Yes, the project is still very much alive. 
I haven’t had much to say publicly, because development has been going on behind closed doors with a team of volunteer enthusiasts and I’m still seeing where this is going.
Current status is:
- the SoapBox MkII is nearly finished and most of the materials are there, it just needs a few hammer and screw touches to assemble;
- the power controllers for the motors are rapidly taking shape on NJay’s workbench, they will be smoking pretty soon; 
- the basic control software and firmware is mainly done, we just need to iron out the bugs with a bit of integration testing.
- the remote monitoring software is taking shape and getting fancy, it may need some rearranging one of these days so that people other than me can understand it…
That’s all folks! Keep tuned in.
adrian gavrila
June 28, 2011
Nice to hear good news after such a long time.
Looking fw to some pics and some results from the test runs.
Well done Vasco.
Keep us in touch with the development.
Vasco Névoa
June 28, 2011
Sure!
Thanks for caring.
As usual, you can expect the full coverage, with pictures, descriptions, published source code, and video.
It’s just taking a long time to get those darn power bridges set up, that’s all.
But in a few weeks we should have some experimental runs to publish.