Octolively

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This page is the central documentation site for Octolively from Evil Mad Science.

Main details about Octolively:

• Announcement article at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
• Octolively product page at Evil Mad Science
• Download Octolively Datasheet (700 kB PDF file)

Assembly and usage instructions:

• Octolively is an easy through-hole soldering kit. Our heavily-illustrated assembly guide walks you through the process.

(A) Octolively Guide-- PDF version, 13 MB. (Trouble Viewing? Please click here.)

(B) Octolively Guide-- Page by page "HTML" Version

Open Source Hardware documentation:

• Octolively is an open source hardware+software project. The hardware designs are licensed under the TAPR OHL.
• The circuit board design is in gEDA. Design files (.zip archive) available here
• Octolively circuit schematic alone available here: octolively_ref.pdf
• Source code repository: Hosted at Github

Conversion to Interactive Game of Life kits:

• The Octolively kit can be modified into an Interactive Game of Life Kit, please see here for details.

Places for questions, answers, and sharing experiences:

• Forum at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
• Evil Mad Science Auxiliary Flickr Group where you can share photos of your Octolively setups