Here's the post on UHK backlighting, just as promised. Cheers!

Hi,

Thank you for all of your replies on the blog comments over the months, it means a lot.

Good luck with the final steps.

Hi Micah,

Here are the specs:

• 4 wires
• 28 AWG conductors, but shouldn't matter very much. With backlighting (which we don't provide yet) 28 AWG or less is advised.
• 4P4C connectors, reverse-wired (one jack should be the reverse of the other)

By design, it's pretty standard stuff. Most (if not all) telephone cables should work. You're welcome to ask me if you have other questions. 🙂

Thank you for your support!

I'm going to want to source a custom bridge cable as I like to hold my arms at right angles to my body. (I.e., placing each keyboard half at about the distance of each shoulder). I'm guessing the coiled cable that comes with it isn't going to be able to stretch that far. 🙂 Thanks!

Hi Richard,

Thanks for rooting for us! Based on your description, you clearly understand the nature and perils of crowdfunding. We've followed a number of crowdfunding campaigns, and according to our understanding, the projects that do deliver on time are fairly trivial in nature, have an exceptionally experienced team behind them, or commercializing an already existing mature open source project. We've seen examples of all of these cases. Other than that, chances are good that the project will be well behind schedule. Thank you for understanding our situation!

Let me write a dedicated blog post on backlighting on the next week. So many people have asked us about it that I feel like I keep repeating myself over and over again. I'll go very deep in this post and link it there.

Thank you for your support, and have a great weekend!

I've been super interested regarding the leds, and have some questions. I know they aren't part of the shipped product, but can I just solder them in and they'll work? Did I read somewhere that they're individually addressable? Will built in software support be integrated at some point, and will there be a way to program them by the user? One more: can the brightness of all/ or individual leds be changed? Night mode would rock until I get used to the layout :). I'm also thinking of getting custom caps with translucent labels.

Thanks for the beautiful project!

Hi G.Y.,

You're right that the manufacturing news section should have been longer. Now that I think about it, I could have written more about it. It's just so that I've been overly preoccupied with EMC issues lately, and that's probably why I put too much emphasis on them. Also, unlike Andras, I'm not a mechanical engineer, so I'm less focused on those issues than he is. I'll make sure to write more about manufacturing in our next update. I think there'll be plenty of news in that department.

Hi Justin,

There's a lot of truth in what you said. If a further delay will occur, we'll consider moving the delivery date by more than a month for our schedule to be more realistic.

Also, thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for the project. We're so grateful and proud that guys like you are on board!

Let's make this happen together!

You don't have to talk about everything, it's just that the "Manufacturing news" which seems to be the most relevant thing to talk about when a product is about to ship, looks very weak in contrast to the strength and depth of the other blog posts covering the prototyping process.