Damn.. I was so excited to see V2 has both HHKB top and split space bar support. Perfection!
... until I saw the monstrosity which is the 'utilitarian' plate required for split support, and that the HHKB-compatible purist plate only supports a long space bar.
Also simple things like
- colors not being labeled in the images in the original post
- when you select a color in the dropdown on the store page, the picture doesn't update.
- PCB layout KLE or image is not present in the PCB github
- No option for a blank plate (though files are provided in the github to make your own blank plate, this isn't stated anywhere on the store page, and also they seem to be from R1 and I don't know whether they fit R2)
- In the badge store item, it says "Extra Data Plates are not available - only Saturn-60 badges."; I have no idea what this sentence means. What's a "data plate"?
- In the preorder page it says "Silver Badges" under "Default kit includes", but the product photo shows a brass badge, and also I think they mean _stainless steel badge_ is included? Surely it's not silver. If it is silver, I think they mean silver-colored anodized aluminium, and not actually silver. Like the handle, where it says "Silver aluminium handle".
- Is "Heatshield" stainless steel? Is it raw steel? I realise it says underneath that "Heatshield may have ..., corrosion" and that many people think that stainless steel can't corrode; they're wrong, it can. What makes stainless steel stainless isn't actually the steel, it's an oxide layer on top of it. Cutting it, scratching it, and otherwise damaging the oxide layer exposes it just like any other untreated steel. The oxide layer will self-heal most of the time though, and can be repaired/regenerated with acid solutions.
I'll stop now :-D
These small things just irk me, and really turns me off the whole project.
I really like the design though, and wish you all the best.
