Happy 2023, everyone. It’s the year you finally get a XOOT_Pro! Oh man, looks like we missed the November and December updates. Once again, the quiet with our newsletter has meant our efforts were directed toward other backstage work. (And then there was Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year, phew 😅), More parts, and more…
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Thumbnail the latest XOOT video, inspection process for new parts from the manufacturer. Once again, sorry for being so quiet. My efforts have been almost completely focused on supporting manufacturing. For a long time this was an almost continuous flow of questions and answers back and forth. My time was spent ensuring a fast turnaround…
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Images were created with Stable Diffusion. I spent an hour rolling the word phrase dice trying to get decent image of the robot drawing on a screen. The results were interesting, but not what I was looking for… Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are now able to generate high quality images based on text prompts (https://youtu.be/L3G0dx1Q0R8).…
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The XOOT System is on the road to reality. Production has officially started.
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OK, It’s been almost three months since my last real update. I’ve been quiet and waiting for the stars to align; hoping to announce “Big News”. Bummer, we’ll have to keep waiting… Things are just taking sooo long…. Here’s the highlights of what’s happened: Still lining up a manufacturer for XOOT production. We hired a…
DetailsThere is lots going on in the background that requires me to intentionally quite right now. Just hold on a bit longer and I’ll make a full post when we are over the hump. Chris XOOT Founder.
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Manufacturing/Pricing/Release Date: No update this month. Chinese New Year has most of Asia shut down. XOOT Website: Finally, I had a chance to go through the XOOT website. Added lots more information and updated old content. Pages Added: The MT11 kit – new general purpose Kit for Vesa Mount screens. Desk Compatibility Guide –…
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Happy New Year! Sorry for the long silence. Truth be known I took a nice vacation this December and consciously avoided as much XOOT work as possible. It was a relaxing time and I hope your time went well too. Now back to XOOT’s current pickle. The manufacturing cost is high and we’re…
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Bit of an inside joke with this picture. (My finger is on the touch strip for controlling the XOOT braking system.) Earlier this year I cut the end of my finger off and otherwise uglyied it up quite a bit. In the Emergency Room the Doctor and I joked this was the end of my…
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Hey guys, just a really quick update as we work though some big issues. Finally the quote is in! The Good news: The updated manufacturing quote for the XOOT system just came in. The Bad news: Based on initial calculations and a retail price of $500 USD, we would barely break even with each…
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