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Backers who pledge $10 will be first in line to buy an OpenVizsla when we do our first production run, we'll also send you a badge to say a big 'thank you'.
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115 backers
Backers who pledge $25 will receive a bare PCB, and a download link with design documents to build their own OpenVizsla analyzer, we also have a cool OpenVizsla badge that we are designing to promote OpenVizsla, these will be limited edition and will only be available to project members and investors.
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61 backers
Backers who pledge $50 will receive a bare PCB and a printed set of design documents (schematics, PCB prints, BOM) to build their own analyzer. You will also receive a coupon for $50 off an assembled OpenVizsla and a you will be sent a whizzy limited edition OpenVizsla badge.
Pledge $100 or more
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Intrepid souls who pledge at least $100 will receive a final OpenVizsla PCB and kit of surface-mount parts to build their own analyzer; advanced SMT soldering skills will be required, you'll also receive the OpenVizsla USB badge.
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Backers who pledge >= $150 will receive plans, a badge, and a bare-bones OpenVizsla board from our initial production run -- add your own cables, power supply and software, and you'll be good to go!
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145 backers
Backers who pledge $250 or more will receive an individually numbered, finished and tested OpenVizsla board with PSU, case and cables from our initial production run.
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Backers who pledge $500 or more will receive 3 individually numbered, finished and tested OpenVizsla boards with PSU, case and cables from our initial production run.
Pledge $1,000 or more
15 backers
Backers who pledge $1000 or more will receive a PCB or development board at each design stage and they will also have the option to place a logo (or name) on an area of the OpenVizsla PCB and on the 'sponsored by' section of the OpenVizsla project website. When the project is completed the backer will also receive a finished and tested OpenVizsla board with PSU, case and cables, you'll also have access to the private core IRC channel and email list.
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Show older commentsCreator gmarsh on May 18
Come on guys... get this done.
Creator Keith Jarvis on May 9
According to the U.S. BLS my $250 in 2010 dollars is now worth $266.87. If I had invested that in Google on Dec 22, 2010 I would have $362. If I had flushed that money down the toilet I'd have the same thing I have right now.
Creator djmdjm on May 1
Could you please do another update? It's been three months since the last one.
Creator Michael Barron on March 15
Will the kit of parts be hand solderable? Can I pick-flux-paste-reflow a single board in my house oven? Or are these components just too small?
Creator Joe Ciccone on October 28, 2012
Hey guys, Any update on the status of this project?
Creator Ed Marshall on September 24, 2012
Hey guys, it's approaching the end of September, a month and a half since the last update.
The last time I commented on this topic, it was the beginning of May. The project was successfully funded almost two years ago.
I suspect my pledge has disappeared into the ether at this point.
Creator djmdjm on August 9, 2012
Come on, this is silly. We shouldn't have to beg for a status update every few months. Please commit to doing them monthly.
Creator Graeme Gill on August 7, 2012
Too bad this project seems to have gone off the rails, mainly (it appears) due to feature creep. We signed up for a USB analyser, not something that can do anything and everything. Far better to have delivered on what was promised, and then do a follow on project to cover all the other possibilities. As my first experience with Kickstarter, I think I'll stay away until some sort of accountability mechanism is introduced, otherwise it seems far too easy for someone to come up with a cool idea, gather a bunch of money, and then spend it "having fun" at the backers expense.
Doing your best and failing or falling behind is understandable. The lack of regular progress reports is simply unacceptable.
Creator Teflon on August 5, 2012
Are the plans and code for this project going to be published ?
Creator jetdillo on July 30, 2012
I'm basically giving up here. 20 months on and there's no device and we're back to quarterly(ish) updates. Maybe some day I'll get my board and parts, maybe not.
The "Day job" excuse only works so far and at some point, barring being hit-by-a-bus-level life events you need to admit you totally under-spec'ed the amount of time and effort this would take. I'm just glad I'm only in for $100 and not the $500+ level(s).
Creator Zeode on July 26, 2012
How are things coming along?
Creator Jonathan James on June 18, 2012
Do you have any projections for estimated time of completion?
Creator jeffers on June 17, 2012
you guys gonna sell like a components kit for people that bought pcb only?
Creator jetdillo on May 11, 2012
I've only been saying this WRT lack of updates for about 8-12 months now. I really hope you are taking the need for frequent feedback and updates seriously.
Creator bushing on May 10, 2012
Hi John,
Point taken, thanks again for your ongoing support. We've just posted an update and we'll post another one in a few days when we have some photos to show.
Creator John Royle on May 10, 2012
Backers are starting to talk amongst themselves about their frustration. I think that chatter will result in something more organised soon. My advice to the OpenVizsla project is this - post updates regularly, I'd say once a week. If you don't, people will assume that something fishy is going on and you may find that you have more stuff to distract you than you expected.
Creator Teflon on May 6, 2012
Please provide an update.
Creator Ed Marshall on May 5, 2012
Can't second djmdjm's comment enough: posting a regular status update isn't much of a burden on you, and it would give us some insight into the manufacturing or development challenges you've been working on.
Is it that hard to open up a browser to kickstarter.com once a week, and type up a quick status update, even if it's "sorry, no progress to report"?
Creator mrmike on May 2, 2012
I'm going on 4 development cycles on hardware that I really could have used this tool on since I pledged. I've since dropped a bunch of cash on other hardware to do the job instead. Have to say, I'm sad that my first big KickStarter pledge has turned out so poorly.
Creator djmdjm on April 25, 2012
Hi,
I appreciate that your development course has been more complicated than you initially envisaged, but the lack of updates is really frustrating. Could you please start doing them regularly?
Thanks,
Damien
Creator Patrick Kane on April 23, 2012
pytey,
If you guys provided regular updates, I suspect most of your backers would feel a lot less frustrated.
Send around an update to backers at least once a month with concrete stuff that you guys have completed and a list of what you're currently working on.
Creator bushing on April 14, 2012
Chris,
I've just checked the backer report and you should have been getting the emailed updates from Kickstarter, the email address that you are using starts with "e". I also invited you to the mailing list last year - as you can see from this image - http://openvizsla.org/image/list.png but you chose not to accept the invitation (or it has been gobbled up by your spam filters).
Yes, the project has taken longer than anticipated, but it is still all underway, we have spun hundreds of boards during the R&D process and we are almost complete with the latest board (that hopefully will be close to the board that will be shipped to backers).
Don't lose heart, we are well known and people trust us, we are working on this actively.
Thanks
-- pytey.
Creator Chris Grayson on April 14, 2012
I funded this and never received anything from anyone. Not even so much as an email communication. The OpenVizsla has nothing but a link to this KickStarter project. The Twitter account has never sent a single tweet. You guys raised over $80k, more than four times what you asked for, almost a year and a half ago, and just took the money and ran. Someone should sue you.
Creator Eric Smith on April 10, 2012
475 days and counting. This is getting absurd. "Soon" apparently has a different meaning here.
Creator Ryan Braun on March 6, 2012
Thanks bushing! The hard work is much appreciated and I can't wait to put the analyzer to use..
Creator John Royle on March 6, 2012
Appreciate the reply. Look forward to further updates.
Creator bushing on March 6, 2012
John/Charles
We'll be posting an update soon, but we have made great progress and the core team are working on the firmware while the next prototype board design are being readied for manufacturing.
The project has been far more involved and complicated than we imagined and as we have mentioned in previous updates we had some issues with hardware problems, these have been rectified now and we are moving onto the next design.
There is a reason why tools that are on the market currently cost $LOTS (because of the huge amount of R&D that has to happen) and all of those analysers don't have as many features as the OpenVizsla will, so that has to be taken into account.
We know that the device you'll eventually receive will be used not only for USB analysis but for a host of other analysis jobs, we know it will be the go to device, not only for an Open Source device, but it will be chosen again and again over commercial devices that you may have in your lab.
We can't give a concrete date on shipping as yet as we don't have the next boards back and those have not been tested and we don't want to let anyone down with false promises.
We are working on this night and day (while also fitting in time for our day jobs).
Thanks
-- pytey.
Creator John Royle on March 6, 2012
An update and come concrete dates on when you will be shipping would be good. Has anyone had anything out of this project yet?
Creator Charles Alvis on March 3, 2012
I am hungry for an update. The last update (In Jan) had some very promising news and I am just wondering how far it has progressed since then?
Creator Eric Smith on January 4, 2012
@jetdillo Well, before the end of *a* year.
Creator Teflon on December 26, 2011
"Would be great to get an update on progress though. I don't think that is unreasonable for backers to expect an update once a month!"
+1
Creator jetdillo on December 14, 2011
So, with the first anniversary of this project coming up, I was hoping we could get an update ?
Can mid-tier backers expect to see their units before the end of the year ?
Thanks!
Creator willjcroz on December 7, 2011
Hi, hope it is all going well with the project. Would be great to get an update on progress though. I don't think that is unreasonable for backers to expect an update once a month! Cheers.
Creator LEYNAERT on November 25, 2011
Hi, I did not expect that this proejct would take so long....looking forward to get one board and be able to do something. Thanks.
Creator bushing on October 24, 2011
djmdjm: We posted an update a couple of days ago, maybe you missed it? You can see it in the updates tab above.
Thanks!
Creator djmdjm on October 23, 2011
Could you please make another update? It has been a long time and we backers would love to know how things are going.
Creator Jonathan James on October 13, 2011
Would love an update as well
Creator Robert Snook on October 9, 2011
Anything going on with this project? Is there some other place updates are being released? For those of us who aren't receiving prototype boards it's a little quiet.
Creator morphy on September 22, 2011
Would like to read some news too. ;)
Creator Elio on September 19, 2011
Any news regarding the developement of OpenVizsla?
It seems to me that you should give us some more info regarding it: last update was made on July, 7!!!!
Creator George Ioakimedes on September 15, 2011
OK, so what's up with this project? Is July 10th really the last contact? Who got some of these initial boards?
Creator mpechner on September 6, 2011
time for another update I think.
Creator bushing on July 10, 2011
Eric: As stated in the update "*certain* development headers will be removed".
We really went overboard and had JTAG or Debug headers on every programmable component on the board so that we could ensure the board wasn't bricked during early development of the debug CPLD. Those parts now appear either directly in the JTAG chain or are muxed by the CPLD (which is available by the on board FTDI JTAG debugger or an external 20-pin connector).
Creator Eric Smith on July 9, 2011
My experience is that removing development headers is *always* a bad idea. Every time I've worked on a project where we thought we no longer needed them, we found that we actually did. Management often would tell us, "you can use the old boards for development/debugging", but for one reason or another that never worked out well.
I'd strongly recommend keeping any development/debug headers, and simply not stuffing them. If you must reduce the board space, you could go to fine-pitch headers.
Creator Eric Smith on May 15, 2011
Thanks for the update! Looking good!
Creator bushing on May 15, 2011
@Eric I've just written an update. Thanks for the nudge!
Creator Eric Smith on May 14, 2011
It's been over 7 weeks since the last update. Surely there has been some progress to report? I know these things take time, but even a minor update would be help keep us backers confident that things are moving toward fruition.
Creator Darryl Okahata on May 4, 2011
For those of us who missed out on backing, will there be any units for sale after completion?
Creator Gui Ambros on March 29, 2011
@bushing: just to let you know this is one of the most professional projects I've backed so far (and I've backed more than 10 on Kickstarter). Your communication flow is steady, and the balance between "user's participation" and "creator's vision" is dead-on. Just take the time you need to do it right and you'll be doing a HUGE service to the community of makers around the world. Thanks for doing this.
Creator bushing on March 23, 2011
@smokeymcpot We are managing this project in our particular way and in the way we stated when we asked for backing. There is a lot of work to do and unfortunately we can't manage huge amounts of feature requests from everyone (which usually happens when there is a large forum for a project like this). If you look through the comments we have added features based on the requests of users, but even this was feature creep that added complexity to our existing design that we had sketched out. We have to keep the board design and review process fluid and lean and we certainly have enough peer review within our team (of highly experienced embedded and EE experts).
The upper tier was priced high enough to cover 2 or 3 of the prototypes per person (they are incredibly expensive in the small numbers that we are producing and to be honest 1000 USD doesn't really cover this), the backers knew what they were getting into when they opted to back this tier and they are all happy, every single person who has backed us (from $1 to $1500) are all people who are passionate about the project and believe in us.
By the way we also put out a request for students and other people who couldn't afford to back anything, we asked them to describe what they do and why they'd like to help and we've also sponsored those spots for them. We think we are doing this in the right way and it is working for us, but of course feel free to start another USB protocol analyzer project on Kickstarter (or elsewhere) that completely fits all of your Open Source criteria.