The final production push for the first 50 kits is underway – and it’s starting to feel very real.
The whole family’s pitching in – here’s my wife, Emily, preparing enclosures: gluing in bezels, soldering in brass threaded-inserts, and more!
Completed enclosures line up to be packed.
And more wait to receive attention.
In the meantime, all the PCBs have received their SMD parts.
Ready to find their way into the hands of music maker around the world – we’re so excited!
I’m nearing a version of the firmware that I wouldn’t be embarrassed to ship with the first kits. Luckily, easy over-the-web firmware updates means things are not set in stone, and I plan to be very responsive to bug reports and feature suggestions from the user community.
With the per-voice features now just about done, I made a video to walk through the current capabilities.
With most of the parts now in our hands, we’ve started packing kits and doing the SMD soldering of the ESP32 microcontrollers.
Fifty ESP32s soldered, fifty tested and working A-OK! Next, the neopixel sticks on the other side of the PCB.
In addition to applying final touches to the V1 firmware, we’re making things official by registering a business entity here in Taiwan dedicated to all things Groovesizer. The official company name needs to be in Chinese and we’re happy to report that we’ll be operating as MoShang Music Technology locally, and Groovesizer abroad.
Parts for the first 50 kits are continuing to arrive and we are hard at work packing kits. To allow for a few more stragglers, we’ve adjusted out expected launch date to May 1st.
Microcontrollers, battery holders, audio modules and more!
In the meantime we’ve added complete build instructions. Head on over to https://groovesizer.com/build-it-mynah/ to see if you’re up for the challenge of soldering your own Mynah.
Exciting times! The PCBs for the first limited run of 50 Mynah kits have arrived.
Now it’s time to build one of these puppies and document the process for the build manual.
