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Manufacturing At Home With Evan & Katelyn | Make:

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Great video “Evan & Katelyn.” Lots of important lessons for start ups like Holoseat, some of which we have already learned and some of which are new to us. I was so impressed I just subscribed to their…

The History of Cherry MX Keyboard Switches @CherryMX

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Check out this great post from Adafruit about the history of Cherry MX keyboard switches.  For those who don’t know, we love the Cherry MX.   In fact, the enable button on the Holoseat controller is a Cherry MX…

Ten New Tone Rings for Our Alpha Testers!

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I just wrapped up assembly of the tone rings for our eight Alpha testers and two SyndCon raffle prizes.  Feels good to be wrapping up production and getting ready for the launch of our Alpha testing!

Finally Turning the Corner

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We usually save new burn down charts for stand up posts.  But, this one was too good to hold for a full week.  We have completed assembly on all of the controller housings and finished testing the 3D…

18 Pairs of Magnetic Poles

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You are looking at our first two-piece tone ring, composed of 36 neodymium magnets arranged in 18 pole pairs.  Normally you can’t see the magnets as they are protected by a cover.  I will begin testing this new tone…

PY18 Sprint 4 Stand Up 6

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TL;DR It may not look like it from the burn down chart, but we are officially in the home stretch.  The last remaining task of significant size is building the tone rings and we are on track to…

Getting Jig-gy with it…

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I know, it’s a dad joke that isn’t great with a dated reference.  As a new father, I’m choosing to make it anyway.  That said, this is my assembly jig I’ve put together for making sure the pins…