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Store update, 2014-10-15

2014-10-15

Makelangelo #551 drawing of Audrey Hepburn for Museograph

Back orders

The long delayed Hong Kong order arrived this morning, which means all the back-ordered kits are leaving this afternoon. If you ordered a kit in the last two weeks you should already see a notice that a shipping label was printed.

Growth

Frequent orders and long lead times from suppliers means that my RFQ numbers all have an extra digit now. 100 motors at a time? Not enough. Quote me 1000, please. The warehouse is expanded, plans for resellers are starting to come together… It’s a really exciting time to be making robots!

Vacation

Now that the work of getting over the Maker Faire hump is done, I’m taking a road trip to Las Vegas. I’m looking forward to some beautiful vistas, all-inclusive hotel stays, and checking on the SYN Shop, the Las Vegas Hackspace. Why knows? Maybe I’ll even be able to pop in and say hi to Sarah and Mark at RobotArmy.com. They make a pretty sweet Delta robot.

What does this mean for you? Orders will not be flowing from the 17th to the ~28th. Shop for your heart’s desire now and we’ll get it into the mail Thursday evening.

DevFest Vancouver

DevFest is a week-long workshop-series and hackathon about bleeding-edge technologies for experienced developers taking place weeknights and over the weekend this November 3-9.

This year’s workshops cover

  • cryptocurrencies,
  • cloud-computing,
  • smart-televisions,
  • wearables,
  • 3D-printing,
  • virtual reality, and
  • microcontrollers

Yours truly will be leading the microcontroller workshop Sunday, November 9, from 10am onward.

Seats are very limited! reserve your spot early.

Classes

Last night at VHS was our first “learn to use the band saw” class. In two weeks I’ll be leading a “how to use the chop saw” class. November 1 is scheduled to be Programming 101 with LEDs. You can find out all the details for these classes on the website for the Vancouver Hack Space.

In the news

Museograph visited our booth at the NYC World’s Maker Faire 2014 and acquired a Makelangelo #551 drawing of Audrey Hepburn, the picture at the top of the post.

Have you seen Marginally Clever mentioned in the news somewhere? Let us know in the forums!