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If you live in North American or Northern Europe you should get your MiniDrives before the end of August, the post for those living elsewhere may mean your MiniDrive will arrive by the second week of September. We will be sending out individual emails to all those we owe MiniDrives in the next couple of weeks with instructions for how to choose your replacement model, verify you address etc.
Please note that for this first batch we are only able to offer either silver or red. We know a small number of you will really want one of the other colors, but due to volume requirements, we were unable to do any other color in the first run.
Any color other than Red and Silver cannot be manufactured until our second batch run, currently planned for October. This will be clear at the point of model selection and address verification, but just wanted to give you guys a heads up here as well. Bit of a strange one here - we have had some reported cases of empty MiniDrives causing longer than expected boot times.
If you are experiencing unusually long boot times, just try putting a microSD card into your MiniDrive and the problem should clear right up. Jul 1, Just a quick update to say that almost all the hard tooling has now been signed off and Piers is travelling out to China at the end of this week to oversee production and assembly from start to finish at Foxconn. May 31, We'd like to give a shout out to a couple of backers who have made some awesome little icon packs for you to use with your MiniDrive.
You can swap out the little SD card icon on your desktop for one of these bad boys:. David Saunders: Jesus Badia: Thank you very much guys!
If you're not sure how to swap out the old icon for a new one, here is a great little tutorial for ya: Although neither me or Steve made the video, it was made by a guy called Dan Allen who really enjoyably uses the word "boom" at 1: Choosing a distributor is a really involved process all on its own, and I will be doing a KickTips blog entry on that in a few weeks time. However, if you are a distributor, and you would be interested in distributing the MiniDrive, or know someone who might be, we would love to talk with you. Drop us an email to: So you have chosen your manufacturers and got quotes for all the bits you need.
You are now ready right? If only. Actually, there is quite a bit you still need to do before you can pull the trigger. Generally a manufacturer will only do a DFM if they are almost certain they have the order or sometimes only when they have a PO in hand.
This is because a DFM is a much more in depth process than a quoting process, and thus expensive in terms of resource allocation. However, do not underestimate how long this process will take. Here is a quick example of what I mean, illustrated with the manufacture of an injection mould plastic part:. A lot of this can seem frustrating, especially as they can be very small points, but it is SO important: This process can be helped along by getting your design verified by an manufacturing engineer, but that won't necessarily get everything.
Also, make sure you factor in plenty of time.
Getting feedback for the DFM can take forever, and your manufacturers won't necessarily feedback everything that needs changing at the same time. Never assume if you hear nothing that all is fine and the tooling is ready to start. This process alone set our project back around two months in total as feedback came in dribs and drabs and often took two or more rounds to reach something all parties were happy with. If you can, try to get all of this sorted, including DFM, for all parts, before your Kickstarter campaign starts - this means that, on successful completion of the campaign you just have to say "go" and the tooling manufacture commences.
It sounds so obvious to me now, but when we were first starting out, it just felt like once we had a price for something, all they had to do was get started once we gave the green light!
It's not. Don't let it bite you in the ass. Share this project Done. Tweet Share Email. The Nifty MiniDrive. An easy to use device that allows anyone to quickly and simply increase the available memory in their MacBook computer. Share this project.
Recent updates Lessons learnt, a big thank you and some information if you are thinking about starting out! Posted May 7, Posted Sep 28, Posted Jul 30, Posted Jul 1, Posted May 31, Posted by niftydrives Creator.
I recently did a presentation, at the Tech Chill Baltic's conference, on success and failure in crowd funding and what we learnt on our journey, which you can see here: Here is what our investigations found: Hey guys, So, for the skimmers amongst us - here is what is in the update today: Awesome icon packs - USA distributor: Say thanks! Add Comment Report Expired Reply. Created at If you purchase something through a post on our site, Slickdeals may get a small share of the sale. Deal Score 0. Nifty Model Number: Don't have Amazon Prime? If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
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