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 keyboard switch with a custom back-lit key displaying our logo (the LED is orange, of course).  Be sure to watch the embedded factory tour video, it is much fun.

Tedium dives into the history of the Cherry switch company and how they went from microswitches to those sweet MX keyboard switches on all of our desktops. Chery received a patent for it’s fi…

Source Adafruit Blog:
The History of Cherry MX Keyboard Switches @CherryMX

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One week to go in the sprint and it will all come down to how quickly our team of volunteers, contractors, plus Bryan, and I can wrap up manufacturing of the Alpha test units.  While we would like to be further along (as shown by our burn down chart), we have a couple of weeks after the sprint ends before SyndCon and we are confident we will deliver the Alpha units at con.

Backlog – See SyndCon Task List tab for current sprint plan and Backlog tab for full backlog.

Reports

J.

Did

• Finalized the order for full run of controller housings; they have been shipped
• Finalized design and ordered test run for tone ring plastic components; it has been shipped
• Got us listed in SyndCon raffle annoucnements

Will Do

• (Hopefully) Finish controller housings
• (Hopefully) Test production tone rings and order full batch of plastic parts
• Start drafting panel presentation for SyndCon

Blocks?

• Waiting on production run parts for controller housing and tone rings

Bryan

Did

• Finalize Alpha Tester shirt logistics

Will Do

• Order Alpha Tester shirts
• Send out updated terms and info on bikes to order
• Get controllers built

Blocks?

• All controller parts and jig are with volunteer, so cannot do controller assembly work ourselves

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