I am very pleased to announce that the energyShield is now for sale, domestically, on our website. We are also selling some accessories to compliment your energyShield, including solar panels! We are in the process of setting up some international distributors. We will list these distributors on our website when they become available. NightShade Electonics [...]
As all of you receive your energyShields we know you will be very eager to assemble them and get them powering your projects, so Jordan spent many hours yesterday finishing the product manual. It looks great and it is posted on out website (http://nightshade.net/products/energyshield) along with the Arduino library that I wrote for the fuel [...]
As of today, ALL of the rewards have been shipped! If you had an email address attached to your Kickstarter account you should have gotten an email with your tracking information. I'm looking forward to getting some feed back as you all get to start using the energyShield!
The last few weeks have been very exciting. We've moved through production, testing, and packing. Production Since the energyShield is basically just an assembled, printed circuit board (PCB) its manufacturing process is essentially the PCB assembly process. The process begins with a PCB design (that's what we did) and a parts list. The manufacturer (Jaycon [...]
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 [...]