Author Topic: [IC] New production run of Elmo AEK II USB aek2_usb PCBs boards for AEKII  (Read 11301 times)

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Offline linuxleah

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Yeah, Elmo did a fantastic job.

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Offline poisonedwater69

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Are the still any kits left/plans for a 2nd run?

Offline linuxleah

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I already have a second run of boards in-stock. :-)

In a few weeks, as soon as I'm reasonably sure that nobody's board was damaged in-transit, I will be putting up a group buy for kits based on the second run of boards. (They are green, as opposed to the first run, which are blue.)

I will also be offering up any of the blue boards I still have left.

All boards and kits will forever be sold at-cost. I believe the green boards worked out to ever so slightly cheaper than the blue boards, though I'll admit the colour is not as nifty. :)

Offline poisonedwater69

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Thats great news! I'll definitely be in for one! (maybe 2 because it'll be my first solder project) Are you going to make another thread or just continue this one?

Offline nevin

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mine arrived unscathed. well packaged. thanks for the extra effort @linuxleah

haven't built mine yet. have a bunch of mods to the case/plate floating around in my head....
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Offline linuxleah

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I'm going to make a new thread and link to it from this thread.

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Re: [IC] New production run of Elmo AEK II USB aek2_usb PCBs boards for AEKII
« Reply #57 on: Mon, 06 September 2021, 00:31:29 »
Evening!  I just got around to build the board and so far its fantastic, very refreshing to have QMK.  Where can I find the VIA hex to flash? Also, do I need to press the reset button or is there a hot key wired to reset when flashing?  cheers!

Edit: I believe I found the right file, the kb_elmo_aek2_usb_via.hex. However when I hold down boot, hit reset, then release boot; i never seem to enter flashing mode (as what Im used to doing with QMK toolbox and being able to flash that hex.  Im probably just doing something wrong though     

Edit2: So I think actually the bootloader may be corrupted; the flashed keymap works well but anytime I try to pull up the bootloader, either by esc then plugging in or pressing the boot and reset keys, it just goes blank and then back to the normal keymap. 
« Last Edit: Mon, 06 September 2021, 01:20:48 by long_qt_pie »
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Offline linuxleah

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Re: [IC] New production run of Elmo AEK II USB aek2_usb PCBs boards for AEKII
« Reply #58 on: Tue, 07 September 2021, 10:31:59 »
Hmm. I DID have a bit of a problem flashing those chips, but it's been months at this point; Elmo himself probably knows more than I do. Can you ask him? (FYI: I informed elmo via reddit private message; hopefully he'll show up here. In the past he's been very responsive!)
« Last Edit: Tue, 07 September 2021, 10:33:57 by linuxleah »

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Re: [IC] New production run of Elmo AEK II USB aek2_usb PCBs boards for AEKII
« Reply #59 on: Tue, 07 September 2021, 18:16:56 »
Sad I missed this. Any plans on doing another production run in the future?
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Offline linuxleah

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Re: [IC] New production run of Elmo AEK II USB aek2_usb PCBs boards for AEKII
« Reply #60 on: Wed, 08 September 2021, 07:13:13 »
Sad I missed this. Any plans on doing another production run in the future?

Actually, some new boards are already ready and in-hand. I'll be listing them for sale, with or without component kits, within a week or so.

Offline linuxleah

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Re: [IC] New production run of Elmo AEK II USB aek2_usb PCBs boards for AEKII
« Reply #61 on: Tue, 21 September 2021, 00:46:38 »
Second run (green!) PCBs are now available; interest check at https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=114675.0 !

Go git yew some boards!  ;D :D ;D


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Re: [IC] New production run of Elmo AEK II USB aek2_usb PCBs boards for AEKII
« Reply #62 on: Tue, 21 September 2021, 00:50:01 »
Sad I missed this. Any plans on doing another production run in the future?

New boards are ready for shipping!

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=114675.0