Hello Flutter Backers,

In our last update, I shared that I was tracking down an issue with the new boards, and was waiting to ship until I had a handle on the issue. Well, I've been working on the software fix, and will be pushing that to our git repo in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, it's time to start shipping.

I'm going to ship partials starting with the highest reward tiers. That is "It's not -not- Skynet", and "A Challenger Appears". Cool note about the latter group - they will have the electronics necessary to build Scout.

Packaging supplies arrive this week, so the next step for me is to double check the necessary shipping addresses and start loading up boxes. If you are a backer at the above levels, look for an e-mail from me this week to confirm your address. Shipments for the top 53 backers will all go out before the end of June. These are partials that won't include the Pro boards, but they will have Flutter Basics, Explorer boards (formerly R/C Shield), Starter Kits, Breakouts, and for "A Challenger Appears," Remote Control boards.

While there is a lot more engineering work to be done both on the software and hardware sides, my primary focus for the next month will be on shipping these 53 boxes and on prepping for the larger shipping batch.

If I don't run in to any hiccups, I will be shipping the first batch of boxes on the weekend of June 14th, and will post a quick update when that happens.

That's all I have for the Flutter update, but I'd like to promote a friend's Kickstarter. If you love LEDs and want some easy WiFi-controllable LED strips, check out Flickerstrip. This is Julian's second successful Kickstarter after the ReFlowster oven controller, and the campaign has 12 days left. I've seen the hardware in person and it looks great so pledge now if you want awesome LED goodness.

Love,

Taylor