My Dearest Backers,
We are thrilled to announce that the very last orders from the Black Hole Sphere campaign here on Backerkit Crowdfunding have been successfully shipped! ...
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Clemens
11 months ago
The Wall Light at the End of the Tunnel
Hello my dearest backers,
after a long period of silence, we can finally inform you that the remaining 50 orders containing Wall-lights will leave our warehouse early next wee...
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Clemens
12 months ago
Surprise Surprise - Seems Like We Are Not Highest Priority
Hey everyone,
we're really sorry for the delay with some packages. We initially thought it was just a simple mistake with the tracking numbers not being updated. However, we in...
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Clemens
about 1 year ago
Shipping Update: The Light at the End of the Black Hole
We have successfully fulfilled the vast majority of orders, except for the 50 orders that include the wall lights. We encountered a delay in production due to the controllers...
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Clemens
about 1 year ago
The small BIG Bang!
Yay! A bit later than announced in the past update, but tomorrow, we will begin shipping 370 out of 390 packages, as today is a public holiday for Easter in Germany.
You ca...
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about 1 year ago
BIG News
Good News everyone!
Get yourself ready for your Black Hole products, we will start shipping a big chunk next week! We are super happy that we are able to fulfill this campa...
We are thrilled to announce that the very last orders from the Black Hole Sphere campaign here on Backerkit Crowdfunding have been successfully shipped! Thanks to your incredible support and patience, we were able to bring this exciting project to life. Over the past weeks, we have worked tirelessly to manufacture the Black Hole Spheres and ensure their safe delivery to you. It has been quite a journey, and we are proud to have achieved our goal.
Feedback and Inquiries
If, within the next two weeks, you have not received your order or have any questions about your delivery, please do not hesitate to contact us. We want to ensure that every one of you receives your Black Hole Sphere or Wall light and is completely satisfied. We already saw, that there are a handful of backers whose packages were not able to be delivered and will be sent back to us. My Colleague Karja will get in touch with you if that happened.
Please reach out to us via email at [email protected] for any concerns. We will assist you and address any uncertainties you may have.
If you already received your goods, we would be extremely happy about some feedback! We created this tiny survey, where you can upload photos, and if you are in the mood send us a small comment about how you perceive our creations.
Thank you for your support and trust in CinkS labs. We are already planning the next campaign and hope you will support us further! If you are interested in our previous work, take a look at our website. We aim to get an idea of the size and scale of our Universe with different magnitudes shown in our Spheres.
It´s fascinating, how the scale of the universe larger than us is comparable to the scale of the universe inside each spec of dust around us.
after a long period of silence, we can finally inform you that the remaining 50 orders containing Wall-lights will leave our warehouse early next week. The production took considerably longer than expected, partly because we had ordered better LED controllers for you, but their delivery was unfortunately delayed.
When we finally had them in the warehouse, there was another issue. Unfortunately, the power supplies were not packed directly into the individual packages during production; instead, they were sent as a separate package to the fulfillment. This caused confusion and, as silly as it sounds, created quite a chunk of additional work because we had to duplicate, delete and adjust each order and add the item manually. Because of this, you might have gotten an extra email with a cancellation and another with a new confirmation of your order.
But now they are ready, properly booked in, and can finally be shipped out.
We have one last drawback, though. Unfortunately, our manufacturer purchased the wrong power supplies, which means without an adapter they only work for the EU socket. So you will need an adapter or your own power supply. To give you the opportunity to possibly order this in advance and then immediately start using your wall light. You will need a dc power supply with 12V/0.5-1A and a 5,5mm plug. It´s pretty common, so you might already own one, if not we have found an example from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0875WMYCX/ref=sr_1_19?crid=XZLOGY7CFWM2&keywords=12v+dc+power+supply&qid=1687429917&sprefix=12v+dc+%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-19
Despite all the obstacles, we hope you enjoy your wall lights undiminished and we would love to see photos of how you present yours at [email protected] !
we're really sorry for the delay with some packages. We initially thought it was just a simple mistake with the tracking numbers not being updated. However, we investigated further and found out that our fulfillment partner had rescheduled some of our orders due to a big and time-sensitive project they were working on. It's frustrating for us too, especially since we had confidently said that all the parcels were already on their way (our partner even boasts about handling up to 10,000 parcels a day, so we assumed the 400 would go out at once).
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and we can now happily announce that their job finally seems to be finished, because the rest of the spheres are now on their way to their happy new owners.
Speaking of happy owners: We would be VERY happy about some positive feedback or pictures at [email protected]!!!
We have successfully fulfilled the vast majority of orders, except for the 50 orders that include the wall lights. We encountered a delay in production due to the controllers for the wall lights, but we are happy to announce that the controllers have finally arrived.
We are now actively working on production for these remaining orders and are committed to completing them as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this delay may have caused and appreciate your patience.
There seems to have been a technical issue with the transmission of the tracking, so some customers have not received one, even though their parcels are on their way or have most likely already been delivered, but you should receive your tracking soon anyways.
We also would love to receive pictures and comments from our happy customers who have already received their Black Hole in a Sphere. Our spot checks have shown that the majority of the tracked packages worldwide were already delivered a few days ago. If you have any questions or encounter any issues, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]
Thank you for your continued support and understanding.
Warm regards,
Clemens and Team CinkS labs
Ps: Due to many requests, we will relaunch the campaign on Kickstarter in a few days, so if you or your loved ones wish to have another sphere, feel free to support us again.
Since we always have to offer something new on Kickstarter, we would like to bring you a new Led base that we have come up with. This will most likely be given to the first backers as an early bird and will also be available for purchase. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cinks-labs/the-black-hole
Yay! A bit later than announced in the past update, but tomorrow, we will begin shipping 370 out of 390 packages, as today is a public holiday for Easter in Germany.
You can anticipate receiving your tracking information within the next 3 days, and delivery times will differ depending on the country of destination, ranging from a few days to two weeks. Unfortunately, the Wall-lights are still in production and we will talk about that in the next update.
Even though not all packages will have arrived by then (obviously), we will be launching our new campaign, The Space Scapes, in two days. As we understand that some backers may want to receive their Black Hole campaign products before pledging to another campaign, we have scheduled a 30-day duration for the Space Scapes campaign, ensuring that the majority of packages from the Black Hole campaign should have arrived by then.
Nevertheless, we would like to ask for your help to achieve a strong campaign start by backing us in the first 24 hours.
In short: Our campaign offers wall-hanging pictures featuring beautiful space-related scenes that can be easily flipped, rotated, swapped, stacked, and stored to fit the exact space you have available for this type of art. It´s an everlasting beauty starting at 29€!
Get yourself ready for your Black Hole products, we will start shipping a big chunk next week! We are super happy that we are able to fulfill this campaign much faster than we thought, even though, the Wall-lights will need some more production time.
A short overview of what will happen next:
1) We will charge your cards now. You will get an email if the charging failed (please contact us then). 2) When you have been charged, you will get an email with an order confirmation (no need for you to act). 3) As soon as your product is shipped, you will also get an email with shipping information and a tracking number.
Once your items arrived, feel free to leave a comment.
Important: If there are any problems with your order please email our support ([email protected])! If you only write a comment with your problem, we probably aren't able to help you, because we won't share any personal order details in the comments and emails will be answered faster as well.
You may take a look at the manufacturing process:
Laser in action!
Glass art at it's finest
Every product needs a nice packing, right?
Look how beautiful they are!
A close look at the laser's work
We also came up with another (hopefully) cool idea to add to your space collection:
The Space Scapes
This is a completely new part of our CinkS labs journey. For the first time, we want to offer beautiful space decoration not in the form of glass, but in the form of a high-quality tarp, which is printed on both sites in vibrant colors and will enrich every room.
Beware! These are not simple posters – the motives are printed on tearproof, water-repellent, and even flame-retardant tarps. To attach a Space Scape to your wall, there are practical eyelets on each corner that allows you to flip, rotate and swap these with ease.
These are my samples. This life shot shows their beautiful colors and astonishing details!
Tell us your thoughts in the comments and as always - feel free to write us an email if you have any questions or problems.
My Dearest Backers, time flies and a new update is slowly overdue. In the last two weeks we have evaluated the surveys, finalized the models so that everything can go into production, and ordered needed materials, such as the LED controllers for the wall lights. We just finished applying the 10% discount on our early birds and would like to give you a few more days to check your orders and next week we will also charge the cards for the add-ons.
Nevertheless, the production of the first items has already begun and I hope to have some nice pictures of our production for you in the next update.
THANK YOU We would like to thank you all for the lively participation, especially for your feedback on our models, because this allowed us to offer our spheres with two more motifs, which were also lively ordered. In the end, our last completed model was also the most popular and we are very excited about your feedback when the spheres have arrived with you!
SPACE SCAPE As a third and last point, we would like to introduce a little branch we want to grow on Kickstarter. We created a second account to gauge interest in minor projects that can run relatively easy on the side and that do not depend on glass completely.
Here we will start with our already presented wall canvas, but also aim to introduce other interesting novel designs and inventions. We look forward to a lively interest for our first Campaign:
The Space Scape! The Modern Wall Tapestry. Beautiful Photographs From the Depths of the Universe for Your Home, Office or Even Garden.
Now we can finally start! We will send out the surveys in a few minutes. You should receive an email from Backerkit. In it, you will be asked to click on a link that will take you to our survey.
There you will be asked a few questions to choose your desired motifs and to select upgrades. After that, you'll be taken to our add-on store, where you can see your shopping cart, add a few more products, and in the next step, enter your shipping and payment information. The whole process should not take much longer than 3 minutes and is pretty straightforward.
We will then manually deduct the 10% for all those who have purchased the corresponding Early bird. We hope we have made everything as customer-friendly as possible and are looking forward to the results.
Now...OPEN THE GATES!
See you next week, have a nice weekend, Clemens and Team CinkS labs
we are starting our survey smoke test in a couple of minutes, which means 5% of our backers will get the survey by email and fill it out, so we can see if there are any mistakes or incomprehension. After that, we roll it out to all backers. The backers from the smoke test don't have to do the survey twice, if there are no errors it counts. We will let you know when the final survey starts.
First, we want to wish you a bit late Happy New Year!
We are now so far with the survey that it is in the review at Backerkit. At the end of this week, it should be ready and if there are no bugs we can launch it. There you will be able to choose your motives, increase the size of your wall lights and choose additional add-ons. Here are some photos of the 3 final models.
Accretion Disk
Tidal Disruption Event
Distortion Sphere
Also, the shipping cost will be calculated depending on the weight of your order and the add-ons. Unfortunately, it is not possible to automatically apply the early bird discount on Backerkit, we will do it manually after we have locked your orders and before we charge them. If it happens that the discount is higher than the shipping cost, we will refund the rest.
I will send an update in which I will go further into detail when we start to roll out the survey.
The Universe Canvas In the last update, we have also shown you the Canvas I made from Truck Tarp and how amazing it worked out to be.
We then made a few renderings of these and would like to get some insight on how many of you would want to get such a thing. We tried to find out, how much we will charge for these and found, that most such images in this size (215x73cm) are sold for at least 200€ up to 4000€ which I find hilarious. We aim to sell this size for 100€, even with different motives on each side, so you can flip it from time to time.
It is only a small work for us to make these canvases way larger (400 x 300cm), so feel free to comment on which sizes you would like to see, which motives we can add, and maybe even if our price seems too low, reasonable, or too high.
Until then, best regards, Clemens and Team CinKS labs
My Dearest Backers and those who consider becoming one,
here is a video of our latest prototypes, pictures of our side products, and a small overview of the different sizes and motives of our wall lights.
You will be able to select the models and upgrade the sizes in the pledge manager a couple of days after the end of the campaign.
We hope, we can convince some more of you to support our campaign, remember it´s only about 30 hours left!!! Have fun with the update and tell us your thoughts!
Here you can see the Wall-light containing the Solar System true to scale. We made a prototype to see how it works and it came out so amazing, that we want to share it with you right away. If there is a lot of interest, we want to offer it in the pledge manager.
The same goes for this carina nebula wall canvas I made for my photo and sewing corner. It's a very sturdy tarp and the print quality is breathtaking.
Lastly, here is a small overview of all the variations of the Wall Lights in size, our 3 motifs (Disc, Distortion, and Perspectives), and their pricing for the base size and upgrades. Remember that the LED's are color-changing LED's.
We gathered enough mass to bring the Black hole in a Sphere to life. We have drawn all interested backers into our event horizon and in a few days, we will unlock the pledge manager so that you can fulfill your individual wishes. After that, we can start with the production and send out the packages to you.
Thank you so much for your support of the Black Hole in a Sphere. We are grateful for your belief in our vision and wish you some lovely holidays.
It’s unbelievable but in 1783 John Michell suggested the existence of BLACK HOLES for the first time. 200 years later, in 2019, the world was thrilled by the first photos of real Black Holes using the Event Horizon Telescope. For the nerds among us: One at the center of Galaxy M87 and the one known as Sagittarius A* at the heart of our own Galaxy - the Milky Way:
You might be thinking: “Wow! A fuzzy coffee mug stain? ”But! If you are disappointed by this image, we think this misses the gravity of the situation. From this image, we should be able to tell whether the general theory of relativity accurately predicts what happens in the strong gravity regime of a Black Hole.
What's even more exciting for us, is this picture we took of our own Black Hole Screen. Within its bouquet, in the upper left corner, you can see the blurred version of our presentation of a Black Hole.
The resemblance to the real photos from ESA is truly mind-blowing. You can see the exact orbit of photons depicted in the original shot from the Event Horizon within our glass art.
You wind up with some of the gas moving towards us and receding from us on the top. The light is being boosted in our direction. That’s why you can see brighter spots in the images. It’s like the similarity of those two pictures reinforced the credibility of each of the shots. We are so happy about this lucky snapshot and couldn’t be more proud to receive this scientific legitimization.
Take a closer look at our campaign and please don’t forget to spread the word. Give us a shoutout and tell your friends!
New Prototype is in Sight We will create another prototype for you. We try to put only two two-dimensional images in our sphere so that we have both a specific view of the distortion as well as the accretion disk. Unfortunately, we still have some issues with the software we convert these models into laser dots with, so the real prototype might not be finished before the campaign ends, but you will be able to look at it in the pledge manager and choose it if you want to.
The Solar System as a Wall Light We also worked on a wall light containing our Solar System - true to scale Model from the Solar System campaign. This will be an option as well within the pledge manager right after the campaign. Feel free to tell us your thoughts about it!
Only a couple of days are left to back our campaign, so don´t hesitate! Bests, Clemens and Team CinkS labs
Check out The Black Hole today! https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/195da61d-96c6-4828-bf88-16975179e12f/landing?ref=premail6Thanks,Clemens
Help Us Steer Even Further Into the Perfect Black Hole
We have noticed that while participation is encouragingly high, many of you pre-registrants have not baked and we would like to find out why that is.
Our guess is that you are still not convinced by our black hole representation. To be honest, at the beginning of the work on the black hole I had hoped, we could represent it in such a way, as one imagines them, but I had to realize fast that unfortunately, this seems physically impossible... Unless one creates a real black hole, but I must disappoint you, this does not work^^.
Nevertheless, as in previous campaigns, we continue to work on new prototypes and improvements, so now you are asked:
What could we do better? Give us a hint in the comments!
To give you an insight into our experiments, here are our approaches and images of our prototypes.
The first approach came out as a white ball with various layers of voids in it, but you couldn't see them.
The second approach is this one. I found it somewhat fascinating, but not even remotely convincing. Maybe we can use this approach to create a model that looks realistic and 3d only from one point of view (also the laser quality of this is very poor, there was something wrong with the machine)
Our third approach is the Sphere shown in our campaign. With this, we could represent a beautiful and impressive phenomenon, namely the consumption of a whole sun and the formation of cosmic jets. We want to improve this as well, as we noticed there could be some more details. By the way, a somewhat similar jet hit our Earth a few weeks ago. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-swift-fermi-missions-detect-exceptional-cosmic-blast
Our fourth approach is to laser the accretion disk from our wall lights as big as possible into the sphere to get some optical distortions and just hint at the jets. This seems to be the most promising approach at the moment.
Another aspect is the light distortion of the sphere as an optical element in itself. If you have a black dot on the background or look into the LED from a right angle, similar optical illusions come to light as there would be with a real black hole, but this is hard to be represented by the properties of cameras. Have you ever filmed a bathroom magnifying mirror, then you know what I'm talking about (if not, try it, you will be surprised)
This was it for this week's update. Have a wonderful time! Best regards, Clemens and Team CinkS labs
