This was a good week for updating hardware.  Well mostly good.

Between this pandemic and the bad weather we had a few weeks ago,  it's tough to find decent used parts at a decent price.

I live here in Vancouver, BC, Canada.  A few weeks ago we have the effects of an atmospheric river, which caused major flooding and landslides.   That means the already stressed supply side of goods is making it tough to get new parts.

I was really trying to grab an nVidia RTX  3060 Ti.  The price is great at about $550 CDN.  So you have these crooks here selling used video cards like GTX 1080 for $500  -  $600.  Asking the price of a new card for a used one that is technically inferior but you cant get a new card.

So I ended of compromising on a card that is better than my old one but I can throw it away when life returns to 'normal'

But I did score on a used 750 W power supply.   Now when I upgrade motherboard/CPU/RAM I don't need to worry about power and when I finally get an RTX card I'm still covered.

I figure this will take 2 or 3 months to purchase the rest of the upgrades.  Then I will be in full production.

On my Patreon page, I posted a new render with the new card.  

In a nutshell this  is my roadmap to developing this product.

Soon I'll put up a discord channel, not like there's much to engage the public with but it will be in the near future.

If anyone is able to help out the project with $1 - $5 per month consider joining my Patreon.  Until it is time to release a public alpha or beta most updates and renders will be posted there.  Its just a warning that this page will be quiet until then.

Happy Holidays and be safe when navigating towards 2022.

Cheers..