Aside from a couple dozen of you who have yet to fill out your BackerKit address survey (click here to find a link to your open surveys on BackerKit), the rest of you have either had your Breadwinner delivered or it is on its way to you via our logistics network.
Here's a fun screenshot of just a few of the places Breadwinners are headed:
Once Passport picks these up they'll get started sorting and labeling them, at that point you should receive a tracking number.
As more and more Breadwinners have been coming online, I've been diligently watching my big yeast dashboard that I've decided to call the B.U.N.D.T. (Breadwinner User Network and Device Tracker):
This a realtime view of all the data coming into Breadwinner. The vertical lines are individual feedings and each starter has its own line color. If you are looking at this graph and saying to yourself "Hey, that looks really messy, what am I supposed to take away from this crazy graph?" to be honest, I agree! I'm going to have to figure out a new way to visualize all this data.
But for now it's just nice to see all the devices checking and data flowing smoothly.
I've also been closely monitoring our backend systems to make sure all this big yeast data isn't toppling our system capacity:
Unfortunately my one server has been feeling a little stressed over the last 24 hours (see all the orange warnings? that means Breadwinner's lowly web server was running low on memory), so this morning I decided to upgrade Breadwinner to a dedicated host with 2.5GB of memory.
Exciting stuff, I know.
Over on Discord, Breadwinner backer Nicoooooo posted about a their starter's particularly vigorous introduction to Breadwinner:
This can sometimes occur! Especially if you're used to feeding your starter in a larger container than the 16oz jar that comes with Breadwinner (I aim for 30-40g of remaining starter, and 50g of water, and 50g of flour).
So if this happens to you, don't worry – Breadwinner's sensor window is easily wipe-able (though you should absolutely not submerge the battery compartment in any kind of liquid) and should hold up fine against even the most aggressive starters. Using a Q-tip to clean the little glass window is also good trick since it can be a little tricky to get inside the edges in there.
That's about it for now, but we'll have a couple more meaty posts coming up soon about our battery life estimates as well as gluten free starters!
