Almost nine months after its massive crowdfunding success, the Lockitron is almost ready to ship. The first batch is scheduled to ship on July 15th. As I learned through a chat with Apigy’s founder, it’s been a long road to this point as the young company overcame several obstacles including building $1.5 million in pre-orders without collecting any of the cash pledged by backers.The company today announced a partnership with Schlage on a series of deadbolts specifically made for the Lockitron. Apigy’s co-founder Cameron Robertson explained to TechCrunch that this is in response to backer’s concerns that the Lockitron will not work with the lock on their door.