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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Surprise good news, a pallet of IO plates arrived today out of the blue, so the deluxe kits are a go! We're still waiting on our product boxes but they're on the way

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Alright so it's been 32 days since I submitted the last update and it's still not live, so I'm going to be doing updates here I guess 1/N

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The six crates of batch 2 FlippyDrives for January have safely arrived and we're getting started testing, programming, and packaging!

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I'm giving the ultimate holiday gift to random strangers this year

Programming writable NFC tags in store with Never Gonna Give You Up

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I didn't know I needed integrated thermal printers in my life until now

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I'm still waiting for the actual IO plates to finish production, but I'm pretty happy with the design even 3D printed

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Ethernet and WiFi is finally fixed. Let's never troubleshoot a race condition between 4 different processors on 4 different ISAs ever again please

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

So that's what 18000 flex PCBs look like

18000 flex PCBs in box, banana for scale

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Batch 2 is getting assembled now, about 2 weeks ahead of schedule!

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Status update! We've now got all but 1 component in our electrical BOM secured with the last reels arriving in a week or so. The next batch is looking slightly ahead of the original schedule which is awesome

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YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Symphonia Green GameCube with Flippydrive and Cubeboot 💚 Thanks @chrispville.bsky.social & @trevor.rudol.ph!

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Everyone getting a flippy in the next few days, review the install docs. Each angry red text box is somebody's grave, so learn from their mistakes. docs.flippydrive.com/installation...

docs.flippydrive.com

Installation - FlippyDrive DocsContentsMenuExpandLight modeDark modeAuto light/dark modeAuto light/dark, in light modeAuto light/dark, in dark mode

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Flippies are at Mouser, things are imminent

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Totally worth catching lycanthropy to see

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Uhhhh there's howling and a giant moon just rose behind me, I'm scared

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

No guarantees I'll actually be able to get a picture, but the comet simulates nicely

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

The November batch of 1000 flippydrives are off to Mouser! They'll likely ship to individuals next week

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Holy pizza rolls, there seems to be a mass migration from twitter to here suddenly. What did musk do this time?

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

I helped build that! specifically part of the Europa Imaging System. If you read about the imager malfunctioning and pointing off in the wrong direction, you know who to blame. I also totally did not and would never sneak a SETI message into its memory

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Just gotta put the labels on and the first batch will be away!

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

This is the most satisfying thing I've ever done with my phone

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Thanks everyone who helped make the FlippyDrive happen. When we started, I honestly expected like 600 people would be interested tops, and it's been crazy to see how many people want one

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

bulk programming! With this lil thing going now, I'm able to easily do 300 an hour

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Trevor Rudolph @trevor.rudol.ph · 26/09/2024

The FlippyDrive Livestream went great! It was so fun presenting with @chrispville.bsky.social

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

FlippyDrive stream and a few giveaways today at 3PM ET/7PM GMT. Mostly Q&A plus demos for whatever you want to see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm8W...

youtube.com

Teardown session 45: FlippyDrive, the solderless optical drive emulator for the GameCube

YouTube video by Crowd Supply

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

I also sometimes fix cameras with a CNC milling machine, despite my general dislike of 35mm: www.dyxum.com/dforum/dynax...

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

The problem with making hundreds of these is they're getting randomly stuck to my hands, my clothes, even the floor somehow. Just diffusing throughout the house

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

FlippyDrive ordering is live! We blew though the in-stock units instantly, so we're on to future batches www.crowdsupply.com/team-offbroa...

crowdsupply.com

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

We just got the green light: FlippyDrive will launch tomorrow Aug 22 at 1PM EDT, 5PM GMT on CrowdSupply!

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Just another day in a shithole country

"Depression Screening form costs $15" Thanks America, you suck

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I got bored waiting for the product launch so I made a 4 channel, solderless, internal, auto wired passthrough WaveBird receiver. Plenty left to do and the flippydrive takes priority, but since I'm mostly waiting on other people, I figured I'd do something useful

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

Oooops. I accidentally cross processed some color 4x5s in black and white. People online say it doesn't produce good results, but it looks decent enough to me. You know, minus the $15 mistake

A 4x5 color negative processed as black and white

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

So news! We've just signed an agreement with Crowd Supply to handle distribution of the FlippyDrive. The 1000+ units in stock will become early bird rewards for quick shipment. This gets us access to easy global shipping, VAT prepayment, etc. and let's us scale fast with the shortest possible delay

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Got me some flexes for the Panasonic Q

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Looks like there's one good mounting option for the Panasonic Q. I'm working on the flex now, but if it works I should be able to get a small quantity of Q install kits made in time

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ChrisPVille @chrispville.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

It's finally happening! I got the Ethernet prototypes working well enough to be confident Rev6 hardware is go for production. Batch 1 will be sent for assembly shortly, so if all goes to plan, FlippyDrive will be ready for launch by the end of the month.

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