We’ve been selling a lot of pre-assembled North Paws over the last few months, and we’ve had several people write in with issues about distorted directions. Turns out these people either hadn’t calibrated, or couldn’t figure out how to get calibration to work – and I agree, understanding it from our written description (second last […]

The North Paw is now available at Think Geek!. I’m super impressed with the quality of their marketing – the illustration to the right very quickly conveys how the device works, much better than a verbal description is capable of doing. I’ve found lots of people think, even after a good description of how it […]

We’ve recently discovered a small problem with the compass modules included in the most recent lot of North Paw kits. For some reason, in the default sensitivity setting (1.3 gauss), about 1/3 of the time now, the x axis will overflow, and report -4095 instead of whatever the reading should be. This shouldn’t happen, since […]

For quite a while we’ve been offering an assembly service, where for $70 we will custom assemble a North Paw after you order it. This service has been somewhat popular, accounting for perhaps 10% of North Paw sales in total. As of today, we’re switching to instead offering pre-assembled North Paws, made in batches, which […]

Announcing the next version of North Paw, North Paw V2.0! The new version looks identical externally to the V1.6 North Paw that we’ve been selling for about a year, and internally it’s much the same as well. The only difference is the compass module itself. The HM55B 2-axis compass module that we used to use […]

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the new V1.6 North Paw kits! These kits are very similar to the V1.5 kits, except that the enclosure has been changed to a small black plastic box. This change was made mostly because it was very very time consuming to make the laser cut acrylic enclosures, both […]

We sure are excited to hear from a bunch of new people after this Wired article. But, it did hit us a bit by surprise; we had yet to update our North Paw inventory numbers as we were right in the middle of getting more kits together. But fear not! More kits are ready now, […]