Cubic, Isshin, and I wish everyone an early Happy Holidays and Happy New Year.

This year has been a crazy one. Hopefully you can still enjoy the warmth of the holidays.

Golden Master

Golden master (GM) is a stage in the software release cycle in which the software is in its full and final development stage and is ready to be delivered to the customer or to be published commercially.

We will be adopting this term at esc lab to denote the final hardware design of any product we launch prior to manufacturing.

For Series 00, we are getting very close to the GM. However, we still need just a little more time to finalize all the details. We are fairly confident however that the time estimate of January/February 2021 for IC v2.0 still stands.

Packaging

The packaging design has been finalized (after something like 10 revisions), with said design already submitted to our packaging vendor to manufacture the prototype. We anticipate this will be done in the near coming two weeks, where the team can then approve or disapprove the sample.

We will share more on what the packaging looks like very soon. We still gotta tease you folks, you know?

Founder’s Edition

In order to make it easier to own the full Series 00 collection of aluminum, brass, and stainless steel, we will be trying out best to create a Founder’s Edition where you can purchase the full set all at once with the vendors. More details on this in our IC v2.0

Social Media

Thanks to each and every one of you, we hit 350 Instagram followers this week. As we speak, we’re at 364 followers! This would not be possible to do if it weren’t for each and every one of your’s kind support of esc lab. Cubic, Isshin, and I deeply thank all of you!

Our Discord is also almost at 300 members too!

I’m wondering if we can hit 350 Discord members and 500 Instagram followers before the end of 2021?

Easter Egg Lite Prizes

Screenshot 2020-12-19 220120.png — Exclusive Series 00 stickers and keychain

The goodie “bag” of the Easter Egg Lite winners has been shipped last week, and a number of you have already received them. We hope you like ‘em! We still have quite a bit of these goodies left, so we’ll be finding reasons to give out more through giveaways, raffles, and more Easter Egg Lite hunts.

Secret Santa 2020

The inaugural esc lab Secret Santa 2020 hosted by none other than the awesome heavygrips was a huge success. We had almost 20 members participating, and all Secret Santa gifts have been shipped. Many of you have received your prizes. Thank you for not opening them before Christmas day (cough cough). We’ll be collectively opening it in the following week.

This event was super awesome for me to observe. Our community despite being only ~3 months old, is so strong and close-knit already. I can’t imagine the level of scale for Secret Santa 2021!

Got ideas of additional community events we can do? Throw those suggestions in #feedback in our Discord channel.

That’s all from me on this update.

The esc lab team wishes you all a Happy Holidays and a Happy New year!

12/19/2020 — Happy Holidays!