example projects. In the first example the measurements will simply be displayed on the LCD. The second one allows you to switch between different modes with the buttons of the LCD 20x4 Bricklet. It displays graphs, min, max and average values. The third project implementation can be configured to upload the measurements to Xively (Cosm).

For further information take a look at the documentation.