i am hoping to have enough time tomorrow to bug the cutter to give me the nesting data. i have to do some arithmetic to calculate cost, material bulk, and correlate that with the number of orders with and without notched plate upgrades. once i have those numbers, i will be able to say something substantial to you guys. right now it is actually just "yep, i QCed the sample cut and it was awesome, so we're going to cut.. any.. day.. now.."
what i can say those is that i had an email chat with largefry wherein i gave him the magnitude of the donation that this project will be able to make to the foundation, and he was blown away (as I am every day i realize that we're doing this
). anyway, long story short, he's going through the final paperwork to get the foundation set up. once that is all submitted, there is the usual wait to incorporate and obtain 510(c)(3) status in the eyes of the IRS.
finally, JD has the ptfe coated sample of the gasket and he thinks it is a large improvement over the original samples, but he's afraid that the coating might be too thin. i've contacted the sorbo guys about this and they are mulling it over. they felt this was the best solution (they are aware both of the charity aspect AND the keyboard design aspect of the project and have been beyond awesome about it), but they do have anything coating option, and from experience i know that even ptfe coating thicknesses can be manipulated by varying parameters of the process (ptfe usually is extremely homophobic, but it's also more or less amorphous -- the big problem is that in order to get it to a nice coating consistency, you have to cause degradation by heating it up such that it releases toxic gases)
