Hello everyone ! First thing first we are very grateful for the love on this project by our small community as well as the vendors that responded yes for hosting us.

This project, with a new moq, requires a new prototype more expensive than the first one and as so the results of the new ic was to confirm if we commit or not on this expense.
Moq50 is also the number of sales to project several months from now so being confident was necessary for all those previous points.

As of today after spamming on websites, discord and even having a re-review yesterday here are the numbers : 56 answers with only 8 people sure to buy.
By common sense we would have need ~ 80-100 answers with a bit more "sure to buy" to be really confident. Yes we can let the ic opened a month but statistically the path is set; with the audience it's impossible to gain more "secured sales".

As you already guessed by reading the previous lines, HLB will not run this project on public GB and with all happening with the econony and the hobby we will focus and more niche private GB for now.

Thanks again for having supported this project, even if PoorKoi v2 is not public future will have another 60% full alu someday

Thanks for your feedback and photo!  Would it be ok for me to share them?

There may be an incompatibility between vial and your config changes.  I recommend trying to start from the unaltered ploxiln files, only switch those two pins, compile, and flash as you should have Vial that way; then you can work from there.

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Thank you for the quick reply! I had a different config.h built up, so I made the change that NathanA added, and then was able to flash the keyboard. The solenoid did not have an L bracket with it, so I ended up having the plunger mounted with double-sided tape so that the return stroke hits the side of the case.

When looking at the solenoid controller, there's instructions to short pads J3 and J4 for 5v. With the solenoid being a 5v one, I tested it with both. I don't think that leaving the voltage higher for the short period of time will damage the solenoid, so I'm leaving it for now.

When I reflashed the controller, I lost the capability to use Vial for customizing, but Claude suggested that I could edit keymap.c, so I had it code up a mapping sequence where I used the Pause button to toggle the solenoid, run the Fn keys on Layer 1, and map media keys to the function keys on Layer 0. I also used it to remap the orientation of the modifier keys to match up with the Mac keyboard that I'm accustomed to using.

Thanks again for doing this! It's a lot of fun having a beam spring to go with my Unicomp Model M. Good thing I have WFH capabilities, or I may get kicked out of the next Zoom meeting.