Everything is in stock. The only critical component is the light engine which comes everyday to our factory: 500 today, 500 tomorrow and then 300 a day. Really tough to make this engine due to high brightness for the size. We didn’t plan to have so much issues with this supplier. We are controlling the quantities everyday with him.
In fact here are the main issues we had during this development:
- Light Engine cost: increase from TI in Sept, we lost around 30 USD per device
- Autofocus issues: we managed to find the problem but that cost some delays in January
- Software: issues with Google and Widevine: but that’s done. Our product is pretty stable now and we will release a new super update
- Light Engine production capabilities: the suppliers told us they can provide 5K a week… In October, they even refused to ship us the engine and ask us to pay more. They saw that we were tied up with this Indiegogo project
- Covid 19: that didn’t help at all!
- Customers complaining directly to the CEO of Philips: that is not helping at all, instead to focus on production we need to focus on those cases