Chris, DUDE, you are so full of sh!t! what a fukn!g  @ hole!!! I am one of the many trusting idiots that trusted you to fulfill an order. after the first 6 months, I was pissed; after the first year I was consigned to being ripped off. BUT seeing your BS on this forum just rips open that scar. YEA RIGHT, you are just behind, 'but clearing out the back log'  WHAT A LOAD; I ordered back in '09
how can you show your face, doesn't anyone around here care how much of a rip off your are?
ALL I can say to anyone wanting a midines:
DON'T TRUST THIS GUY, JUST A SCAM!

likewise

That's the risk, and Kickstarter has been pretty clear about it. That is why terms like "Pledge" and "Back" are used. Simply put, if you don't trust the project, you shouldn't put your money behind it. Or, if you do, be mindful of the consequences.

I choose my projects very carefully and there are tons of good projects that are coming to fruition. But when I do pledge, I expect the consequence to be that I might not get something back. For what it's worth, had I found the Kickstarter for Chip Maestro I would have definitely backed it too.

kind of reminds me of the guy who was making a MIDI interface for glitchNES, not sure he ever posted his code

honestly thats a big problem with kickstarter, thereve been other projects where the dudes bailed bigtime after they got the cash and theres no real balance for kickstarter to help them

everyone i know who has boards made pays to have them tested.  if you're professional you pay for a professional product.

then again they are making synth modules to sell as their main business so i guess they have a level of perfectionism that shouldn't be expected of someone who is taking money up front to make a product as they spend their own money to have them made to before they can sell them.

That's more the spirit!

Yea maybe! PROVE ME WRONG CHIP MAESTRO!

I've looked at getting boards fabbed directly a fab-houses (such as 4pcb) and they do charge an extra fee to test the boards. Or did the last I checked, anyway.

I think this thread as long since been a bit vicious - I'm just not sure it's fair to direct it at the Chip Maestro just yet. He at least provided an update to what's going on. Could have just taken his money and spent it on cocaine and hookers.

i dont care what the dude has or currently is doing for the 'community'. Sounds like a shady mo' fo' to me. Like yeah shoot me an email if you ordered 3 years ago, if i kind of know you, or you know people that i know, have a familiar name in the chipmusic realm then i ll send your shit.  but if you're some dude ive never heard of i ll just take your money and ignore you. I mean jesus. The guy is developing midines 2 ? Thats a fucking joke when he hasn't even sent out all the midines 1's that he already took money for. Anyone that orders one or supports this guy in any way is deluded. To me even if he fulfilled all the backorders i still would never ever order from a clown like this. Boo hoo i never went to college blah blah, everyone has problems dude, no one is too busy to send out a group email detailing there is gonna be a big delay in my opinion, he just doesn't really give a shit.  Or if he does give a shit, he has no idea what the word 'professionalism' means.

That's a tad unfair I think.

from the update

umm what?

Guyssss, forget chip maestro.  FaMI is where it's at!  Seriously, support Batsly.  Use this more.

http://code.google.com/p/nesserial/wiki/FaMI

So hes taken  year since receiving money, and found the time to travel for an event in new york without actually shipping anything? Sounds like has has indeed replaced wayfar.

least hes coming through, midines had its time but idk what happened with wayfar