I too have been informed about the battery issue, but in a way it has done me a favour and allowed me to change my order from tge lipo battery and charger to 2 new servos and a motor shield. This will give me greater flexibility with "traxx" and future projects. So excited and a big thumbs up on the communication, I can smell my dev kit. Yeah

Shipping companies have made shipping LiPo's suddenly difficult for us if they are not inside of a robot. You will be contacted if you have a LiPo battery accessory in your order. We are applying for a certification to allow shipping of LiPo's as an accessory outside of the robots.

Following the rules sucks sometimes

I feel for you DJ. So many others can affect your shipping. Thanks for the hard work by all of the EZ-Robot staff. Remember the shirt I talked about? "Relax and keep shipping robots"

I did wonder about the LiPo batteries and shipping, whenever I am in the post office I read the poster on the wall about goods that are not allowed to be shipped internationally, batteries are amongst those items.

Breaking the rules probably sucks more if you get caught though right? Although it is fun

I got the same email about the Lipos.... I quickly asked Aislinn and Jason to remove it from my order so it can ship now....

LOL, I just had a thought...

You better go buy the lipo's that are available in your country because as people make the same decision as Richard R, the batteries wont be available long. )

I guess I better start looking for local batteries. At leat one, and maybe two off my orders have LiPo's. Cr-pcycles.

Alan

I didn't realize ezrobot would end up in so many popular retailers. That's excellent. Looking at the packaging when it arrived I was thinking how I could picture it sitting on a shelf at a store. I remember some comments in the updates about the packaging design with the high density foam, but just before I opened the box I was concerned it wasn't going to be the developer's kit because it looked like there's no way it could have all fit in there. There's lots of little details that have been looked into on this and it's really quite impressive. Even down to the little EZ Robot smiley faces hidden in the circuit board solder mask. I took a close look at the EZB V4 board and still am baffled how they got all this functionality down to so few and such small chips. I'll also comment on how quick and intuitive the ARC software is. I'm blown away at how fast so many incredibly different devices can be configured and be up and running and still have all the flexibility you could want using the scripting tools. It really does take all the painstaking work out of it and leaves you with the fun part. This is going to be a ton of fun and well worth the wait to get one of the preorders.