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Hi Everyone,

We have parts coming in from all over the world for Chroma.

Our revised design now include several enhancements. We now have a snap-on cap for Chroma that keeps dust out and contains a white dot for calibration. The entire Chroma is now black (both plastic and aluminum) to reduce internal optical reflections. The new optical fiber based aperture is capturing more light and is no longer affected by surface gloss. Needless to say, the accuracy has improved significantly.

We will start assembling the devices this week but will need a few more weeks for calibration and testing in our temperature controlled chamber. I will post more pictures of as we assemble the devices.

Thank you for your patience and support

- George Yu

It has been a while since I have given you an update on Chroma. This is because we have been working hard tweaking the Chroma design to improve accuracy of the color sensing.  

We had to switch out some LEDs, change the optics design, and add a lens cap to prevent damages to the Chroma color sensing optics. The optical changes now allows Chroma to work on glossy surfaces. 

The revised plastic molds are close to completion. We are still on target to ship out the remaining rewards by end of April despite technical set backs. 

In addition to the physical tweaks, we have also been improving the mathematical algorithms behind the Chroma to provide even further improved accuracy. 

All the Christmas backers who received the Chroma prototypes will also receive the revised Chroma module in April as well. 

I will provide pictures as soon as we receive the plastics parts. 

 Thank you all for your patience. -George Yu

It has been a crazy dash to make and ship out all the Chroma pledge rewards before Christmas but we have done it!

If you already own a NODE, you need to upgrade the NODE firmware before using Chroma. Please go here in our forum for firmware loader for either PC or Mac.

NODE has also been in the news lately.

Business Week

Coolhunting.com

TUAW.com

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from George, Wade, Andrew, Greg, Sheila, and Kris of the Variable Technologies team.

Thank you everyone for your support. We are all very excited at Variable Technologies.

We have placed orders for all the components and will start the Chroma circuit board assembly next week. We are targeting to ship out a small batch next week followed by the remaining Christmas gift backers by the week of Dec. 17th.

We have also just submitted our Chroma app to the app store for approval.

Please follow us on Twitter @VariableTech or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/variabletech

If you have missed out on the kickstarter campaign, you can still pre-order one on our website: www.variabletech.com/products

We got all the Chroma parts we needed for the Christmas backers. We are expecting to ship those the week of Dec 11th.