Had them groove the motor shaft in 2 places to "capture" the wheel with tiny c-clips. Works pretty good and makes a nice straight wheel. Also, because of all the social media for Skoobot, I kept going over my 1G data on my iPhone. I upped to 5GB.
Kind of learning here, but this is a email list generator called MailChimp. I direct people here, they enter their email, and then I can email them when Kickstarter starts.
I sold 2 with 6 left and 1 more day, Sunday, to go. I grew my email list, gave out tons of business cards, and got great feedback on markets and applications. People like it, then barf at the home-built prototype retail price. I'll likely have some to sell after the faire, but I have to lower the price. But then this sucks for the people who paid the full price. Not sure how I will fix this if I do it.
Made 5 programmers/chargers, 5 Skoobot mainboards, and 5 Skoobot daugtherboards. The Skoobot boards are double sided 4-layer. I am getting more experience and learning a lot. I had tomb stoning and a twisted component on the mainboard, but the daugtherboards all came out clean, no solder jumpers, twisted components or tomb stones. It is kind of hard work. I have 2 days now to assemble the 5 robots and rework others before Makerfaire.
Bill Weiler
