Hey everyone,

We are so thrilled we are finally shipping Galileo. The feedback has been great and we can’t wait to fulfill everyone’s reward. Keep sharing the time lapse sequences you make, they are awesome!

The first batch of 50 Galileos have been delivered to Kickstarters. We have another batch of 150 set to arrive Thursday. As we mentioned before, we are scaling production with attention to detail and are committed to ensuring each Galileo meets our high quality standards. Also, production this week was cut a little short for the statutory holiday, Chinese Dragon Boat festival. Next week, we hope to have several hundred more Galileos ready to ship to you.

Remember, we will send you a mailing address confirmation email a couple days before we ship your Galileo. Please review it carefully so your Galileo goes to the right address.

Download the motrr app and see all the apps compatible with Galileo.

We will be submitting our video calling app, motrr LIVE, to the app store in about 10 days!.

Let us know what you think about iOS 7 and how it should affect our apps on our facebook page.  In case you missed it...you can watch the keynote here.

We will continue to post frequent updates in the Kickstarter comments section, on facebook, and on twitter. We will also keep up with the Kickstarter Update posts every 7-10 days or so.

Have a great rest of the week,

motrr

Hey everyone,

We are super busy with shipping, logistics, and a million other things so here are the essentials:

The first Galileos were shipped last Friday, which means they start arriving on doorsteps this week. The rest of this batch of 50 will go out on Monday. In a few days we should know how big the next batch of Galileos will be, hopefully a lot more!

Please keep in mind, this is still a soft launch for Galileo. We have a handful of great apps that are in the queue to go live in the app store and are working hard to build this platform. As we get more developers on board, you will be able to do even more with Galileo.

The shipping order is random. When you receive an email confirmation, your Galileo is ready and we will ship to you within 5 days.

If you aren't receiving a 30pin model, you will automatically receive the upcoming Bluetooth model, compatible with iPhone 5.

New website, new developer portal, new video, new apps all coming very soon. Follow us on Facebook for the latest. We appreciate your support and patience. We are really excited to hear your first impressions when you receive Galileo!

If any of this is a surprise or confusing, please refer to previous updates where we go into greater detail.

Have a great week!

-motrr

We start shipping Galileo tomorrow. 

A year ago, we launched a Kickstarter campaign so we could bring our passion project from rough prototype to finished product. You believed in us and our mission from the beginning, before we even understood how difficult this journey would be. Thank you for making our dream a reality. We hope you love using Galileo as much as we do. 

We believe in designing and building products that elevate the way we connect with each other and with the world around us. That is why we are so thrilled to finally deliver Galileo to you. But, this is only the beginning. With the SDK and future models of Galileo in the pipeline, we will continue to expand the possibilities for remote motion control. We are working hard to grow this platform and are really excited for our future together. 

Reward

Today we received a batch of 50 Galileos at our HQ in Santa Cruz. We are methodically scaling production and hope to fulfill all the 30pin model rewards by the end of June. 

The first group of reward confirmation emails was sent out this evening. As we receive batches of Galileos, we will send out the corresponding number of reward confirmations. 

When you receive an email confirmation: 

• Verify your shipping address is correct. If correct, then do nothing. We will send you a tracking number within the next 5 days. If not, please reply to the email with your current shipping address. 

Apps 

• The motrr app goes live early next week. This app is like an app store just for Galileo.
• AirBeam, TimeLapse, and RecoLive Multicam should be approved for the app store early next week as well. 
• As we mentioned before, our video calling app will be a follow up to the initial app releases. We expect it will be ready in a few weeks. 
• Other 3rd party apps will be updated for use with Galileo soon. When released, they will be listed in the motrr app. 

More 

Follow us on twitter and vine for app demos like this one.

Like us on facebook for more photo, videos, and the latest updates. 

Share your thoughts with us and our Kickstarter community once you receive your Galileo! 

Thank you so much for all your support!

-motrr 

Galileo is officially in pre-production! The new line-managers have been trained, the assembly stations are built, the final tooling is ready, almost all the components have been sourced, and we are ready to start building again. Starting today, the manufacturing facility is building fully assembled pre-production units. Gabe and Josh, who have been there every day for the past 2 months facilitating operations, will be scrupulously inspecting each and every Galileo as they come off the line. There is no room for mistakes here. It will take a week or maybe more of product inspection and testing before Gabe and Josh can determine if we are ready to increase production. We remain focused on shipping the first batch of Galileos starting June 1. 

Our Apps 

We are still waiting to hear on motrr app approval for the app store. This app will help you discover and download other apps compatible with Galileo. We mentioned in previous updates the video calling app we are building needs more time. We hope to submit to the app store in June. We are doing everything we can to prepare it for submission as soon as possible. Note, we will not let that delay Galileo from shipping. 

We have a lot more developers interested in integrating with Galileo, but we are out of developer units! So, even here at our HQ in Santa Cruz, we too are anxiously awaiting shipment of more Galileos. Still, you can find the SDK at dev.motrr.com. 

Accessories 

Backers of Galileo and our friends over at Olloclip sent us a couple olloclip lens accessories for us to try out with Galileo. They are beautifully designed, 3-in-1 lens attachments for iPhone. We tried them out in our time-lapse sequences, panoramas, and photos with much success. Keep in mind that Gabe, our master photographer who takes most of the photos we post, is still in China…so here's the best we could do :)

Joby Gorillapod, Galileo, iPhone 4S, olloclip, and a beautiful Santa Cruz sunset

Panorama with olloclip fisheye lens

Videos don’t embed in these updates, so check out our facebook page for a couple interesting time-lapse sequences we shot with Galileo. 

If you are still wondering about iPhone 5 compatibility, see Update 31. 

We try to respond to everyone's comments on Kickstarter but if you need to change your shipping address or your pledge reward, please do so by emailing us at info@motrr.com. 

We will send out reward confirmations shortly and also send instructions for those who haven’t paid for shipping yet.

That’s all for now. Thank you for your continued support and we will update you again soon!

-motrr

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Hi Kickstarters, 

The last few weeks have been really exciting and incredibly busy. We can’t wait to ship Galileo to all of you and will not rest until we do! See below for an update on the 30-pin model, a demo of one of our apps, and details on iPhone 5 compatibility. 

In the last update, we shared that we anticipate going into pre-production at the end of this week. All the new tooling, new quality control systems, and refined assembly process should be ready to go so that each Galileo we make is the best Galileo we can make. If all goes well, we enter production soon after and air freight the first batch of Galileos by the end of the month. We will know for certain once we get rolling in pre-production. It’s an aggressive timeline, but that is the plan. 

We submitted the portal app at the end of last week and are waiting on approval for the app store. Fingers crossed! Our video calling app is getting really close to ready and we hope to submit that to the app store the first week in June. Check out a quick demo we shot using Vine: https://vine.co/v/b0IAAPAuIQn

iPhone 5 Compatibility 

Our recent updates have been focused on the 30-pin model. That is the model that we launched the Kickstarter campaign with and the model most of you chose to keep as your reward. Now, it is time to address all of you who opted for a future model with iPhone 5 compatibility. We first mentioned our challenges for iPhone 5 compatibility in Update 19. Due to circumstances beyond our control, Galileo will not have a lightning connector for the foreseeable future. However, we are moving swiftly on a Bluetooth model that will work seamlessly with your iPhone 5. 

We are testing several Bluetooth solutions simultaneously, but the one we expect to launch with utilizes a Bluetooth Low Energy module, or BLE. This means Galileo will be able to communicate with other BLE iOS devices. Specifically, they are iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod Touch 5th generation, and presumably the iPhone 5S. These are the “docked devices” that will work with Galileo. However, a broader range of devices, like an iPad, can act as the “remote” device. 

The remote communicates with the docked device over the Internet using wifi or cellular data. When the docked device receives a command over the internet, it then sends that command to Galileo via Bluetooth. It is worthwhile to note that with Bluetooth, the “docked” device doesn’t need to be physically docked in Galileo to communicate since the connection is wireless. With that in mind, we hope to see some creative uses. If you already have something inventive in mind, share with us on facebook.

There is still significant development required so we have not identified a specific date yet. We know many of you would like to have an idea of how long it will take so you can make a better decision on which Galileo you want as your reward. We hesitate to offer a timeline for this, but we hope to ship the Bluetooth model 2-4 months after we release the 30-pin model. Remember, that is a rough estimate. :) 

Charging and Battery Life 

Galileo has a standard micro USB port and comes with a micro USB cable. You can use any USB charger to connect to Galileo, a 5v 2a charger is best. There is also a 1 amp-hour Lithium Polymer battery in Galileo that will last all day with average use. Bluetooth Low Energy uses very little power and will not a have significant impact on battery life. However, we have not performed endurance tests on the Bluetooth model yet. 

While the PCB layout, firmware, and several internal components are having to change, Galileo will be the same size and have the same elegant look. It will appear as though we simply swapped out the 30-pin connector for a Bluetooth radio. The less we change, the sooner we can ship. 

We hope that clarifies what’s going on with iPhone 5 compatibility. If we missed something, we will address it in future updates. 

As we mentioned before, once we can confidently identify an exact date to start shipping, we will send out reward confirmations and instructions for those who haven’t paid for shipping yet. We will continue to post updates weekly. 

Thank you for your support! 

-motrr

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