Surprise good news, a pallet of IO plates arrived today out of the blue, so the deluxe kits are a go! We're still waiting on our product boxes but they're on the way

Alright so it's been 32 days since I submitted the last update and it's still not live, so I'm going to be doing updates here I guess 1/N

The six crates of batch 2 FlippyDrives for January have safely arrived and we're getting started testing, programming, and packaging!

New album just dropped

I'm giving the ultimate holiday gift to random strangers this year

I didn't know I needed integrated thermal printers in my life until now

I'm still waiting for the actual IO plates to finish production, but I'm pretty happy with the design even 3D printed

Ethernet and WiFi is finally fixed. Let's never troubleshoot a race condition between 4 different processors on 4 different ISAs ever again please

Ethernet panels look good too!

So that's what 18000 flex PCBs look like

Batch 2 is getting assembled now, about 2 weeks ahead of schedule!

Status update! We've now got all but 1 component in our electrical BOM secured with the last reels arriving in a week or so. The next batch is looking slightly ahead of the original schedule which is awesome

Woooooo!

Symphonia Green GameCube with Flippydrive and Cubeboot 💚 Thanks @chrispville.bsky.social & @trevor.rudol.ph!

Everyone getting a flippy in the next few days, review the install docs. Each angry red text box is somebody's grave, so learn from their mistakes. docs.flippydrive.com/installation...

Flippies are at Mouser, things are imminent

Totally worth catching lycanthropy to see

Uhhhh there's howling and a giant moon just rose behind me, I'm scared

No guarantees I'll actually be able to get a picture, but the comet simulates nicely

The November batch of 1000 flippydrives are off to Mouser! They'll likely ship to individuals next week

Holy pizza rolls, there seems to be a mass migration from twitter to here suddenly. What did musk do this time?

I helped build that! specifically part of the Europa Imaging System. If you read about the imager malfunctioning and pointing off in the wrong direction, you know who to blame. I also totally did not and would never sneak a SETI message into its memory

packpackpackpackpack

Just gotta put the labels on and the first batch will be away!

This is the most satisfying thing I've ever done with my phone

Thanks everyone who helped make the FlippyDrive happen. When we started, I honestly expected like 600 people would be interested tops, and it's been crazy to see how many people want one

bulk programming! With this lil thing going now, I'm able to easily do 300 an hour

The FlippyDrive Livestream went great! It was so fun presenting with @chrispville.bsky.social

FlippyDrive stream and a few giveaways today at 3PM ET/7PM GMT. Mostly Q&A plus demos for whatever you want to see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm8W...

I also sometimes fix cameras with a CNC milling machine, despite my general dislike of 35mm: www.dyxum.com/dforum/dynax...

Macho Nacho covered some of the more recent FlippyDrive updates youtu.be/1-LWI2tGfhQ?...

The problem with making hundreds of these is they're getting randomly stuck to my hands, my clothes, even the floor somehow. Just diffusing throughout the house

Big stickies!

Case badge!

FlippyDrive ordering is live! We blew though the in-stock units instantly, so we're on to future batches www.crowdsupply.com/team-offbroa...

We just got the green light: FlippyDrive will launch tomorrow Aug 22 at 1PM EDT, 5PM GMT on CrowdSupply!

Just another day in a shithole country

I got bored waiting for the product launch so I made a 4 channel, solderless, internal, auto wired passthrough WaveBird receiver. Plenty left to do and the flippydrive takes priority, but since I'm mostly waiting on other people, I figured I'd do something useful

Oooops. I accidentally cross processed some color 4x5s in black and white. People online say it doesn't produce good results, but it looks decent enough to me. You know, minus the $15 mistake

FlippySea

So news! We've just signed an agreement with Crowd Supply to handle distribution of the FlippyDrive. The 1000+ units in stock will become early bird rewards for quick shipment. This gets us access to easy global shipping, VAT prepayment, etc. and let's us scale fast with the shortest possible delay

neat

Ethernet goes here

Average dev setup be like

Got me some flexes for the Panasonic Q

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Looks like there's one good mounting option for the Panasonic Q. I'm working on the flex now, but if it works I should be able to get a small quantity of Q install kits made in time

It's finally happening! I got the Ethernet prototypes working well enough to be confident Rev6 hardware is go for production. Batch 1 will be sent for assembly shortly, so if all goes to plan, FlippyDrive will be ready for launch by the end of the month.

That's a lot of boxes

Spellcheck knows what's up