Today’s a big day for us. We just broke 1000 members in our community. With over 190 questions and more than 480 replies, our Forums are buzzing with use cases and know-how for building NFC into your applications. Android is currently the best platform for it, but we’ll get the iOS folks sorted soon enough.
This post is going to be a lengthy one, so grab your favorite beverage. iOS 7 really did a number to the FloJack. The issues we’re seeing are bigger than just a few tweaks here and there. NFC Actions is broken and, after buckling down for the last few weeks, we’ve had to come to grips with the realization that fixing it is not optimal. It’s been well documented that the iOS 7’s audio subsystem has radically changed and it’s likely it will happen again. The following video highlights some of the compatibility issues we’re seeing:
We wanted to get another update out to stem the number of emails we keep getting. At the moment we’ve shipped close to 100 FloJacks. Our fulfillment team worked hard to make sure each package was done right. Customers are starting to use them and are sending us tons of feedback. We’re working on adding more support content to our site so customers can get the answers they need fastest. As of today, however, we are out of FloJack cases. Our supplier has run into issues and we’re looking at all possible alternatives.
Sup people, last Friday while shipping a batch of FloJacks we started seeing some unusual behavior and a few dead batteries. Our quality control procedure is to test out each FloJack with a standard set of 8 tags (all different shapes, sizes, and types) before boxing them up. Some FloJacks failed with the larger tags but a couple just had dead batteries. The dead batteries were very troubling since we have been using production FloJacks ourselves for over two weeks without issues. We spent the weekend taking apart FloJacks and studying their behavior. We found that a simple compiler flag change from last week was causing the FloJack to constantly reset.
I wanted to send out a quick update to our earliest supporters. We’ve overcome the most critical roadblocks and are finally shipping FloJacks. We were hung up with a high current drain issue that was killing our battery life as well as an enclosure defect that wasn’t securing the battery door in place. Also, support for the newest iOS devices (ones with lightning connector) was giving us trouble since this hardware is substantially different than previous models. We were able to fix a lot of these issues and are happy enough with the performance of the FloJack to start shipping them to the most eager 100 customers.
Some good news – the first batch of FloJack prototypes is finished! We’ve been hard at work prepping these devices for distribution because we’re certain the feedback from early testers will make the FloJack better for all of our backers.
The FloJack is our dream of making NFC ubiquitous. Read more about our Kickstarter campaign on Mashable. Wanted to share this with our community. Thanks for the support.
– Richard and the Flomies
Last week we announced our plan to open source the FloJack SDK. Well… our team at Flomio moves lightning fast and today we’re excited to officialy announce the release the FloJack Open SDK.
Check it out:
We got funded! Read about the details on TechCrunch. Wanted to share it with our community. Thanks for the support.
– Richard and the Flomies.
First big press article from TechCocktail. We’re humbled to be surrounded by so many great companies at TechStars. Wanted to share this. Thanks for the support.
– Richard and the Flomies.
