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What you could do, however, is take a picture of 50 different combinations and do a stop-motion-esque slideshow of them, Stones Throw style!

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I'd rather have Dirk spending time on getting TOHKBD2 to my front porch (i.e. finish it) then him wasting time taking photos of colored backs ;)

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Someone pledged 2500 !!

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Lovely!

Thank you "Hero" whoever you are, you just updated me to signature edition! :D

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Crazy! Will put it in next update :D

Will be back home tomorrow, i expect enormous pile of boxes with parts. lot of casings for solartoh, reflow oven, stencil printer, new tohkbd casings, new tohkbd pcbs, new magnets, new keypad mockups and about 70.000 smd components :D

Will be crazy week with lots of updates.

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Oh man, I don't envy you, vacation's over hard work ahead, if you need extra helping hand in your bedroom/kitchen manufacturing line shout (only menial tasks like inserting part A into part B, never been to holland and weed is great for menial tasks or so I've 'heard')

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Sativas, not indica. The latter might make you forget about what you're supposed to be doing :D

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sorry, lets not derail this any further, but offer still stands (hell, if this will result in my tohkbd getting here quicker can probably jump in for a week)

edit: assembler's too hard, assemblers' line sounds about right

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Do you think you might have the time to post new videos of the TOHKBD on your channel to showcase the latest changes?

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when i have something to show, maybe ;)

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First of many updates:

New Base casing and PCB
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/tgixhsr63ta...2012.16.30.jpg
good: PCB fits like a glove in casing and casing fits like a glove to phone
bad: i2c contact pads are completely in the wrong place. minor mistake.

New Bottom casing and new PCB
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/w6ahgbwxkdb...2012.19.45.jpg
Good: fits like a glove. the casing sort of goes around the pcb now to hold it in place (see next pic), that was a good decision cause loosing the screws on top looks good and will make construction a lot easier and faster.
Bad: no bad discovered yet.

Overhang of casing over PCB marked red, dotted green line is PCB under casing
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/l2g9ucv7whq...2012.20.43.jpg

Contact spring alignment is perfect
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/jganbc4qx7s...2012.20.54.jpg

Bottom with keypad mockup in black, no screws
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/cg10l8a7a31...2012.21.05.jpg

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Backplates with redesigned bottom casing:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/mzbi4ljmd2n...2012.22.23.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/lojpqb65r9m...2012.23.57.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/2jc4mpb7vp0...2012.24.17.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/bmudi843l56...2012.24.32.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ts7i3cgnz81...2012.24.55.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/5dbkr7vowha...2012.25.22.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/4foo6vq1k4t...2012.25.44.jpg

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Reflow oven with bottom pcb for scale (no banana's in stock atm)
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/788skgk06v1...2013.00.20.jpg

Pick&place machine filling up nicely
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/me4a91jxttc...2013.43.44.jpg

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erm,are you sure these are two different parts shown in these two pictures?? ;-)

Other than that, great update, thanks for sharing!

Edit: even nicer now, with all pictures being different :D

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Custom colours for all: Hero edition unlocked!

http://www.jollausers.com/2014/11/to...-e2500-pledge/

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Backer #1000

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Backer 1001

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+1000 backers goal reached!

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Is it conclusively decided then, we don't get a thinner bottom piece, magnets will remain covered?

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y

10chars

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Sad me is sad.

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you poor thing

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I can only echo the comments of others on how awesome this project is, and would like to thank everyone involved for making this possible (even all those who have donated/funded the TOHKBD). Count me in as a future buyer :)

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, sorry if it has. With the current design of the keyboard attaching with magnets to TOH making the KB completely removable, could your TOH accommodate a dedicated game controller attachment as well?

I know that the KB is the priority at the moment and the KB will offer more scope for mapping buttons, some folk (like me) prefer controller interfaces and I guess many more would prefer the option to hot swap between the two.


Sorry if that sounded like an unwarranted request, just I wanted to share an idea based from your awesome work Dirk :)

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yes, that should be totally possible

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Small update: coloured contact pads!

Instead of having a black casing with white contact pads, they will be in some colours. I will match them as good as possible per casing.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/rwsoci3impj...2014.29.23.jpg
yellow not shown, but will also be there

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Any change to get alumide / alumide polished as well?

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i dont understand your question, can you rephrase or start over from the beginning?

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Just wondering if it's possible to get contact pads with alumide / alumide polished color...

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no, these are all possible colours.

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OK, no worries. BTW, are you still planning to proceed with Shapeways 3D printing instead of injection molding?

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Aonsaithya has made this awesome tool for colour selection! THANKS!

http://aonsaithya.kapsi.fi/url/jolla/tohkbd/

Some colours are a bit more 'electric' than real life, check TOHOLED or SolarTOH to see how they turn out in the end.

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My favorites:
Black + Black + Brushed Steel
or
Black + Black + Carbon Fiber

Love them!

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Oh man this is cool. Hmm... TOH seems to have less colour options than the keyboard part, is this intentional?

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i think not, some is missing

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Awesome tool! Thank you Aonsaithya! But yellow missing (from base part), I'm hoping it gets added there along with the other missing colours. :)

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Well this is embarrassing; my busy mind misinterpreted this! Now that I think, TOH doesn't look like that & isn't that narrow... :D

TOH and keyboard have the same available colours now.

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Perfect! Thanks for your effort!

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Please deliver my black/white/BBS now. Or I slice a kitty.

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red red carbon fiber
or
orange orange cf
<3
Nice tool!!

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Nice tool, thanks!

Think I'll go for alumide + black + walnut.