News

January 2026 Opulo Update
Hey folks, happy new year! Check out what we've been working on the past month: Lead Times We're still actively looking for more assembly techs to join the team! If you're in the Pittsburgh area and interested, please don't hesitate to apply!  As always, the official lead time on each product's product page is the most accurate metric for when you'll see your hardware ship. There's a good chance we ship early, internally it's about a 2-3 week lead time, but we keep it where it is to ensure we're... Read more...
December 2025 Opulo Update
Hey folks, happy December! Check out what we've been working on the past month: Lead Times We're still actively looking for more assembly techs to join the team! If you're in the Pittsburgh area and interested, please don't hesitate to apply!  As always, the official lead time on each product's product page is the most accurate metric for when you'll see your hardware ship! There's a good chance we ship early, internally it's about a 2-3 week lead time, but we keep it where it is to ensure we're able... Read more...
November 2025 Opulo Update
Hey everyone, happy November! Here's what we've been doing at Opulo this past month: Lead Times We're still actively looking for more assembly techs to join the team! If you're in the Pittsburgh area and interested, please don't hesitate to apply!  As always, the official lead time on each product's product page is the most accurate metric for when you'll see your hardware ship! There's a good chance we ship early, internally it's about a 2-3 week lead time, but we keep it where it is to ensure we're able... Read more...
October 2025 Opulo Update
Hey everyone, happy October! Here's what we've been doing at Opulo this past month: Lead Times We're still actively looking for more assembly techs to join the team! If you're in the Pittsburgh area and interested, please don't hesitate to apply! We're also making some huge changes at Opulo to support this new tier of production that's necessary from our order volume. It's going to take a little bit, but it'll remove most or all of our production bottlenecks and we'll be able to actually make some progress on bringing... Read more...
September 2025 Opulo Update
Hey everyone, happy September! Here's what we've been doing at Opulo this month: Lead Times The Sisyphean task continues! We've just hired on some new help, and we're still actively looking for more assembly techs to join the team! If you're in the Pittsburgh area and interested, please don't hesitate to apply! Still the same lead time as last month as we ramp up our new folks on the line, but as usual, many orders ship quicker than what's listed. As always, the official lead time on each product's product... Read more...
August 2025 Opulo Update
Hey everyone, happy August! Here's what we've been doing at Opulo this month: Lead Times We're getting ready to bring our official lead times down a bit after having spun up some considerable new infrastructure and hired some folks on. Some production expansion And yet, like clockwork, we've seen a huge spike in order volume that makes it even harder to work down this backlog. Before the spike, we had approximately a week of an internal lead time, but that has gone up to about two or three at present. ... Read more...
July 2025 Opulo Update
Hey folks, happy July! Here's what's been going on at Opulo this month: Lead Times As I mentioned in last month's update, we took some action to more aggressively bring our lead times down, and now we're starting to see the results of this! Our ratio of LumenPnP/Feeder demand has shifted, so we've been spinning up new workstations and training technicians to keep up with the new balance. Also, the recent hiring we did is starting to show in our internal lead times. Our weekly production quantity is going up... Read more...
June 2025 Opulo Update
Hey everybody, happy June! Here's what's been going on at Opulo this month: Lead Times Our lead times are still unchanged from last month, but quite a bit has happened just to keep them from getting longer! We've hit quite a growth spurt this spring, and we've been reorganizing how our manufacturing line operates to be more efficient, and hiring more help over the past couple months to accommodate the increased demand. As we train our new team members and scale up production, we're hoping we'll see the lead time... Read more...
May 2025 Opulo Update
Hi everyone, and happy May! Here's your monthly Opulo update: Lead Times While we have managed to pull ahead a bit on our lead time internally, the past month's volume of orders has been overwhelming. It's been everything we can do to just keep it the same as what it was last month. Internally we're still shipping between a week to two weeks ahead of schedule, but we still keep the 4 week lead time listed as that's what we know we can guarantee. Tariffs As I'm sure many of... Read more...
April 2025 Opulo Update
Hi all, and welcome to the April 2025 Opulo Update! Let's get right into it. Lead Times Since the last update, we've made some good progress on our lead time! We're consistently shipping much quicker than our listed lead time, but we're officially keeping it where it is to help us stay ahead by a margin. 16mm and 24mm Feeders We've been working on a new prototype for wider feeders, and we're really happy with how testing has gone so far! Moving the film peeling mechanism above the tape path... Read more...
March 2025 Opulo Update
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Fewer Restrictions: Updating LumenPnP Licensing
When I started the LumenPnP project in 2020, I selected a common license that seemed right, and continued with development. I chose GNU GPL v3, and the LumenPnP (along with all associated projects) have been fully licensed with it for their entire existence. GNU GPLv3 is what’s known as a “viral” license, where (roughly speaking) anything it touches is forced into being fully open source as well. What's more, they're required to license it with the same license. That’s actually quite restrictive!  Our licensing should be based on the reasoning behind why the... Read more...