I think this’ll be my first high end 40% board. Renders and photos look great!
Edit: Did you offer the founders boards to the public and I just missed it? How’d that work?
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In the early stages of IC I had a form up for collecting info about what features, materials and colours people would like to be see. I also included a part for "tinkerers" that would be fine with testing this board out as in the beginning I thought this would be a more "amateur" project and will I'll have a bunch of prototypes to offer to people varying in random 3d printed cases and some ****ty pcbs.
After the IC got traction I had enough applications and I did a bit of RNG magic and people research and found a test or a founder group that were active in the community and the IC as well just had the replies in the form I found suiting for a "tinkerer". It was low key and people were notified personally. We've been working on this since about start of May I think to get all the details down, talk over design choices and refined everything. Also just the manufacturing took way longer than expected (order made in end of May with a "due date" on 20th-ish of June).
So it was public in the sense all founders are people that were selected and not just friends. Now I would like to say I see these people as close online friends and they've been very involved in this project becoming a reality thus far.