Updates

For anyone not already familiar with Plover and haven't only recently found this keyboard, I've been posting quicker little updates on the SOFT/HRUF post in the Plover Google Group that you can find here. Now that the first PCB-based keyboard has been dropped off at the post office and there are enough funds to purchase parts in bulk, I am going to begin the shift toward having a quantity of keyboards held in stock so that orders could be processed within a day. I'll be removing all steno writers under the preorder pages. Then, when all the existing preorders have been caught up...

PCBs have been produced and I'm waiting on shipment. I don't want to burn away my time while I'm waiting for PCBs, so I've been arranging a split bluetooth keyboard that can be clipped to your pockets or a belt so that it can be used as an input method for virtual reality (for both steno and a standard layout). Here is a rough layout I've scribbled up: You can tell how rough it is by all the "may be changed" bits and the disgusting kerning on the word "intact" that turns it into "in tact". This split version is not replacing...

The keycaps on the handwired boards have started to split between layers. If that layer happens to be at the stem, it means the entire top of the keycap comes off (leaving a stem stuck in the switch that cannot be extracted). Spending ages tweaking printer settings trying to get a stronger keycap seems futile and those of you who have been waiting so long shouldn't need to wait ages for the CNC mill to arrive, so I've had a close friend help me get some aluminium keycaps going on a borrowed mill. In the meantime, I have been testing...

I have been checking hundreds of switches individually to avoid using switches that had double tap issues occur more often. It has been taking an enormous amount of time to do this, particularly because I need to solder in each key I want to test until my oscilloscope actually arrives. However, it won't be long before I finish testing them all. On the side, I've had my friend help me with laying out a PCB with surface-mount components which can drastically decrease the time it takes to wire and I am getting ready to place orders for a run of them. The...