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Once upon a time there was a little company  that produced a little schematic and PCB layout tool called Eagle.  It was a frightfully awkward little tool to use, but it had a version that was free so many people flocked to it. Although the free version was limited in board size, layers, nodes, functionality, personality and user friendliness, it was free, so many people flocked to it.

It soon became the de-facto standard of open source hardware designs everywhere, which, unfortunately was also very limiting in what kind of hardware could be developed. Now, for a "nominal fee", you could upgrade to allow bigger boards, more layers and more electrical nodes and the users of the free software could view the designs created thus from afar, but alas, could not modify them or make much use of them in any way.

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Celeritous Technical Services, Corp. is pleased to announce the imminent release of an mBed module baseboard / breakout board designed and distributed in the US. 

We are currently completing library functions for all of the peripherals and will release the product about mid-August 2011 in bare board, assembled and kit form. Prices are to be determined. We will also be stocking all peripheral components for those wanting to populate their own board ala carte.

The mBed baseboard / breakout board provides essential IO, prototyping areas, access to all mBed signals as well as a variety of extra peripherals for rapid development of user interfaces and applications. 

The board design will also be released as open source with full schematics and layout in DesignSpark.

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In our last installment I reviewed the reaction of the health providers to my official Obamacare proof of insurance card. They all initially stare at it like like it is monopoly money until I get them to call one of the 11 "mother may I?" numbers on the back to verify it. 

As predicted, shortly after the first of October (7 weeks after application) I finally received a letter from the pre-existing condition insurance plan. 

In brief it stated my application had been approved and the premium payment must be received and "processed" before coverage would be effective and then they will inform me of my effective date of coverage. 

This is the second installment of my up close and personal experience in trying to get covered under the Federal High Risk Health Insurance Pool  segment of Obamacare. 

In the last installment I had tried to apply to our state's high risk pool with which we have had good experience with my Wife's insurance. Both of us have pre-existing conditions which preclude coverage by most plans.