SDK now available for download

Before anything else, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who met up with us at BUG+NY last night! We had a great time, good conversations, and some pix are online now.  Now onto the stuff you really care about.  I will start with a little note from Ken, the head of software for Bug Labs:

Many moons ago Peter and I met in a crowded starbox on a dark and stormy evening.  He had some wood blocks and visions of a computer program that made creating user-designed consumer electronics easy. There were some pictures and various notes.  Well, I'm proud to announce that the software that resulted from those early conversations has been publicly released!

Called the Dragonfly SDK, it is an Eclipse-based software development kit for the BUG.  It's designed as an easy-to-use embedded development environment with a built-in web application sharing website.  While we have not released the BUG hardware yet, a virtual one is included to play around with.  Install directions are here  or if you're an Eclipse pro here is the update site URL.  Also, we've included a minimal getting started guide here.

(thanks Ken!)

We consider the SDK in an open beta now.  Accompanying it are also discussion forums, a wiki, and BUGnet is now live (click here to register).  If you are wondering what these things have in common, it's the beginnings of our online community.  We are building out numerous components to really enhance the community experience in the future, including a BUGmodule recommendation/voting system and more.  Most important to us is that every aspect of our communications become two-way.

So, please comment on the blog, post on the forums, contribute to the wiki, and build applications for BUGnet!  We want to hear from you, tell us what you think, what you want, and what else we can do to make the BUG experience as good as possible.