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TL;DR: PVT is planned for early April; Somebody tried to steal our name; A preview of your unboxing experience; Expect part two of this update next week. Hello from Oakland! We’re sorry this update is late We’re really sorry for the delay in this update. Since China was closed for business for about 3 weeks after our January update, we figured we were going to devote the February update to writing about the Model 01’s software. We also thought that we were going to send that update just before Jesse went back to Shenzhen at the end of February.Time just...

We know we’re behind on a real progress update. Jesse’s in Shenzhen right now working with the factory to try to resolve a bunch of the remaining issues blocking production. He’s posting pictures of some of our progress to @keyboardio on Twitter. This Sunday, the factory is closed, so he’s going to “relax” by putting together another box of crap from the legendary Hua Qiang Bei electronics market. You can read a bit more about our last run of boxes at https://shift.newco.co/what-50-buys-you-at-huaqiangbei-the-worlds-most-fascinating-electronics-market-f0384d9fca32 A couple of important caveats: - This is a box of useless crap. It’s useless. - It might be...

TL;DR: The PVT run didn’t happen before Chinese New Year; Our factory fired an underperforming supplier; We’ve approved the final versions of some parts. Hello from Oakland, We’ve made a bunch of progress over the past month, but we’re behind where we hoped to be. The major issues right now are the keyboard baseplates, availability of the APA 102C LEDs we’re using, and Chinese New Year. Like we did last month, we’ve structured this update as a “part by part” update, roughly paralleling Jesse’s nightly calls with the factory in China. Wooden enclosures The factory sent “golden sample” wooden enclosures...

Hello from Oakland, First up, please accept our apologies for the tardiness of this month’s backer update. We welcomed our son Ira Aaron Vincent into the family on December 3 and the last few weeks have been happy, but somewhat sleep deprived. If this update is a bit shorter or less coherent than you’ve come to expect, this is the guy you can blame: Ira Aaron Vincent was born December 3, 2016 at 10:10 PM While we haven’t been getting a whole lot done in Oakland, our factory has been hard at work marshaling the resources for our PVT (production...

TL;DR: Updated stand design; making progress on firmware; resolving issues with injection molded parts; PVT looking like December, with mass production to follow. Hello from Oakland! Electrical Engineering When we last wrote, we told you about a buzzing issue we’d been tracking in our Chinese-made PCBs. We got some help from Seeed on a proposed fix that dramatically reduced, but did not eliminate the buzzing. As we tested Seeed’s fix, we discovered that it also caused a heat issue when the boards were run with the LEDs turned up to a higher brightness. After a couple weeks of the factory’s...