This is HypnoCube

Well, we’re finally moved over to a new host. Everything should be peachy, but if you come across any problems or weirdness please let us know.

We’ve been having significant service issues the last couple weeks, with numerous outages. We’re in the process of moving to another host, so bear with us for the moment.

In the meantime, if our site is unavailable and our email bounces, it does not mean that we took all $128 of our Hypnocube profits and absconded to Tijuana. Probably.

We got some love from Craig Crossman over at The Seattle Times (you can read it here.) Which promptly brought our little server to its knees . If you couldn’t access our site today, that’s why.

Thanks Craig, we’re glad to hear you like the cube!

After much delay, the new instructions are available in PDF format.

I quietly updated the order page last week (though some of you sneaky people seem to have noticed and sneakily ordered,) and with the instructions finally done I guess the new cube is now officially released. Whoo!

Now to get the 8Square out the door…

(Oh yeah, the Features page still needs to be updated. Though it will probably be replaced entirely by a Products page as we offer things other than the one Cube.)

We received the new 4Cube boards from the fab house today. The new version isn’t dramatically different than the old, but will feature USB connectivity to the PC to allow hackers & artists to control the cube without having to deal with low level microcontroller programming. It will also feature some basic controls on the cube itself to navigate visualizations (pause, forward, back, etc.) Should be available sometime next week.

The final 8Square boards have been sent to the fabbers recently as well, and they should be arriving in a few weeks. Expect kits to be available in about 4-5 weeks.

The 8Cube has been on the back burner a bit while we wrap up the new 4Cube and 8Square, but with the recent soldering juju (posted below) we should have a fully operational RGB battlestation 8×8x8 cube, at least insofar as the the electronics is concerned. Hopefully Chris will get it dancing soon.

Wow, it’s been months since the last post. Oops.

Things have been going somewhat slowly, but progressing nonetheless. Nothing major to announce yet, but I figured I should post something so y’all don’t think we fell off the ‘net.

I’ve got some (relatively) new pictures I’ll post here shortly.

We’ve got our first 8Square board up and going. It’s not as novel as the cube, but it should be a lot easier to build, and we’re putting in USB so it can be controlled via a PC.

The case of cases arrived, and so we’re back in stock.

Also, Chris added an Under Development page, which now features a video of our 8cube prototype.

AdSense in, some nifty plugins for contact and FAQ in, bunch of little tweaks in… I wonder if all this stuff works on bad ol’ IE6 :p

I used Google Checkout for the first time today to buy something, and it occured to me, hey, we might be able to use it too! And so now we have an alternative to Paypal. And as a bonus they have lower processing fees too.