Howdy wonderful Auricle backer,

May has been a productive/ positive month - here are the news.

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Production yield mods successful:\xa0As mentioned in the previous update, we had to implement a series of mods in the PCB and in the assembly line, to take a last shot at increasing our in-house production yield (how many units can be produced error-free). We’re happy to tell you that the results were very positive. We can now produce the auricles electronics completely in-house with a success rate of around 90% (9 errror-free out of every 10). That also means that 1. that will speed up the overall \xa0production process and 2. we are now safe to produce in-house instead of relying in an external EMS supplier. Plan A is back in action. Here is a picture of the 54 boards we produced perfectly suitable for final assembly.

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54 working wonderfully out of the 60 boards produced in-house this month.

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New colleagues coming on board soon:\xa0As we approach production and assembly, we are preparing our set-up to do it efficiently. We need to hire 2 new colleagues, that will be trained to help with production (and some more R&D in general). To make that work as smoothly as possible, we will also transform our new more spacious office into a “mini-factory”. We’re on the planning stages, so pictures on that will have to come next month.

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Other updates:\xa0Cable overmould and hard plastics injection molds are in progress, so not many news there. More on that in the next update.

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Shipping:\xa0We are still aiming for production + assembly of the 450 crowdfunded devices between the months August - October, but it’s hard to have an exact estimate when it will all be good to ship, as there’s always chances for new surprises… so as always, stay tuned.

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See you in the next update.

GV //Pedro & the Auricle team