Well, many of you have been wondering when we will be shipping EZ-Robot Revolution? It has been a very fun time designing the Revolution robots over the past year. I'm very excited to see what amazing inventions you will create with EZ-Bits and the EZ-B v4. There have been a few changes to the robots recently, and the EZ-Bits STL's will be published online in the EZ-Cloud shortly. The Store will also reflect the changes to the parts - as you know, our EZ-Robot Team has been 110% full throttle for many months.... So please be patient with us :)
Preparing parts for manufacturing has been a very interesting and educational experience. Finding manufacturing companies, logistics companies, quality control companies, etc... Negotiating pricing. Trying to find North American manufacturers - learning to negotiate with overseas manufacturing. The list goes on, and on, and on. Are we an expert yet? In my books, you're an expert when you accept that you're not an expert.
Whoa, that was deep! Enough about philosophy, onto the good news... Watch the video for the update :) Oh, and dancing robots!
Preparing parts for manufacturing has been a very interesting and educational experience. Finding manufacturing companies, logistics companies, quality control companies, etc... Negotiating pricing. Trying to find North American manufacturers - learning to negotiate with overseas manufacturing. The list goes on, and on, and on. Are we an expert yet? In my books, you're an expert when you accept that you're not an expert.
Whoa, that was deep! Enough about philosophy, onto the good news... Watch the video for the update :) Oh, and dancing robots!
It's understandable that they may remain silent on this if they themselves are waiting for information from the company manufacturing the products.
If it's unsure that they will be shipped in March then they will want to wait for absolute confirmation of this further delay before telling us about it.
Also, the 5-7 week delivery time stated in the store is right next to a link which explains the whole "pre-order" issue.
You want an affordable product, you're going to have to expect EZ-Robots to use manufacturers in China. You want the product now, you can pay over 10 times as much for the same product and they will have them made in the USA/Canada. Sales would be a fraction of what they are if the costs were 10 times higher!
ALL of this has been explained in the forums, on the shop pages and in videos.
It is still March. It's half way through March. There are still just over 2 weeks left of March. Wait until April to question if and when shipping will begin if it hasn't done so.
"It is still March. It's half way through March. There are still just over 2 weeks left of March. Wait until April to question if and when shipping will begin if it hasn't done so."
You crack me up Rich!
Wait to the end of March, if you haven't received it, then wait for the end of April, If you haven't received it, wait till the end of May! eyeroll
That's not what Rich said... Never said wait until April or May... The way I see it everyone has 2 choices... Either you wait or ask for your money back... Incessant whining isn't going to get your EZb hardware shipped any faster... Either way there will be another update before the end of March...
Well I could understand it if it was late March now and we had heard nothing but this started at the beginning of March.
I've seen nothing to make me concerned that shipping wont begin in March yet. It's like people are complaining that EZ-Robots haven't performed when the deadline isn't even close yet... Perhaps I'm just the eternal optimist, I dunno...
"Are we there yet ?" When your order shows up at your door. Prior to that actual event is nothing but wishful thinking and wasted hope.
To me its kinda like waiting for a baby too arrive( my first grandchild is due anytime now
) , Two doctors give two varying due dates (shipping!) but they really cant predict an exact day and even the mother to be (DJ)can only give vague shipping dates. It is not joyful or helpful to complain to the producer (mom) but we all know it will be shipped and the product will be amazing
All dad can do is make a crib , cleanout a spare room(build robot bodies) and WAIT All the sisters and brothers uncles and aunts, grandparents(Forum) just have to wait, but look forward to all the time they will spend with the new baby.
While this analogy is not exactly the same situation , business vrs nature etc its really about keeping our frustrations at a minimum and be positive................and for the most part it has 
I'm with Rich on this. Maybe because I've been here a bit and watched how it all happened, I'm a bit more understanding. I was never too excited about a mini V3. Sure it would be cool to have a smaller one but the 4V stats are way cooler to me. Then it seemed the marketing department started juicing and Revolution popped up all over the place. Then way more orders than they could have ever anticipated flooded in and they had to get a larger manufacturer to meet the volume requirements. ( They are not a large company that can afford to order 50,000 units and hope they sell. They've even mentioned that they are using the profits from sales to pay for production because they sold out initial units in a flash which led to needing the new manufacturer. ) Then those manufacturing guys and their gosh darn sentimental hoopla of values and tradition had the nerve to take off of work for 2 weeks to celebrate their new year. It seems a bit elitist that that just can't celebrate new years like and with the rest of us. (That last part was cynicism. I have nothing against Chinese New year or how they celebrate it. Japan has Winterfest and everything pretty much shuts down for 2 weeks for that. I respect their cultures and was just making a joke. It just doesn't change the fact that it puts EZs manufacturing plans 2 weeks back.) And now we're almost there.
Speaking of almost there, the longer they take to make it, the better it will be. They've added a few features to the board that we may not have gotten if we've had the boards already. So I just see it as added value. I guess I was never really in a hurry. Sure I'm excited but, I've just had so many pre order heartaches that I knew a product this awesome was gonna have some issues and take some time. I'd almost rather not have a date unless it comes with a tracking number. It avoids those heart aches. As long as its awesome! As long as it's EZ!
Thanks for enduring me folks.
[edit] Great analogy irobot58. [/edit]