Project Matrix #5 - Production Update

We are continuing to work toward delivering Matrix to everyone for the past two weeks. This weill be a rather dry update as I’m currnetly off the studio and don’t have to much images on hand. Anyways here are all the latest updates and we are up to in the past weeks.

Hardware Production

We received the production version of the device last week and everything works flawlessly as expected except one thing.

We observed a weird LED glitch that originated from our LED supplier’s latest revision to their chips. We did some investigation and were able to fix this for out existing PCBs by adding a discharge resistor.

Everything hardware wise is complete at this moment and ready to ship. We are currently pending on the packaging, device label, and some paper works due to the pending regulation compliance.

Regulation Compliance

We are sending out samples for CE and FCC compliance, we should be able to get them approved in around 2 weeks and that will green light us for delivery.

Hardware Development

We have received the midi out adapter prototype too. The previous design is too challenging for production and too fragile. We are redesigning the adapter to make the USB C female port pointing sideways.

We are currently finalizing the battery module for testing and prototyping a wireless receiver for Matrix that has TRS midi in/out (and maybe audio capability) and a gyro expansion module.

(Preliminary design of the battery module will have a capacity of 6000mAh, allowing  around 5～8 hrs of usages at high brightness)

Software development

We didn’t do much on the software development for the past week because we were busy coordinating the production, testing samples, and doing all the paper works. Most software works are currently in supporting the midi out module and drivers for the new Matrix variants.