There are a few hours of work left to polish the design, send it in for a review and then order the production quantity PCBs. After that it's probably ~4 weeks until the products ship to customers. Now I play the waiting game while I wait for the pre-orders to justify the monetary risk of buying such quantities. And so we wait!

The risk I carry here is something alot of the buyers don't see. At the end of this project I will have several thousand leftover raw parts (and hence over a thousand dollars) that I can't use and must carry over to the next production run (I hope there is such demand!). The other big problem is the parts come on reels of varying quantities, 5000 resistors, 2500 diodes, 600 inductors, 500 capacitors each with varying number of placements per board from 1 to 6 items per board. I could never buy the "perfect" number for a build and will always have wasted inventory at the end of every build. This is a hobby project and I don't have tons of capital to put on the line. At the same time, I can understand that people don't pre-order until it's ready. Chicken and Egg problem, and I'm in the middle. The comments and encouragement are what help with this frustration. :)

I'm very appreciative of the people that have backed me already via MassiveRC's pre-order! The more orders, the sooner it happens!