We try to foresee these issues and prevent them from happening as early as possible, but in many cases it's less than trivial. In this case for example, the supplier provided good samples and then it failed when it came to mass production. We could have asked for more samples but mass production is quite a different ballgame than samples, so it'd have surely added to the delay without adding too much assurance. Luckily, our new pad priting supplier does seem to care a whole lot more, and András will personally supervise them in the beginning of the production run to make sure nothing goes wrong this time.

We definitely won't rush it. 🙂 Luckily, the vast majority of our backers understand this quality-first mindset.

So don't trust your suppliers too much (don't believe their nice words) and stay and watch them closely. Even ask them many times to send samples. The first time they everything right but then ...... it's going downwards.

Oh, don't get rushed by people starting to scream about delivery times and status updates. They should understand that writing updates slows production down because you cannot be at two places at the same time. So keep going and after the production, back to the drawingboard for the addons 🙂

We had to find an alternate pad priting supplier since the earlier wasn't up to par. The manufacturing of batch 1 shall launch next week.

We're knee-deep in launching manufacturing and currently focus all our efforts on it. We'll give some much needed love to the modules right after this madness settles down a bit. We can't wait to work on them soon!

It's actually updated. We're about to launch the weekly batches this week or the next.

Hi Dylan, Feel free to change your address at https://www.crowdsupply.com/account - Thanks so much for your support!