the two remaining major kit parts with lead time are sorbothane gasket production and PCB production (aside from the titanium itself, which is marching along). teensies will be purchased en masse so that we can get better pricing on them, but i've primarily been working on manufacturing of our custom parts in order to best allocate resources.
once realistic pricing is determined for the teensies, i will put them up as a pre-order on the geekhackers store. however, don't expect a massive discount over PJRC's prices. i am going to assume that a number of people will not need teensies, and PJRC's volume pricing doesn't become significant until you hit thousands of units. The major benefit of us carrying teensies is that shipping can be combined, particularly for international customers.
also, thanks everyone who has entered their color preferences. we have somewhere around 80% of orders giving color choices, which are fantastic numbers.
as for lead-time from here, i was hoping to ship in two weeks, but that's definitely not going to happen. bubbles bursting, apologies, etc. just from the extra step of anodizing, we're looking at at least 2 extra weeks of lead-time from what i predicted. in addition, gasket production has not started (we just figured out how to fine-tune production to negate the stickiness issue i mentioned in the latest video). gasket production is most likely going to be the long pole due to the number of orders i had predicted when we produced the gasket tooling, and the extra coating step is going to further increase lead-time.
that said, i have parts for a full prototype on hand and i WILL have the first prototype sample at keycon. it will be raw titanium, and a bit sticky, but gosh darnit, it's going to be a smallfry
