@ron85 They did! You beat me to it, I was just about to provide an update on that.
Great news all, we had the two new boxes of bristle strip arrive yesterday and although it didnāt exactly arrive as we expected they still work good and fit our existing plastic bristle ring parts We assembled 100 bristle rings with the new bristle strip and now have 100 full machines worth of parts ready to ship in the office. This enabled us to package up and ship out 32 machines in just the last two days, this now puts us at backer #149. Weāre still fully on track to ship all Kickstarter machines by mid-December, with potentially 80-90 machines to be shipped out just next week.
One hiccup that we encountered this week was that there were a few individuals with control box issues that were very strange. After arranging to get those boxes shipped back to us and after us running some testing, weāve found that there were some manufacturer error with the driver boards that we ordered. There were a couple people with this issue, so we went ahead and tested 50 control boxes for the same issue and we found that there were 2 bad boxes out of the 50. This is enough that weāll now be running quick functional testing on every box leaving our office from now on. This also will be prompting a conversation that weāll be having with our manufacturer about board reliability for machines in the future.
Hope that brings you all up to speed on our current progress now
@mfgnerd Looking at our packing list I can see your machine has been assembled and is ready to go, I think Ikenna should get to sending you a notification in the next few days on the machine status and tracking #
@jwoody18 Haha the question was asked and the stack of boxes happened to be sitting right next to me, what are the odds? Right now the aim is to ship all Kickstarter orders by the end of next week, then to have 50-ish of the website orders fulfilled the week after that before we all collapse from exhaustion to take some time to recuperate over the holidays. If your order doesnāt fall within that range then youāll be looking to receive in the New Year. Maybe cross your fingers and toes for 353, eh?
@Sanityfree ah yes, for a brief moment there I mustāve forgotten how to count
Officially shipped 75 machines this week putting us now at backer #247! that and weāve already got another 13 machines packed and ready to ship for next week.
OOkay, I just realized that I may have formatted this in a way which is confusing and possibly misleading. The Kickstarter backer numbers go up to #341 but only account for about 303 machines sold, so when I added the numbered list of website orders above I thought Iād start at #304 and go forwards from there. This will probably lead to a period of confusion where I say that āweāve shipped machines up to #320ā (for example) and it wonāt be clear whether thatās the backer # or the machine #. I think to combat this Iāll put out an official announcement once the Kickstarter orders have been fulfilled, so that everyone will know that weāve now moved on to fulfilling website orders. I hope this clears everything up
We assembled 100 bristle rings with the new bristle strip and now have 100 full machines worth of parts ready to ship in the office. This enabled us to package up and ship out 32 machines in just the last two days, this now puts us at backer #149. Weāre still fully on track to ship all Kickstarter machines by mid-December, with potentially 80-90 machines to be shipped out just next week.
Ready to head out the door tomorrow
Any chance before NYE?
Right now the aim is to ship all Kickstarter orders by the end of next week, then to have 50-ish of the website orders fulfilled the week after that before we all collapse from exhaustion to take some time to recuperate over the holidays. If your order doesnāt fall within that range then youāll be looking to receive in the New Year. Maybe cross your fingers and toes for 353, eh?
that and weāve already got another 13 machines packed and ready to ship for next week.