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It’s been a long month so far, but everything here is going well.
We were held up a week longer than expected solving our SD card socket issue, but that is past us now and work has been performed (and retested) on all units. We’re going to make one more hardware revision (a few resistor swaps) to all units next week, to get output gain levels spot on perfect.
Last week, HD sync timings were tested beautifully on both TBC2 and Chromagnon, which was a huge milestone. This week we tested more formats and next week Jonah will continue with these tests as well as the review of the remaining Chromagnon PCBs.
On the firmware side, our two biggest deliverables are integrating the scaler HDL modules in all formats (something Ed is working on) and finishing a release of the engine (which is the GUI and node control app, that I am working on.) I am putting in 80 hour weeks on this software project, and expect to finish sometime in the next few days. After I finish, I’ll switch over to testing/QA mode.
On the Chromagnon side, the control PCB is now in production! This is where all the hand labor is, so the workshop is in full swing with it, when not on the red-alert tasks (TBC2). We also finalized our plastic parts and have RFQs out with our molding shops; we should have the plastic parts sometime in February.
The next update you’ll get from us on TBC2 is that release candidate firmware is being tested. Then, within the week after that notice, we’ll start shipping everything out. I don’t anticipate any wackiness happening in the run up to fulfillment, as all the hardware units have at least passed all the most critical tests (video passthru on all channels, system boot, etc.) We’ve even got all the product boxes sitting pretty.
We’ll keep you updated, if you have any questions, please ask.
LARS
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