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Hello bot believers!

I come bearing exciting news: since the package from my Delivery Duties Paid test arrived without any fuss and there have been no surprise extra costs, today I sent out the last 9 US orders that were waiting on a Gold Ear Nibble. With that, Short Circuit 1.0 is officially 100% fulfilled and COMPLETE!! 🎉🎉🎉

This of course does not include the 6 backers that never completed their surveys, and the 4 that still have errored/declined cards. If for some reason this is you, since several deadlines have long blown past I can no longer guarantee you receive your choice of rewards BUT please always feel free to reach out if you do still want some goodies! I know life can be absolutely buck wild sometimes.

But tldr, US Folks: CONFIRMED I can get packages to you safely, earlier than expected, with no surprise charges upon receipt!! And of course if anything changes, I will work with you. You can always order my art with confidence. <3

Speaking of -- if you were considering picking up any designs from Short Circuit 1.1, Spooky Circuit, Pintober is an extremely short event so we are closing in on the last 60 hours of the project!

The entire Void Unit Line is unlocked, along with an alternate copper colorway of Remnant (hyena) and Web (spider), an Air Unit Line expansion (Decibel the bat), and embroidered patch versions of six Short Circuit favorites from both campaigns.

We're currently also extremely close to unlocking two expansions to the Earth Unit Line, Stack (raccoon) and Patch (opossum). Back it now to avoid missing out on various pledge level discounts!

If there are any pins or stickers you regret not picking up from the original Short Circuit, they are also all available as add-ons to any Spooky Circuit pledge! At the time of writing this everyone is still in stock other than standard grade Mozzy (fox), though there are many beautiful B-Grade Mozzys still awaiting adoption at a discount.

That's all the hooting and hollering from me in this space (though there will certainly be more elsewhere as we wrap up Spooky Circuit's campaign run). I hope all of you are well, and thank you again, genuinely, for backing Short Circuit in any incarnation. It's not hyperbole to say it's been a life changing shift in focus, and I'm so excited to continue exploring the concept. 💚💚💚

Hey robot crew,

Quick update to let y'all know the pin remakes came in this month as anticipated!

In addition to the Gold Ear Nibbles, I acquired remakes of six designs with the highest flaw rate. After many days of squinting at pins, I'm pleased to say they're all graded and carding is underway.

Of the 21 backers who elected to wait for gold ears, 11 of you are outside of the US - your orders will be going out this upcoming week. The remaining 10 all provided US addresses, but I have tentatively good news for you: PostNL is rolling out a DDP (Delivery Duties Paid) solution to resume shipments to the States!

I've signed up for a PostNL business account and am looking into the particulars. This will certainly be more expensive shipping than anticipated, but as it's just 10 of you I'll cover the difference on my end and we should be able to wrap up the entire project by October rather than waiting for the March 2026 deadline on the American end of the equation, which is a massive relief all around; leaving anyone lingering that long didn't sit right with me if at all avoidable.

That being said, I'm proceeding cautiously. I'm going to ship one (1) US order first to see if it gets through without issue, then if all goes well the remaining 9 of you can follow suit (I've already contacted my test subject).

So this may be the second to last update on Short Circuit 1.0: the next you'll hear from me in this space will hopefully be to confirm the last of your bot friends are in the mail, which is really exciting!! Just in time for —

Short Circuit 1.1, Spooky Circuit. More of the artwork for this expansion is ready and I paid my manufacturer for samples of Remnant (hyena) and Web (spider) a couple weeks ago.

If you follow my socials or that campaign directly, you may have already seen some of the other upcoming Units, and if not go check out the Launch Party for a round up of the new designs so far!

Folks who back Spooky Circuit in the first 48 hours will receive this black cat pin, Decomm, free with your order! Go slap that "Count Me In" button to make sure you don't miss the launch!!

Thank you as ever for everything, I'm really looking forward to exploring this series further. <3

Hey bot comrades,

If you're either terminally online or very attuned to the news, you may have heard about the sudden sped-up removal of the de minimis customs exception for the US. The timeline accelerating on this (de minimis was originally scheduled to be axed July 2027) is screwing over all kinds of folks and small businesses.

I emailed backers with US address that were awaiting gold ear Nibble remakes earlier this week and offered a choice to still squeak in under the wire rather than continuing to wait, so this first bit will be a repeat for them - but for everyone else, here's a summary of the situation from this source:

Once I finally found these details and passed them on, I dropped everything else and scrambled to get all remaining orders that I could packed and ready to go.

In the end, I got 22 more of you in the mail this week: twenty via InTime/Deutsche Post, and two that last minute fixed their cards or finished their surveys loose via PostNL. Seeing that several of you in the States who had your packages scanned by InTime on August 8th and 11th respectively have already received them is very encouraging, I am quite hopeful that this last batch of orders will clear US customs before August 29th! 🙏

Of course if anything does go wrong please let me know and I will work with you to make sure you eventually get your robot buddies. We'll get through this together. 295 orders are now marked as fulfilled and of the 22 remaining awaiting remakes, only 11 of those are US addresses. Everyone who replied to my emails accepting a green ear Nibble has already made it into the mail.

The last 11 non-US orders will be shipped as scheduled when I receive the remakes (current estimate is still October). For the last US folks, I will do my darndest to look for another solution but it is most likely that all remaining US orders will be shipped in March 2026. Even if anyone else fixes their card/completes their survey/decides on a green ear Nibble, if you happen to do so in the next ~2 hours (by 8 PM CET/2 PM EST today, Sunday) I can prepare it for Monday morning pickup, which is the ABSOLUTE LAST deadline I am willing to risk, cutting it uncomfortably close, and afterwards you will have to continue waiting.

This is so very frustrating and I am so sorry. The situations of the manufacturer swapping colors on Nibble and the buffoonery going down in the US were obviously both out of my hands, but I did my very best to do right by all of you. I didn't want anyone surprised with nasty unexpected charges upon receipt of their goods! Thank you so much for your patience and support. 💚

With all that being said, for the next installment we can bake in planning around the new US tariffs ahead of time, so I encourage folks from everywhere interested in Spooky Circuit: Short Circuit 1.1 to give its prelaunch page a follow!

I'm pleased to introduce you to the bot-boards for Web and Remnant (an undertaker robot, named for data remanence: follow the new project to learn more about them soon), two of the four designs to come for the Void Unit Line! The metal plating for Void will be copper (top), rainbow anodized (bottom left), or gold (bottom right). I'm considering sampling for two of these before making a decision, which brings me to the poll at the end of this post. Rainbow will be sampled regardless (how it could turn out is a bit more of a wild card but the temptation is too massive to resist), but peep up if you'd like to help me decide between trying out copper or gold for the alternate sample. <3

Thank y'allemaal as ever for your support and kindness, trying to build a business in the current world is a mighty tricky endeavor but your enthusiasm for these lil robots helps so much.

Hey bot believers,

As of this past Wednesday, all orders currently able to be fulfilled are officially out of my house and heading your way - or in the case of the backers who live in the Netherlands and some of those in Germany, you may even already have them in hand! (Dang that was fast!!)

For anyone curious about the final steps of the process, after I got details sorted with my courier and printed and adhered the labels, all the packages being shipped by a carrier other than PostNL (so all but five of them) had to be bundled into larger "drop off" packages, which in turn received their own shipping labels.

These boxes were then handed over to a DPD package point and shipped to the InTime sorting center, where they are currently being processed and sent along to their final destinations (you!) via Deutsche Post. From the tracking, it looks like a number of them have already been checked in and put on planes, while others are still awaiting scanning.

Speaking of track and trace, I spent the bulk of today copying over tracking numbers and links into a CSV to feed Backerkit, so 274 of you should now have your tracking! I've heard tale that integration with shipping carriers over on my side of the pond can be touch and go with the system they have in place for it, so if your link isn't playing nice then I recommend plugging your track and trace code in on the Deutsche Post website directly.

A couple folks who already received their goodies tagged me in photos of them and I was absolutely delighted, thank you! Definitely feel free to ping me on any Mastodon, Bluesky, or Pillowfort posts about opening your bot boards or putting them on fun things - I'd love to see!! (I'm a very consistent CZGoldEdition on all of the above.)

The remaining 41 of you who have your surveys complete and balances paid are pending either a decision or a gold ear nibble. I finished negotiating remakes with my manufacturer, so the new little guys are in motion and I will update you when I receive word that they are headed my way.

Finally, now that the bulk of Short Circuit is in the mail, some of the extras will start to appear at events in the meat space.

This past Saturday marked my first ever Dealer's Den appearance both outside of the US and with these robot friends in tow, at the small but wonderful Dutch Fur Con. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to chat with me there! You can also catch me at Eurofurence this upcoming September.

If anyone has any questions or needs any help regarding their shipment, feel free to reach out at any time. Thank you all as ever for being amazing and helping me make these lil buddies a reality!