![]() The situation is absolutely unacceptable and customers are entitled to know what happened. I have made numerous attempts to communicate/ask questions/suggest conference calls to discuss the company moving forward, and to-date I have received no response from anyone other than their lawyer saying "We will get back to you soon." Several of the remaining management personnel/share-holders are still there, and they have been running the company since my departure. ![]() To be clear, I officially resigned from MRG on May 15th, after I had laid-off all of the staff (including myself) in early-April. I understand that may many people are upset about the excessive delays in getting the HAL 9000 product delivered and the recent total lack of response from Master Replicas Group. There is a plan to get our surviving, incredibly-talented group of great people back together and resume creating new, amazing products under a new corporation. This should never have happened and am beyond-frustrated that I spent three years trying to stop something that could not be stopped. Someone also posted all of our personal info on the internet including a google earth map to my home. I am receiving phone and e-mail threats and I understand that people are ticked off, but yipes, guys. I have no words to express how I feel about this. ![]() I only know that I, my family, and my entire staff have all been unemployed since April. I have no idea what the future of my company is now. I don't intend to give up and will keep working to do whatever I can to make sure that ALL of the customers who are owed anything will get compensated. We did manage to ship many thousands of great products out to customers, so THAT is good. I spent the last three years of my life fighting/arguing/engaging with powerful, wealthy narcissists to make sure this didn't happen. They are not responding to ANY of my requests for information for the last several months, so I only know what the general public knows. They filed for Chapter 11 reorganization last week. I HAVE ALSO ATTACHED THE TEXT TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS E-MAIL> PLEASE SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM IF YOU WANT TO READ IT!ĭespite all of my efforts for three years, my partners have finally managed to bankrupt MRG. If you haven't seen it, you might want to look it up. Hello! As some of you are aware, I recently posted an update on MRG to Facebook and the Indiegogo account. "Hello and welcome to the SD Studios AUGUST Knew better not to give money to anyone remotely linked to eFx and some other clowns. HAL? HAAAAAALLLLLL!” Not sure that I want to shove an Amazon Echo or Google Home into it, but there are some Raspberry Pi based assistants that might be slick.Had the feeling when they first announced themselves. I think it’ll look a bit better, maybe like HAL is thinking up new ways to kill all humans □Įventually the plan is to work one of those smart home assistants into this – how cool would it be to have this murderbot in charge of my home automation gear? “HAL, open the garage bay doors please. For now, the LED just fades in and out in a cyclical pulse, but I think I’m going to change the fade cycle to be a little more random. Batteries seem to last about a day if I forget to turn HAL off. The LED is run by an Arduino Pro Mini and a couple button cell batteries. I’m still undecided as to whether I want to tear it apart and rebuild cleaner, or if I can just live with the imperfections. The label at the top is inkjet printed on adhesive back paper. The lens ring and speaker grill are printed and spray painted chrome silver. The outer frame is wrapped (somewhat poorly) with aluminum tape from the hardware store. Not exactly true to film, but I think it looks very cool. Then I covered the front face with Carbon Fiber patterned adhesive vinyl. I printed the front panels a few times and had nothing but trouble, so I merged the pieces together and printed as one. I also set mine up for a 10mm LED instead of the standard tiny ones for more of that murderous-computer-on-a-killer-space-rampage feel. I designed / patterned the iris to look a bit more like an eyeball than a flat camera lens. My lens sits a little more proud of the face than the original design, but looks well balanced. I had an old overhead projector lens I wanted to use, so I modeled a new Lens Ring and Iris in Solidworks. Then grabbed a thicker frame and Speaker Grill.Īll the HAL models I looked at were setup to use either the original Nikkor fisheye lense (there’s no way I’m dropping $1000 for one of those!) or a cut up plastic ornament globe (weak sauce). I started with the HAL 9000 model posted by Concentrix. Never mind the messy desk, I’m busy building random crap!
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