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Hardware
Boards built to be opened, changed and kept.
Nothing here is released yet. This is the shape of the catalogue, the categories it will grow into, and the standard every Koala Embedded board has to meet before it ships.
Categories
Six places for hardware to live
Categories exist before the products do, so the catalogue can grow without being redesigned. Each one will fill up as boards are finished.
Hackable boards and drop-in modules built to be reprogrammed, not replaced. Headers, test points and a published pinout.
In developmentEverything needed to build one complete thing, with the guide written before the kit is boxed.
In developmentWays to measure the world and talk to the rest of your bench, with the bus and voltage stated up front.
In developmentRunning on batteries, solar or a long cable, a long way from a desk and a long way from a reset button.
In developmentSmall practical instruments for building, probing and fixing - including fixing things we did not make.
In developmentCables, carriers, enclosures and the small parts that hold a project together on a shelf or in a field.
In developmentCatalogue
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First boards are on the bench
No hardware is for sale yet. When a board is finished it will appear here with its price, its documentation, its firmware profiles and a link to buy it - and not one minute before.
Standards
What makes Koala hardware different?
These are the rules we are holding ourselves to. They are commitments about how a product is made and documented - not claims about test results we have not run.
It is meant to be reprogrammed
Exposed programming and debug interfaces, a documented way to recover a bricked board, and no lock-out between you and the microcontroller you paid for.
The documentation ships with it
A published pinout, a schematic-level description of what is connected to what, the voltage and current limits that matter, and the known rough edges.
Software keeps it useful
Firmware profiles give one board several genuinely different jobs, so a board bought for one project can be redirected to the next one instead of retired.
It is designed to be worked on
Parts you can reach, connectors instead of glue where it is practical, silkscreen you can actually read, and notes on which components are replaceable.
Revisions are tracked in the open
Board revisions get published notes. If revision B behaves differently from revision A, that difference is written down rather than discovered by you.
No claims we cannot back
No invented specifications, no borrowed certifications, no environmental numbers without a source. If a figure is not on this site, it is because we do not have it yet.
Buying happens on Shopify
Checkout, payment, stock and shipping are handled by our Shopify store. This site links out to it; it does not run a cart, an account system or an order lookup of its own.
Format
Every product page will look like this
A worked example of the product page layout, with every section labelled and every unknown value left honestly blank.