Yes everyone made it. Please give an extra thanks to all the early bird tooling supporters paying the extra costs required to set up the machines for an early production run. Their user names will be included on the QC-style label inside each keyboard.
$77,000+ in total orders (including shipping costs) so far! This is shaping up to be a sizable project.
I reviewed all the orders that came in up to now and we are just waiting on 3 early bird tooling volunteers. All the others are good to go.
I reached out to my factory contacts with pages of notes, instructions and questions in preparation for the production process and they are still looking into everything - I am waiting on their thorough reply that addresses everything.
The expected timeline from here is that I will be sending final payments for the remaining tooling and mold costs this week, then the factory will go into preparation for production shortly after they get back to me.
We have already gone through Preparations A through G, and now we have the next one up
While I can't guarantee that late orders will be included in the early bird round, I will do my best to include everyone even if you are a little late - everyone can have a week or two more if you'd like but I want to finalize things ASAP once the factory is ready. I want to keep things on time so that these early bird orders ship before the end of May.