S2 Production Status!
Ken Gracey
Posts: 7,392
Hey all,
The S2's production cycle is well-underway at the moment. We're moving through the middle stages of the process: pre-prototypes, prototypes, first articles, first production articles, etc. There's a major commitment to bringing this product to market: skilled engineering in software, hardware, plastic, analog design; financial commitment to production runs in excess of 5,000 units; Q/A and Q/C processes; and design interaction among key customers who use hundreds or thousands of Scribblers per year. If you buy one of these I can assure you that your money goes right back into the product line in terms of applications, videos, hacks, etc.
This robot is designed around the Propeller. It seems to be the perfect application. This robot is also 100% open-sourced, obligation-free!
Absolutely critical to this team:
Phil Pilgrim, Bueno Systems - S2 GUI and Prop firmware
Ben Wirz, Element Inc. - S2 hardware design and manufacturing liason
Parallax staff: Ari Alvarez, Daniel Harris, Kevin Cook, Jen Jacobs, Stephanie Lindsay, Raymond Xiao
Customers: Georgia Tech
The list of contributors is so long that I can't even name everybody. It would be a long list as if forum member JonnyMac were thanking all of his Hollywood friends when he receives his first Grammy award.
I'm expecting these in inventory late November to mid-December. There's a possibility that your first order could be placed through Woot, also.
Below you'll see pieces of the most recent step in the process - final packaging, booklet and production prototypes. That's a GA Tech "Fluke" mounted on the S2.
Thank you for reading!
Ken Gracey
Parallax Inc.
The S2's production cycle is well-underway at the moment. We're moving through the middle stages of the process: pre-prototypes, prototypes, first articles, first production articles, etc. There's a major commitment to bringing this product to market: skilled engineering in software, hardware, plastic, analog design; financial commitment to production runs in excess of 5,000 units; Q/A and Q/C processes; and design interaction among key customers who use hundreds or thousands of Scribblers per year. If you buy one of these I can assure you that your money goes right back into the product line in terms of applications, videos, hacks, etc.
This robot is designed around the Propeller. It seems to be the perfect application. This robot is also 100% open-sourced, obligation-free!
Absolutely critical to this team:
Phil Pilgrim, Bueno Systems - S2 GUI and Prop firmware
Ben Wirz, Element Inc. - S2 hardware design and manufacturing liason
Parallax staff: Ari Alvarez, Daniel Harris, Kevin Cook, Jen Jacobs, Stephanie Lindsay, Raymond Xiao
Customers: Georgia Tech
The list of contributors is so long that I can't even name everybody. It would be a long list as if forum member JonnyMac were thanking all of his Hollywood friends when he receives his first Grammy award.
I'm expecting these in inventory late November to mid-December. There's a possibility that your first order could be placed through Woot, also.
Below you'll see pieces of the most recent step in the process - final packaging, booklet and production prototypes. That's a GA Tech "Fluke" mounted on the S2.
Thank you for reading!
Ken Gracey
Parallax Inc.
1000 x 750 - 219K
Comments
Robert
Thank you, Robert. Once I've got certainty about regarding the ship date we'll start enabling backorders. We don't want too much time between the day we enable backorders and ship the first robots - customers start to bail out if they have to wait too long and our internal sales staff starts to field calls about delivery dates. We can minimize the potential for these problems once the situation solidifies, in a couple of weeks.
Robert
Thanks for the detailed update. Looks like it may be in time for Christmas!
Would like to see the same time line for some adopted Penguins too! :0
Jim
So it's a good thing Ken stopped favoring me when he gave me the last 250 discontinued Toddler robots.
You can't begin to imagine all the images and icons with blue Scribblers I've similarly had to Photoshop to get the S2 GUI ready for show time! I spent all of yesterday and today just on the Help file images. And, yes, like yours, there were some blue pixels that still needed touching up by hand.
-Phil
I'm dressing them up as FAKE Penguin robots for Halloween. My walking, swarming army of Trick or Treating Toddlers will own the sidewalks of Los Angeles on Sunday night and ALL of the candy collected will be MINE, MINE, MINE!
lol!!
Why is it with candy that a "fun size" is always small? ... that's not fun at all!! Give me the BIG-CHUNK candy bar, now that's a fun size!!:smilewinkgrin:
I want one bad! Just had my first robotics club meeting - couldn't help whipping the kids into a frenzy over this! They are now crazed.
LOL!
"The Scribblers were charging by the chimney with care..."