It's been ages since the last post on this blog. A lot has happened in recent months and, as you will see, it's a sign that everything is going well. All the Pioupious ordered have been delivered! This is the first big good news - and also a big relief for me 🙂 Reopening of orders We have a few Pioupious left on this second batch. We will put them on sale next week on pioupiou.fr, at the price…
After all these adventures, the situation has recovered well. The menu is expanding Les Pioupious, victims of early mistakes, have been corrected and are back in service. They have started to bloom again in the four corners of France. Some devices had to go through the after-sales service box a second time. Fortunately, this only concerned 1% of them, and for minor problems: human error during editing, invisible during tests... No more big worries for...
Bye bye, France. So here I am Belgian since this weekend. I left to join The Factory, where Pioupiou found a new flight. It was a big logistics. It even took a 33 ton to move both the house and the office. In any case, the "north" has not betrayed its reputation. We were greeted by rain…and even a little snow. Orders in progress and after-sales service Moving…
Before flying off to Belgium for good, there was still a small matter to settle: Weather-Paragliding... I had restarted the calculations this winter, but the servers were still in my office, in accordance with the do-it-yourself tradition of the project. "Orange didn't want to connect my premises? No problem, we pulled 80 meters of optical fiber from the paraglider neighbour's living room” Obviously, it was a temporary installation. The move comes at the right time….
Most of the Pioupious are now repaired. When we brought the boxes to the carrier, they made a funny face 🙂 A few Pioupious leaving The only Pioupious that are not yet finished are: – Either Pioupious whose repair is a little more complicated than the others. In this case, I cannot subcontract, it is I who must do the intervention. – Or Pioupious that we received during…
After a complicated 2015, Météo-Parapente is back in 2016 in excellent health. What if we had found the right fit? The big event of this beginning of the year is the transition to a “paying” operation. I grant you: after the fight I led for access to free weather, this turn may have seemed a little surprising. Unfortunately, ideology was not enough to pay the bills. To build a quality service, we do not…
Technical difficulties, moral burn-out, finances in the red… Since the end of October it was a real storm. The situation was not happy, and we very nearly lost the ship. Calm has returned. There's still a lot of catching up to do, but the hardest part is probably behind us. The real good news is that the future of the project now seems secure. Pioupiou will join The Factory, a Belgian "startup factory". So I will be the new fiscal neighbor…
The completely saturated Rondeau interchange − image borrowed from DL Previous posts on the blog have caused quite a stir. So I deleted them. I will therefore try to clarify the situation, in the most readable way possible, to avoid misunderstandings: I am not abandoning the project It was never in question. On the other hand, it is certain that I cannot continue "as is", that is to say alone and with too many means...
There was a mysterious evil that extinguished all the Pioupious, one after the other. I identified the culprit. It's a chemical reaction story! And fortunately for us, who says problem identified, says solution not far away. The stupid idea (You will excuse my language.) I had made an assembly where the pile is screwed on the electronic card. The goal was to have better electrical contact between the two elements. In theory, it should work fine. On…
Let's start with good news: that's it, the company is "great". I received the new K-Bis: So now it's “the wind company”, with €35 in capital. Finally… These stories of name and capital, it's never more than marketing talk to appear more credible to the old (bank, public aid). “I have a bigger one”. In truth, not much has changed. The only…