We are proud to announce that the energyShield will be assembled in the USA! We are working with a company right here in Melbourne, FL known as Jaycon Systems. Jaycon is fairly well known in the DIY electronics community as a distributor, but they are, even more so, a contract manufacturer. Obviously they will assemble your [...]

As the title suggests, we have been ordering and receiving a LOT of parts. We received all of the header pins, which are pictured below. The power jacks and AC adapters are in the mail and our manufacturer has received all of the parts to assemble the energyShields. I even got to snap a picture [...]

The last few weeks have been a really busy. As I mentioned in the last update, we had sent out for a prototype design. The PCBs and parts arrived the following week. Then we assembled them and put them through some rigorous testing. In the end... it worked PERFECTLY! In the last week and a [...]

We've spent the last couple of weeks vetting the last prototype. We tested inputs from solar panels, wall adapters, and USB. We've varied the load on the energyShield. In all of this we found a few bugs. Trying to pinpoint the cause of these bugs was a challenge. Yikes! As you can see, it was [...]

As Mark Campbell reminded me, I'm overdue for a quick update. We have received the flashlights and the T-shirts! We also prototyped the next version of the energyShield and it seems that we have worked out the major bugs. However, we are still discovering and correcting some small bugs. It looks like we need to [...]

I know it’s been a while since an update, but with good reason. We’ve been working hard in NightShade’s secret laboratories to finalize the design of the energyShield and we didn’t want to spoil the surprise. Some great ideas were proposed during the campaign. The 3.3V output and breakout were unlocked during the campaign and [...]