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Just wanted everyone to know progress with baby girl is looking VERY optimistic. I really do appreciate the warm wishes. We are friends here I think (even if we are virtual acquaintances).

Again, we will certainly dust this off at a later date. Promise. We have a ton of parts sitting at home (about ...

Appreciate all of the kind words everyone. Make no mistake, we will pick this back up at some point . I am sitting on thousands in parts that have no real value other than this specific application. I should be able to complete the manufacturing out of pocket in the future, and then we would start ...

Also, if you could post here to let people know you have been refunded just to make everyone more comfortable it is actually happen (avoiding opening cases), I would appreciate

I am refunding everyone today. I am not comfortable going into details, but I mentioned 2 personal matters before along with ridiculous work situation. The personal matters involved a death in my immediate family (that I could handle), and the other involves a children's hospital for my only child ...

I want to start out by apologizing for my multi-week absence. Many of you have significant money for you tied up with me and this project, and I you deserved an explanation and updates before now. I've gone through a collection of significant life events in a very short time, and I just needed to ...

Thanks for the update! I'll probably be picking up a Model F xwhatsit as part of Wodan's buy, but I believe I ordered a beam spring controller through the MF GB. Will that be an xwhatsit or CommonSense (I think I would prefer the latter)? You bring up a good point... I suspect DMA can pound these ...

haha... nostalgia really. Same reason I wanted a few of the yellow SSK badges from Wingpad's buy. Why do you have to call me out for being a keyboard hoarder?!? ;)
Not hoarder. Just.. trying to figure out where CS isn't good enough. Totally being playful... sorry if it didn't come out that way. I ...

DMA wrote:

lot_lizard wrote: Personally, I am going to use both

Join the dark side! Why both?

haha... nostalgia really. Same reason I wanted a few of the yellow SSK badges from Wingpad's buy. Why do you have to call me out for being a keyboard hoarder?!?

Thanks everyone... especially DMA. I will start the poll for the vote in the coming hours/days. Personally, I am going to use both (the mini-xWhatsit and CommonSense), but we really need to have only one solution for the delivery. Im exhausted at this point with options :lol:. If for whatever reason ...

Hey DMA... I don't have long, and will check the response tomorrow... but wanted to see if you were really ready to have a vote about this controller for the MF, and if there was anything else you needed from me to be comfortable. Looking at the posts quickly, I "think" you are. In regards to the ...

Thanks for updating Techno, and you are very correct.

I apologize everyone. I have been away from my home, overseas, for the last 2+ weeks on a short notice trip for work. I really haven't been able to check-in (including with my family much). I suspect that I have packages at my place, but would ...

You let us know when you are confident enough (one way or another) to have a vote over in "MF land". We have pushed things by a few weeks already for a variety of reasons. When you do feel comfortable about a decision, if you could let us know the bits that CommonSense would be missing initially as ...

seebart wrote:

Wingklip wrote: I could pay for shipping with my Blue alps NEC PC 8801

PM'd.

IT'S official.... Seebart just put out!!!

seebart wrote: I sure those USPS shipping routes are perfectly logical, I mean after all you need to get something for your money.

agreed... it reminds me of the old Bugs Bunny cartoons where a package finally arrives with 30 passport stamps on it after circling the globe

seebart wrote: This is my Beamspring
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Always loved the caps themselves on this one. Something sexy about that Eszett

My concerns about the material is that it be strong enough that the lip not shear off, and that it has the right flex for the arm ("tongue")to keep it pressed against the cap at the proper pressure. It might take a couple of goes at it to the get the "tongue" right in printed form. As long as we ...

@fohat... thanks again for lending me the key cap puller for 2 piece caps. It will be mailed back tomorrow. Below are the dimensions (mm) for anyone that might be interested. We will eventually slap some mesh together and print this up. The design of the handle might change a bit, but the important ...

This really all is my fault. We have negotiated something with our supplier where we produce all of these at once (legacy F, beamspring, solenoid driver, and the MF). It is one of the reasons all of this was so cheap out of the gate. I am just really geeking out about what DMA is putting together ...

Should I rename it to "capsense"? A bit too close to "capsize" though :) No way.... I typed "CommonSense" earlier, but autocorrect stepped in. CommonSense is a brilliant name HHKB beamspring. Come to the duck. :ugeek: Yummm... Speaking of HHKB, I know DMA mentioned CommonSense in regards to HHKB in ...

The claim is currently 3 weeks, but we will sort that out late tomorrow afternoon. Apologize if we are running later than anticipation. My life really got in the way with everything. I should have some concrete dates on the plates to share Tuesday. I will have everything hot dipped (Chromate) while ...

So I landed back home late last night, and will fly out again early Tuesday morning. I meet with our metal fabricator friends Monday afternoon to get in their queue. After originally thinking I had already done that via email, they want to meet in person to discuss the MINOR changes I would like to ...

I.e. hurray, unified capsense hardware is possible and lies at my table Glad it arrived safely, and glad the experiments are turning out in our favor. It looks like bluetooth in a beamspring is off the table though ;), unless we are going to stick a car battery inside (good thing there is room ...

This is all my fault with traveling so much lately. I rely on my wife quite a bit to facilitate shipments. I gave her DMA's a LONG time ago. She unfortunately got confused and thought it was a "received" parcel. When I finally pressed about it, she admitted it was a mistake. In all fairness, I ...

E TwentyNine wrote: Someone should start working on a logo for that if they haven't already.

sounds like an excellent idea... The SVG for the logo is here: https://github.com/lot-lizard/Model-MF/ ... ter/mf.svg

Anyone is welcome to run with it. Please keep as SVG if you would

The new barrels and flippers allow passthrough tension screws in all 4 corners of EVERY barrel base (eliminating flat plate tension concerns).
Careful with those. You're putting huge grounding rods around unshielded cap you want to measure. Not necessary a bad thing, just to remind that there are ...

Ratfink wrote: I understand how, but not immediately why. Why's that supposed to be better than capacitive beam spring?

UNDERWATER BEAMSPRINNNNGGG!!!! (monster truck voice)


Completely playing. I follow your point. Mostly !!science!!

EDIT: in the spirit of...

Phase 3 is a partnership with several others that is very early in the works and a different switch altogether.

:shock:

anti-beam-beam_o_749056.jpg hahaha... exactly. The *word "wannabe" should be in there someone as a footnote. Excited about that one for a variety of reasons, mainly could be ...

What is Phase plan Beta btw, I'm curious To get the alpha phase 1 in everyone's hands as quick as possible. I need my storage back...


Honestly though, it is still a flat (numerous) profile F using the MX adapters. While I have been twiddling my thumbs waiting on Phase 1 parts and testing, there ...

http://www.rccoilspring.com/rectangular-springs.html
Found this that could work for low profile bucklesprings Of all of this mechanical stuff, this is the part where I am the weakest. Springs and buckling points in regards to outside lateral forces are just hard.


I have a feeling IBM made MANY ...

Wow this is a great idea. Will you be adding rubber feet? It's funny you say that. I have always thought that Wodan's HHKB feet were a clever idea ( in this thread ). Maybe he would be interested. It should be a follow on exercise though as a independent GB at this point to MF phase 1. Our scope is ...