The big surprise hasn’t been announced yet, right? We know it’s not a new machine, or a pendant… the touch probes are in production, so that’s not it…
The suspence is killing me! 
Also: I want a touch probe! When will these be available for order?
The big surprise was announced, it was Carbide Copper:
http://carbide3d.com/blog/2017/introducing-carbide-copper/
The Probe is in production (photos posted to Instagram) and testing (at least on person on the forum, @RichCournoyer has mentioned it and answered questions).
Maybe the June blog post/announcement?
I’m testing in phases. How it works as a standard probe (or probe test, passed) How the machines works with a probe attempt to it. (Passed). And How the probe macro works (starts today or tomorrow).
We want this to be right.
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Ohh awesome, thanks Will!
I knew about Carbide Copper, but I saw it before reading this thread where the surprise was mentioned, and didn’t put two and two together.
Should Carbide Copper have a thread in the Announcements forum? I went there thinking that there would be an announcement when the “surprise” was announced but didn’t see anything. I read the “about Announcements” post and it seems like a placeholder… ohh well.
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Awesome! Sounds like fun!
Thanks @RichCournoyer for posting up the probe you have and the short video! It seems pretty far along in testing and the fact they’ve released it to a few select folks here is really encouraging on % complete.
Any guesstimate on ETA and likely cost?
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Bump - any updates for us?
I have a new video in my IG. (Using the touch probe on the watch case)
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IG? IMA (I’m Terrible at Acronyms), can you enlighten?
Instagram
You will be better off making your own, then waiting on this version being released.
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Agree w/ @fiero1 that IG would be Instagram in this case.
(don’t feel so bad — recently a photographer handed a young model a Polaroid camera as a prop for a photoshoot, he immediately felt old when she exclaimed, “Oh my God! It’s an Instagram!”)
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Soooo… When is it going to be available?
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I want to be first on the preorder list. Please send me a order link. Just take my money.
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It would be nice if they gave the current Shapeoko owners first crack at them.
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no no no, nomad first 
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Agreed! But sadly I suspect these will not work with the Nomad. Anyone know for sure?
It was mentioned that there would be an effort to work out a way to make this work on a Nomad — presumably an adapter cable and maybe some additional software.
These will BUT…your electronic enclosure is MUCH tighter than the Shapeoko and not as easy to get too, so I think you would need to drill a hole for the cables, and most Nomad users don’t own a hand drill…
I’m KIDDING on the hand drill part…
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What’s a hand drill?
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Some thing like this?
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