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By: Updated delivery schedule and a bonus – Ultimate Hacking Keyboard

Updated delivery schedule and a bonus – Ultimate Hacking Keyboard — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:57:20 +0000

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By: László Monda

László Monda — Thu, 12 May 2016 11:00:03 +0000

In reply to Mike. Hi Mike, Fist up, thank you very much for your support, and encouraging words! We're already using the KiCad library of kiibohd because we share a couple PCB footprints with them. We can't make USB type C happen because of the lack of space. Other firmwares don't work for us for a couple of reasons. The modular architecture of the UHK is one of a kind, and it calls for a considerably more sophisticated firmware than the existing offerings. Also, the UHK stores its configuration in the EEPROM instead of compiling it into the firmware like other Open Source firmwares. This is yet another big difference that has a number of advantages. So to sum it up, we're aware of the related projects and use them as much as possible, but given our design constraints our options are rather limited, and we inevitably need to build a lot of stuff from the ground up. Great points, by the way! :)

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 May 2016 02:40:03 +0000

Laszlo & team, fantastic prototyping and cheering on your to-production efforts (as i have one on order!). So I dread to suggest, as i dont really think other fundamental design choices should be made anymore (mcu & firmware)... but have you considered basing your mcu & firmware off existing open source work: eg GH60, TMK, kiibohd. The latter in particular, on which the 'symmetrical' usbc-connected inifinity ergodox is based on; quite akin to split design of uhk. Undoubtadly, your HW design ROCKS!

By: László Monda

László Monda — Fri, 06 May 2016 22:55:10 +0000

In reply to Liam. Thank you for your understanding and support, Liam!

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 06 May 2016 21:22:23 +0000

Looking really forward to the UHK. If it's as awesome as I think it will be, it's totally worth the two months.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:21:35 +0000

In reply to László Monda. Haha nice response, restecp!

By: László Monda

László Monda — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:57:19 +0000

In reply to WeZzy. Hi Wezzy, I feel obliged to give you some proof: Thanks for the encouraging words, we're working on it!

By: WeZzy

WeZzy — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:10:15 +0000

Hi László, could you please update your profile picture so that we can see those gray hairs? 🙂 Unfortunate as I was really really stoked that July was coming closer and closer but things happen. Stay strong and build the best keyboard out there. Looking forward to September! Go go go!

By: László Monda

László Monda — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:39:46 +0000

In reply to edbo. Our (old) bank is not hiding from anybody. They are simply hopeless beyond words. :) You're right that in some ways this delay is a good thing. We'll definitely make a good use of the extra time. Handlebars was only used by Arpi to prototype the UI, and it will be removed. We could use any JavaScript MVC framework, like Ember, React, or pretty much anything to make Agent work, but I have great confidence in Angular. The Angular 2 port is already in progress.

By: edbo

edbo — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:32:24 +0000

Thanks for the update! Hopefully this has nothing to do with the bank trying to hide from the Panama-papers and just totally forgot to transfer the money 😉 Luckily I still have another keyboard 🙂 and I hope that the two months delay also give you a little more time to stabilize the hardware and software. As a mechanical engineer myself I know that creating molds is hard and it never goes like intended.

Looking at the agent source-code on github I see you are using Handlebars for templating. Ever thought of using EmberJS (www.emberjs.com) created by the authors of Handlebars?