Hello Pinoccio posse!

MAKER FAIRE
Do you see that photo? That’s us! Eric and Sally at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Holy moly last week was incredible! What a whirlwind. First, we attended Make’s Hardware Innovation Workshop and gave a talk. Boom! Then, on to the Bay Area Maker Faire…what a life-affirming, incredible celebration of humanity and its ingenuity.

We took photos at the Faire and have an Instagram account where you can see the likes of Massimo Banzi (creator of Arduino) and Super Awesome Sylvia wearing Pinoccio hats at our booth, check it out:

http://instagram.com/gopinoccio

Is it just me, or is everyone totally adorable in those hats?!

MEETING OUR HOMIES + WINNING RIBBONS
Meeting some of you all, our IndieGogo funders, and giving you high fives (as promised) was truly the highlight of our week. Again, thank you all! Eric and Sally each gave a presentation while at Maker Faire and we’ll send you links to the videos once they’re online. Also, we won an Editor’s Choice Award!!! It’s kind of like “Best in Show” and we got a blue ribbon to prove it! WOOO!!

GENERAL UPDATES
We’re back from our trip and great stuff is poppin’ back at the lab. We’re working hard on the software side of things, trying to get your boards talking wirelessly to the Web within moments of unboxing. Our boards for FCC pre-screening are en route to our RF Jedi. Soon, we’ll be designing packaging, so fun!

Have a great weekend everybody!

Sally & Eric

Proud People of Pinoccio!

Whoa whoa, where did the time go? I came here to update you, and IndieGogo tells me we haven’t talked in a MONTH?! Well, my apologies dear friends. We have been so head’s down cranking away on making our collective Pinoccio dreams come true that weeks seem to fly by.

We have a couple of events coming up next week, and we hope to see you there. More info here:
http://pinocc.io/blog/events/bay-area-maker-fai...

BAY AREA MAKER FAIRE – May 18-19
We’ll be there. We’ll have a booth, we’ll also be speaking (twice). If you are attending, please please please come say hi, and tell us you are a funder! We would like to high five you.

MAKE HARDWARE INNOVATION WORKSHOP – May 14-15
Another event put on by Maker Media, this one is all about the business of making. We’ll also be giving a talk there.

Like I said, we’ve been pretty head’s down working on Pinoccio. We’re working hard on the software side of things, and we’re getting great feedback from our Beta Testers. On the hardware side, we’re about to begin the FCC Certification process, wish us luck! Luckily, we have an RF jedi who is helping us through this part. Personally, I prefer to work with only jedis.

Hope you’re somewhere warm. If it’s Spring-time where you live, enjoy the blooms and busy bees!

Sally

Hello there Pinoccio compadres!

HALL OF FAME is live!
We just published our Hall of Fame page, for our honorable Hall of Fame level funders:

http://pinocc.io/hall-of-fame

If you’re a Hall of Fame funder and you want to provide us with more info — a link, a short 1-2 sentence quote, and/or an image — we want to hear from you! Just respond to the email that we sent you on March 29 titled “Pinoccio – IndieGogo Hall of Fame funders – We need your info!” with that information, and we’ll happily update your info on the Hall of Fame.

Thanks everyone! :)

Sally & Eric

Hey Pinoccio pals!

Just a quick update on how Pinoccio is coming along.

BETA KITS
Our (very small) crew of Beta Testers has their kits and are tinkering away. Did you see Jeremie Miller’s blog post about unboxing his Beta Kit? Now, mind you, your perk’s packaging is gonna be way snazzier than this. Our Beta Kits’ packaging…not so snazzy:

http://quartzjer.tumblr.com/post/46165491766/pi...

MAKE’S HARDWARE INNOVATION WORKSHOP
We’ll be speaking at this year’s Make Hardware Innovation Workshop in San Mateo, May 14-15! It’s just a few days before the Bay Area Maker Faire (we’ll be there too). The workshop is all about Maker businesses sharing what they’ve learned along the way. Eric attended last year with nothing but a print-out of an Eagle file on a folded up piece of paper. We’ve come a long way thanks to you guys! Hope to see some of you there:

http://makezine.com/hardware-innovation-workshop/

ORDERING COMPONENTS
Perhaps not the sexiest update ever, but this is how the sausage is made! We’re ordering components, woo hoooo! Come on, you know you’re excited. Yep, we’ve got a big ol’ box of WiFi modules chilling in the corner, waiting for their buddies (batteries, MCU’s, etc) to come join them. So lonely…

HALL OF FAME
We just sent an email to our Hall of Fame level funders. We need more info from you guys and gals so we can celebrate your awesomeness on our web site.

Have a great weekend everybody!

Sally & Eric

Hey Pinoccio Peeps!

We just redesigned our homepage and added a progress tracker that shows you what we’re currently working on:

http://pinocc.io

Of course, we’ll still keep you posted via these IndieGogo updates, but if you’re ever curious what we’re up to, check our homepage!

Also, if you have a buddy that keeps saying “oh man, I wish I had backed Pinoccio when I had the chance!” tell them to visit our homepage and sign up to be notified by email when we start accepting pre-orders on our site, under “Email me when Pinoccio is ready”.

Have a great weekend! :)

Eric & Sally