Shipment
Hi everyone, We have nothing but good news! The first batch of NexDocks are ready and we will ship them this week – a week earlier than anticipated. Please note that the NexDocks will be shipped in the order the contributions were received. Keep in mind that some of you contributed to our ‘2 NexDocks’ perk, so if you are among the first 700-800 backers, you should expect to receive an email with...
Cables and Adapter
Hi everyone, A quick update. Shipping quotes are finally compiled and we are waiting for approval from BrainTree (our payment processor) to be able to accept PayPal for shipment fees. Our web portal will go live as soon as we get the approval (any day this week) and each of you will receive an email explaining the required actions regarding shipping of NexDock. We are still on schedule with the...
Shenzhen & Hong Kong trip highlights
Hi everyone, We have just returned from Shenzhen & Hong Kong and here are the highlights of our trip: We’ve first met with our ODM to finalize terms of the mass production order. Our first SMT assembled PCB was ready, so we were able to start testing prototypes for mass production. We’ve also visited the production line to assess quality assurance and review the details of acceptance. Our...
Road Map
Hi everyone, These are the last 24 hours to order NexDock. So, it’s also time for a road map to explain what will happen between wrapping up this campaign and putting NexDock in your hands: April 18-30: We booked our tickets to Shenzhen to meet with our ODM one more time and finalize the terms of the mass production order. We will also review and discuss the details of quality assurance (QA),...
WE DID IT! THANK YOU!!!
We are so happy to announce that we reached our goal of $300K this morning and we’re 100% funded. NexDock is officially a sure thing! Thank you for being our first backers and early believers. We are incredibly excited to have you as part of the NexDock vision.
Kangaroo Mobile Desktop, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Asus Chromebit and Ubuntu Compute Stick
Hi Everyone, As promised, we have 4 more quick videos showing NexDock in action with with Kangaroo Mobile Desktop, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Asus Chromebit and Ubuntu Compute Stick.Currently at 90% of our goal, our journey is getting more and more exciting every day. Thanks for sharing our excitement and your continuous support.
Pi3 Periscope Session
We met with Matt from Raspberry Pi in their SF office the other day to demo NexDock with Pi 3. We had a quick periscope session @MattRichardson in which he has shown NexDock close up along with sharing some technical features and campaign details with Pi community. We had great support from Raspberry Pi and Pi community so far and would like to thank them again for backing us. For those who...
Raspberry Pi 3
Hi everyone, We have some good news about Raspberry Pi 3! We’ve been receiving questions whether NexDock will work with Raspberry Pi 3. Finally, we received ours in mail the other day and thoroughly tested yesterday. NexDock worked fine with Raspberry Pi 3, there were no problems in power compatibility since new Pi3 works on a minimum current of 1.8Amp. We ran youtube videos for several hours,...
Pine64 and Maru OS
Hi everyone, We are happy to announce that our 2nd perk has been sold out as of yesterday and the 3rd perk is going fast too. NexDock is getting closer and closer to being in backers’ hands. To add more momentum, we also introduced a new 2-pack perk, which offers more than 25% discount. We met with the founders of Pine 64 the other day at their Milpitas office. Pine 64 is another great...
NexDock Questions and Requests
Thank you to all for your kind words and support again! Regarding many questions and requests, we would like to say a few things: In the beginning, we also wanted NexDock to be lighter, have USB Type-C port, higher resolution display etc. Unfortunately building a device from ground up required a few more millions of dollars in R&D and tooling than we anticipated:) It is really hard to keep...