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Megajolt Lite Jr V4… Rev D

Freescale, You Tormentor It happened with the V3 controller when Freescale obsoleted the KX8 processor we were using.  This prompted us to move to the V4 design with the similar, slightly more capable QB8.  We mitigated the situation, moving many components to surface-mount to enhance ruggedness and stuffed it into a much prettier case. However,…

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And the winner..

Hey, we have a winner! WinnerS that is!  So we has some awesome T-shirt design submissions over the course of the contest period. It was actually really hard to choose the top two designs, so we chose two, plus combined two funny/cool designs together and declared 4 winners. Why? cause we’re just full of love…

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Megajolt T-Shirt design contest!

Can you beat that tag line? I bet you can. Here at ASL headquarters we banged our heads together for a microsecond and had the brilliant, incredibly unique idea of launching a Megajolt t-shirt design contest! Theme-wise just about anything goes:  cool, funny, ironic, edgy, smug, even slightly risque would be considered (double entendre’, anyone?). …

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A Special Delivery

Forklift, Please What’s in this crate? Why it’s a shiny, new, custom enclosure for future projects! No, not the red one we blogged about earlier- that’s for the likes of projects such as RaceCapture and Megajolt2. Rather, these are more oriented toward compact designs like the current Megajolt ignition controller and other toys we’re working…

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Living up to a Name

Today- today is the day we make the final move to our ‘new’ Lab!  Yes, the one we’ve been preparing for months.  This blog post is a nod towards company boot-strapping, being the right size at the right time, and making do with what you have.  Oh, and having R&D work spill into the packing/shipping…

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