Development updates

Hey everybody !

I thought it would be nice to write from time to time about the state of development of the project. This thread will be about that.

We are still in Beta at the moment. Official launch is not far but I still have some important bugs to fix before launch.
Plus, I need to setup the company, the online store and... build a small stock of machines for the first official batch. All this takes time.
I'm working on all those aspects simultaneously, but progress has been slow lately because of unexpected additional work in my daily job.
I'm planning to release the 0.7.6 update later this month. Check the release notes if you want to see the progress on that front.

Cheers,
Franck.
 

Quick update:
I've been working on a new batch of machines for the upcoming public release.
Previously my yield for the main board was pretty low at about only 50%. (Half of the boards were not working at first try, requiring a lot of time spent for touchups and verification).
I'm glad that I have improved a lot since. My current yield stands at about 80% now, which means much less touchup work. I've improved a lot at stencil printing (solder paste), I've modified the reflow profile and I have a more rigorous verification process during assembly, before reflow.
Here's what a bunch of boards look like:
 

Cheers,
Franck.

 

...and keyboards