Murphy

Murphy's law is in effect over here.  In the face of everything, we do the only reasonable thing: we persist at our best possible speed.  And, we continually thank you for your patience.

The Damage Report

Murphy has been busy.  Some of this is just comedy:

• A struggle with a website editor where the quality of your work is directly proportional to your fine motor control with a mouse.  Elements also disappear spontaneously and appear elsewhere.  Yet others that cannot be manipulated.
• Apps that go with said website that do not work or behave oddly.  Now serving #36 in the customer service queue.
• A 3D rendering software that occasionally adds visual artifacts to the middle of animations.
• A primary work laptop that has a system board failure.
• A USB-to-SATA converter, used to transfer data from said laptop, that occasionally disconnects and reconnects in the middle of file transfers.
  
• Files containing screen artwork that arbitrarily become corrupt and require rollback.

Without a doubt, much more could go wrong.  We are betting on things going right.

Here is some more of the work in progress.  I trust the future unveiling will be worth your wait.

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Jade is now introduced by audience and by topic.  This is part of the revised website (still a WIP) showing "For Parents" with four topics below.  Less words, more pictures.

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This is one frame used in a video.  What has not been explicitly disclosed about Jade, but is covered by patents, is the Carrier's [limited] ability to interact with parts without wiring an experiment.  e.g., if you want parts to do something but do not want to wire the experiment, your code can interact with parts directly.  In this frame, indicator 1 (red LED) is lit by only code, written on Jade and sent to the Carrier.

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A still shot from a step-by-step electronics building video.  The Carrier contains pre-loaded experiments and communicates the experiment wiring instructions to Jade. Jade shows these on-screen, complementing a textbook.

But...

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... the real fun happens when there is instant feedback about your work.  The instructions are interactive.

Toward the end of this video, on-screen voltages and currents are shown and updated in real-time as code manipulates the complete experiment.

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Broken wires are electronically detectable when they are freshly broken (insulation intact but copper is not).  In this still shot, Jade is screaming that the purple wire inserted between 5 and 8 is bad.

Broken wires are always human-detectable since the on-screen feedback will show no wire has been inserted.  Broken wires and broken parts are eliminated from the Jade experience. 

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There is also a section for professionals and makers at the end of the code video.  Have you ever seen a spreadsheet with cells memory-mapped to arrays?  Yeah, we're doing that.

Jade also ships with an industry-standard complement of engineering tools.  Our goal is simple but unique: Jade should teach you how to build a Jade, not including the mechanical and manufacturing pieces.