Too bad, we only open and close once a day but we’re certainly not in a hot spot at the 50th parallel
Good stuff. I hope this really takes off for you.
I’m curious if it would be worth partnering with someone like blinds.com or one of the other big online retailers?
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The device is always powered by battery. The USB or Solar panel are designed to keep the battery charged.
Here’s a rendering of our custom solar panel. (12" x 3" )
Getting quotes from manufactures now to help us calculate production cost of the solar panels.
Hoping we can get enough support on Kicstarter to offer these as ad-ons during the campaign, otherwise we will have to get them to our backers after Kickstarter is over.
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What is the expected life of a charged battery? xxx number of ope/closes?
We expect as single charge will last approximately 4-6 months based on normal usage. Here is a link to the datasheet of the battery we have been testing with: http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/LiIon2000mAh37V.pdf
@eric1500 backed the KS campaign… hoping it gets funded…
thanks & good luck
Apparently it is really hard for $69 to compete against $29…
iBlinds funding currently at $17,000 … whereas “MOVE” has already been backed with $116,000.
(NB: I have serious doubts about the Project below, but, full disclosure, I have serious doubts about everything on Kickstarter).
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Not going to lie, i love the look of this little bit of kit, i dont have any blinds it would really suit as i imagine it would struggle to lift up wooden Venetians . . . however it serves a purpose and is cheap, and has BLE-SMART so would be integratable into ST with hub v2
Sorry guys, no mention of ST integration and that’s worth the extra 40! 
Pay me $40/unit and I’ll arrange integration.
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- That’s external to the blinds and looks like it just pulls the strings.
- Why is there an old Intel 486 DX2 and Cyrix processor in the picture?
Given that awful video I think you’re in MUCH safer hands with the iBlinds personally…
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@eric1500 - any way to get my hands on this? Also can it be used with any standard blinds (say from blinds.com?) like a honeycomb darkening blind?
@eric1500 cant wait for the iblinds kickstarter relaunch march 1. saw after kickstarter ended and this product being zwave looks awesome for my home. hope yall get funded this time around.
hey everyone check out this product march 1.
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Looks like it’s still just the 2 inch one.
I was hoping for the 1 inch mini-blind version this go around.
Having to buy new blinds to use this significantly increases the cost.
I really wish this project would have funded the first go around or @eric1500 found another way to market (I reached out to personally try and help, never heard back).
In the time since I decided to go the DIY route, finally had some success today. Using a Servo + Particle Photon (tiny wifi chip) - Check it out here:
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It seems to be doing better this go around, I pledge for 4 blinds! I’d much rather go with something “polished” then try and make it myself!
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FlipFlic should work great for 1" mini-blinds. It’s good to see a few entrants into this market.
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Yea. I will likely back FlipFlic since I don’t think iBlinds will get their goal.
They are at 18 out of 45K right now, but half of that came in the first day. That means it has significantly dropped new interest in the last week. If it continues dropping interest and backers, it will end at 30K max.
Kickstarter funding patterns are sometimes quite unpredictable. Quite a few projects are over funded, so it’s hard to find data for a typical one. Every Creator “primes” their funding with personal funds, friends, pent-up demand… But there are also folks who reserve decision to purchase until the campaign nears the end.
I’m glad FlipFlic and iBlinds have overlapping periods so that consumers can compare the products before deciding (or get some of each).
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