Atreus restocked; Preonic Kickstarter news (and a request)

The teaser site for the Preonic is live. You can see some short videos of the prototype in action, sign up for our Preonic-specific mailing list and, if you're pretty sure you want to back the campaign, you can make a $5 reservation. That reservation gets you a Preonic travel case at no additional charge when you back the Kickstarter this summer. 

 

We're planning to launch the Kickstarter campaign for the Keyboardio Preonic in mid-July. The industrial and mechanical designs are done. We're hard at work on the firmware and on finalizing the electronic design. We have the first sample of the new Preonic travel case in hand and are expecting the first sample of the Preonic desk tray in the next couple of weeks.

 

 

You need to be available for the day on June 19 or June 20 and, most importantly, you must know how to touch-type on an ortholinear keyboard. When we did the Kickstarter video for the Atreus, we used actors.They showed up on time. They looked great. They knew their lines. They knew how to act for the camera. But they didn't know how to type on an Atreus. And we could tell. And you could tell. And we'd rather feature you all, anyway.

 

If you're interested in typing in our next Kickstarter video, drop a note to kaia@keyboard.io  with the subject line: "Preonic video." 

 

If you’ve typed on a Preonic and liked it, we want to hear from you!

 

Take two minutes to tell us about your experience and we may feature your quote in the Kickstarter campaign. 

 

A couple weeks ago, community member kamui wrote up a detailed tutorial showing a bunch of interesting mods they made to their Model 100 to customize the feel and sound of the keyboard. It's well worth a read. 

 

In our last update, we told you a bit about the Cherry edition of the Model 100, which will ship with both Cherry's latest MX switches and a Cherry hardwood enclosure. We'd expected these new keyboards to be ready in April, but they're still not here. The electronics and plastics are good to go. We're just waiting on the wood.

 

This has been one of the wettest springs in southern China in over 50 years and our wood vendor is basically at a stand-still. In order to make sure that your enclosures don't warp and crack in cold, dry climates, it's vitally important that the manufacturer control just how much moisture is in the wood while it's being milled and sealed. All of our wood is wrapped up tight so that it won't absorb humidity from the air. In theory, the long stretch of wet weather is expected to break within the next couple weeks, but that was also what we thought in early April.

 

We'll have 'em up for sale as soon as we can.

 

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