Shipping delays haven't been an issue for some time now. I'm not mad - trolls don't always get news as quickly as the rest of us. They also don't know how to stay on topic.
Speaking of on topic, I strongly suggest renaming this project, no matter how attached the 'team' might be to the name. Not only was the initial use of the name rude, the current defense of "different product" is insulting. Sure, the ORIGINAL Pancake doesn't have an encoder. Yours is only an encoder. The issue is that you are marketing to the same audience in and on the same platforms that the original was and currently is marketed on.
If you do insist on sticking to the Pancake name, perhaps an alternate spelling? Maybe something like Pankek?
Might want to rethink the name so as to not have this confused with a keyboard that already exists.
https://mkultra.click/collections/pcbs/products/group-buy-pancake-keyboard-kit
I don't understand why you can't just rename it, if it's "early in the process."
Agreed. Short Stack is such a great name too!
Since posting this we have had a meeting about the name of the product, and have agreed to change the name.
Firstly, I (not the team, me, Ryan, one designer of the peripheral formerly known as the Pancake) want to apologize to MKUltra. I hope you can forgive me for not doing the due diligence, and for sticking with the name for this long. My gut reaction, and indeed first reply to you in our discord channel was to change the name. I should have put my foot down with the other members of the team and moved toward changing the name. This project has been in development now since December of 2019, and we have very many documents and organizational files with this name, and had been running with it excitedly for a long while. I hope you understand it is not a keyboard, and we simply never thought to google it along with the term "keyboard".
We will likely move away from any food related naming scheme. Please bear with us as we work our way through all of our social media posts etc and get the changes in place after choosing a new name for our product.
Now, onto the design. As I have said in another reply, we did not reverse engineer, copy, clone, or otherwise model our product after one existing on the market. The fact is, a knob can really only go in so many directions if your design prompt is to be minimal and luxurious. The gentle dish in the top and the thumb divot went through a lot of iterations to get to something we feel is truly comfortable and pleasant to touch. I cannot and will not speak about legal concerns, as I am not an attorney and will not pretend to know when and where copyright and patent law begins and ends.
Finally, I want to say thank you to everyone in this community.
Ultimately I know that our products are expensive and simple, but we stand by high quality and customer service, and manufacturing our products in a way that maintains environmental soundness and values skilled labor.