Time for another Robot update.
@Mr Smoke No More - Thanks for the vote of confidence but as the eldest statesman of the VX team, it is quite alright that I am not hip. As long as we are listening to our future customer base and execute to produce kick ass vapes, then I am a happy Robot.
@NYC Vape - Thank you for the kind words!
@ohigho - We don't have a huge marketing budget, we spent most of our money on research and development. We figured, if we build a bad ass vaporizer, the vaporists will come, but we do know that people need to know about the vape for us to succeed so your efforts are very much appreciated.
@quomist - I thought it was SM55 that keeps voting "all day, every day" good to know it wasn't him this whole time
@llamaman - your questions is answered below in the update.
Onto the update!
PN3K (Jeff, the engineer) has made the changes to the design along the lines of what I posed last time. These have been passed along to our industrial designer for incorporation into the CAD files. As soon as theyre done, we FTP the files to the enclosure manufacturer so they can revise the molds.
In other news, SM55 did quite a bit of testing over this past weekend. It was a good news, not-so-good news situation. To be specific, the heating element worked too well. The enclosure (along with the heat shield) got too hot to hold with your bare hand. This is not OK.
So today PN3K ordered three different insulating materials. One of which looks particularly promising. Its called Aerogel (commonly referred to as Liquid Smoke). You can check it out here if you like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel We should receive the sample thereof (along with the two other, less bitchin materials) in the next few days. Testing will commence immediately upon receipt no sleep for PN3K Im afraid. If all goes well, we will have solved the final piece of the proverbial puzzle.
In other news, the website is up. It changes on an almost daily basis as we add content here and there. Some of it will be new to you folks, some will not. I think youll find it entertaining as well as informative.
We are going to add a pre-order page over the next couple days too. We wont charge your card until we ship though. To make it worth your while, we will be offering a discount for those of you who pre-purchase one of the first 1,000 units (details will be spelled out on the website). After that, its back to full price. Were going to throw in some bonus loot too (e.g., stickers, t-shirts, maybe, and maybe some other stuff). Stay tuned
Lastly, we made a few design changes to The Cloud that are just plain f*cking cool. Why? Because PN3K is a stud and thought them up while, ahem, testing with SM55 this past weekend. But Im not gonna spill the beans on those just yet we want to have a few surprises for you boys come release time.
Thats all for now. As always, thanks for your patience and continued interest guys. You have my word that we will not disappoint you.
- Robot
