Into the void?

If you email me with a question and do not receive a reply within 24 hours, please email me again. I always respond to emails, usually within 1-2 hours. A lot of people write me, expressing interest in a device but with some questions. I never hear from them again. This may be intentional, but it happens enough to make me wonder if my responses are not getting through.

~flight

Must share this one

Some randomly-generated spam I just received:

"Deliberately the pants foolishly break across the crooked museums. The boiling restaurant beyond a filthy and great forest anxiously and accidentally count a long zoo beside the wet backyard."

Pure poetry...

fixed?

Just finished(?)tweaking the site. A few browser compatibility issues were pointed out to me yesterday (IE7 of course), and I've been trying to get them all fixed. I've tested it out in Firefox2, IE7, Opera, and Safari - should work better now. Let me know if I missed anything please!

~flight

Everything happens at once...

Now that the madness of developing the Parasite is over, we can tell you about some new developments and upcoming offerings.

• Some of our behind-the-scenes business deals were finalized yesterday, enabling us to receive much better volume pricing on many components and services. Now we get to pass the savings on to you as well! For starters, the price of the Parasite is now just $185.00.
• A stash of the enclosures used to build both the Parasite and the Plague Bearer has been discovered! We are happy to announce a run of twenty v1.1 Plague Bearers, at $240 each. Version 1.1 has a few changes, mostly internal – PCB layout tweaks and Power Supply changes. The patch panel will be all 3.5mm jacks as well. The Parasite v1.0 run has been extended to 50.

Upcoming:

• Modular versions of the Plague Bearer, Parasite, and the Infernal Noise Machine are in development.
• The standalone version of the I.N.M and the Imp should be available soon, with custom wood enclosures, which leads us to:
• We have expanded our crony resource list to include a custom cabinetry manufacturer, and will be offering custom wood enclosures soon.
• And a few more things to be revealed in the future…

I is a good monkey!

The Parasite samples are up!

Crap

Sorry, I wasn't able to get the samples up today. I'll definitely have them up tomorrow.

~flight

The Parasite is here

The Parasite lives! The web page is here. There are now 10 available, potentially a few more in the near future but no promises there. I've got to say, this little bastard kicked my ass a few times until I beat it into submission! The design process goes like this:

1. Have a few circuits floating around yer gray matter.
2. See a really cool case that just begs to be used.
3. See how many controls you can fit into the available panel area.
4. Now, how many I/Os can be finagled therein?
5. Which of the aforementioned circuits match the number determined in #3 above?
6. Start cramming!
7. Cuss, curse, rage, pout and otherwise terrify your neighbors until the circuit has been whittled down sufficiently to fit.
8. Hope like Hell that somebody makes the components you need in the dimensions you require.
9. My least favorite part: assuming the previous item works out, try to find a distributor that carries the damn thing!
10. Wash, rinse, repeat as necessary.

ANYway... pics of the prototype are up. Go look! Orders are now being taken, please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.

~flight