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2016 Year-End Update

Jesse Vincent

Hello from Oakland, First up, please accept our apologies for the tardiness of this month’s backer update. We welcomed our son Ira Aaron Vincent into the family on December 3...

2016 Year-End Update

Jesse Vincent

Hello from Oakland, First up, please accept our apologies for the tardiness of this month’s backer update. We welcomed our son Ira Aaron Vincent into the family on December 3...

November 2016: Inching towards mass production

Jesse Vincent

TL;DR: Updated stand design; making progress on firmware; resolving issues with injection molded parts; PVT looking like December, with mass production to follow. Hello from Oakland! Electrical Engineering When we...

November 2016: Inching towards mass production

Jesse Vincent

TL;DR: Updated stand design; making progress on firmware; resolving issues with injection molded parts; PVT looking like December, with mass production to follow. Hello from Oakland! Electrical Engineering When we...

What $50 Buys You at Huaqiangbei, the World’s M...

Jesse Vincent

What $50 Buys You at Huaqiangbei, the World’s Most Fascinating Electronic Market Unsurprisingly, setting up manufacturing has meant that Jesse’s been spending…rather a lot of time in Shenzhen. Mostly, his...

What $50 Buys You at Huaqiangbei, the World’s M...

Jesse Vincent

What $50 Buys You at Huaqiangbei, the World’s Most Fascinating Electronic Market Unsurprisingly, setting up manufacturing has meant that Jesse’s been spending…rather a lot of time in Shenzhen. Mostly, his...

Model 01 Day 453: Working through issues with s...

Jesse Vincent

Hello from Portland, Oregon! TL;DR We finally got a full sample of the enclosure + feet + interconnect bars. There’s a problem with reverse-tilt configurations. The factory is on it....

Model 01 Day 453: Working through issues with s...

Jesse Vincent

Hello from Portland, Oregon! TL;DR We finally got a full sample of the enclosure + feet + interconnect bars. There’s a problem with reverse-tilt configurations. The factory is on it....

Model 01 Kickstarter Day 420: Hinges and feet ...

Jesse Vincent

TL;DR: Jesse extended his trip to Shenzhen by a week. We’ve solved many of the issues mentioned in the last update. The first samples made by the factory weren’t quite...

Model 01 Kickstarter Day 420: Hinges and feet ...

Jesse Vincent

TL;DR: Jesse extended his trip to Shenzhen by a week. We’ve solved many of the issues mentioned in the last update. The first samples made by the factory weren’t quite...

Model 01 Kickstarter Day 393: Production Schedule

Jesse Vincent

TL;DR: We negotiated and signed a manufacturing agreement with a factory. Jesse got on a plane to China. Kaia wired a six figure deposit to Hong Kong. We have a...

Model 01 Kickstarter Day 393: Production Schedule

Jesse Vincent

TL;DR: We negotiated and signed a manufacturing agreement with a factory. Jesse got on a plane to China. Kaia wired a six figure deposit to Hong Kong. We have a...