Update #9: We've been busy…only 7 days left to the end of the project!
We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.
This is definitely the busiest holiday season for us and I'm not talking about being busy with shopping or partying.
The past month, we have been busy producing the CloudFTP units so that we can deliver in time after the end of the project.
Here are some photos from our factory, not unlike elves making toys in Santa Claus factory :)
This is the SMT (Surface-Mount Technology) line where most of the components are machine mounted in an automated process onto the PCB (printed circuit board) of CloudFTP. Here a worker is inspecting the PCB board.
Production assembly line, where the rest of the product are assembled and tested.
A worker installing the wireless antenna to CloudFTP
A worker soldering the WiFi module onto the main PCB circuit board
Products undergoing final inspection and testing before being packed.
The hardware portion of CloudFTP is already completed. We are now busy optimizing the code, GUI software, and developer tools.
Thanks to all those who have made new feature suggestions. The CloudFTP unit runs on Linux and pretty powerful hardware so if the new features are achievable via software tweaks, we will definitely do our utmost to implement it or provide the necessary development tools for others to achieve the new features.
Some of the new features that will be made possible with future software updates
- Connect a USB mobile Internet modem to CloudFTP and turn it into a MiFi hotspot device
- DSLR cameras shooting tethered to CloudFTP, sending photos as they shoot to the Cloud or other WiFi devices
- Make a USB printer wireless
- DLNA, WebDAV and other server protocols
Lastly, we are less than 7 days till to the end of the project. Please help us spread the word of this project to your friends. If you have not done so, please click the Facebook like button or Twitter tweet button.
Once this Kickstarter project is over, the CloudFTP will only be available much later at the full retail price of at least $99.95.
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Ultimate High Roller Backer. Las Vegas! 2 return air tickets (within continental USA), 2 nights 5-star hotel stay for you and your partner to visit the CloudFTP/Sanho Corporation booth at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 (Jan 10-13, 2012), located at the first row of Las Vegas Convention Center North Hall which features companies making Apple accessories where we will announce to the entire show floor that YOU ARE OUR #1 BACKER! All our staff members will want to give you high fives, have your autograph and have pictures/videos taken with you and your partner. You and your partner will each have a special CloudFTP/Sanho Corporation CES 2012 Exhibitor Pass with your names on it. In the evening, we will also buy you and your partner a fine dinner and drinks at one of the top clubs. You will also be the very first in the world to receive not one but TEN (10) CloudFTP in the color of your choice PLUS We will personally thank you by mentioning your name and featuring your photo in a full page color magazine advertisement.
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Daniel is the Founder and President of Sanho Corporation, a company that specializes in Apple accessories, portable power and storage. An electrical engineering by training, Daniel has a hand in all of Sanho's products which include:
HyperDrive – Portable digital data storage products for Apple devices, digital cameras, memory cards
HyperJuice – External batteries for Apple MacBook, iPhone, iPad, iPod, USB products
HyperShield – Cases and stylus pens for Apple devices
HyperThin – World thinnest HDMI cables
HyperShop – Official Online store
A serial entrepreneur, Daniel also founded another company EastGear.com in Singapore, where he was born, He came over to the U.S. in 2005 and currently resides in Fremont, California with his wife and 2 young kids.
@Robert Bellus Guess we will have to start another Kickstarter project for those hats :)
@Andrew Jung They are paid above average. There is a current shortage of low cost labor in China, so if we don't pay them well enough, they will just leave for another factory.
Hi Daniel, is there an ETA for the SDK release? Thx.