iFreilicht

Oh cool, a mech club! I see loads of you guys have Full-size boards or TKLs, hope you don't mind a bit of 60% action  
My current daily driver is a Sentraq S60-X with Gateron Browns and one MX Lock switch. Keycaps are White PBT from NPKC, some of which I've dyed orange with iDye Poly.
 

 
Firmware is a custom port to QMK, as the S60-X only came with TMK at the time I bought it. You can see the layout here, it's mostly standard ANSI except for the split right shift. I'm using US-International to input the German special characters Ä, Ö, Ü and ß.
 

Well here we go, the legs have been redone. They now have a more smooth and round shape at the upper part.

 

Also increased the surface area and therefor strengthened the structure with about 150% more surface area.

 

Obviously the legs will get sanded down and chromed.

 


Time to get that screen onto this table then 

 


Screenholder getting bored and threaded

 

Using a 65 mm thick shaftsteel to hold the screen in place

 

 

Trown in place

 

Tried to get the shape of the screen emulated and keep the same curvature of the wood

 

And mounted in place!

 

 

 

It's a heavy piece now

 

Testfitting the back wood panel.

 

 

 

 

Next up is sanding and getting back some of the things from chrome

This is actually against the rules. However, you can just search those forums

That's good, just wanted to make sure you weren't upset and reacting to some bad news or something, I didn't think you would give up on this lightly, but just wanted to offer a suggestion in case you hadn't considered every alternative.
I hope you'll keep thinking of ideas and tinkering at least.. you seem to have a knack for it.

That's such a shame. Still, you did a fantastic job, and I've enjoyed following your progress a lot.
 
As a former student of Industrial Design myself (albeit at Bachelor level), I wish you the absolute best of luck with your internship!

Final update.
 
I've got some bad news for all of you. Hereby, I am stalling this project.
 
At this point, I have zero motivation to continue this, and that means it would not become the product I wanted it to be in the beginning. Its quality could not be good enough for my standards, software updates would be delayed, as well as manufacturing and shipping, even support would be far below what one could call acceptable. Everything that you've heard about a bad crowdfunded product would be absolutely unavoidable if I tried to continue this. I now understand exactly why that sort of stuff happens, and I am very glad that I held off on running a crowdfunding campaign. Let's end this on good terms.
 
I've started my internship to prepare for an Industrial Design Master degree, and that takes most of the energy I have every day. Everything that remains, I'm putting into my musical skills. The Iris 16 was one of the reasons why I decided to take this route, it convinced me that I have the skills and mindset to work in this field but need to learn a lot more to do it right.
 
The only thread about Iris 16 that I'll keep updated is the one on smallformfactor.net, we'll also discuss on there if and how anyone can take over this project so that maybe Iris 16 will come to fruition in the hands of somebody else.
 
Thank you to everyone of you who gave feedback and supported this project!

Final update.
 
I've got some bad news for all of you. Hereby, I am stalling this project.
 
At this point, I have zero motivation to continue this, and that means it would not become the product I wanted it to be in the beginning. Its quality could not be good enough for my standards, software updates would be delayed, as well as manufacturing and shipping, even support would be far below what one could call acceptable. Everything that you've heard about a bad crowdfunded product would be absolutely unavoidable if I tried to continue this. I now understand exactly why that sort of stuff happens, and I am very glad that I held off on running a crowdfunding campaign. Let's end this on good terms.
 
I've started my internship to prepare for an Industrial Design Master degree, and that takes most of the energy I have every day. Everything that remains, I'm putting into my musical skills. The Iris 16 was one of the reasons why I decided to take this route, it convinced me that I have the skills and mindset to work in this field but need to learn a lot more to do it right.
 
The only thread about Iris 16 that I'll keep updated is the one on smallformfactor.net, we'll also discuss on there if and how anyone can take over this project so that maybe Iris 16 will come to fruition in the hands of somebody else.
 
Thank you to everyone of you who gave feedback and supported this project!

Sorry to hear this man. You're doing the right thing though, I would hate something that I poured my heart and soul into, to end up as something that I couldn't care less about.
Well, I wish you all the best... you certainly have the right stuff as far as I am concerned, and that's pride in your work and integrity, which is much more than I can say for some business owners.
I think you will go far, and you will be even better at this stuff once you have completed your training. All I can say is I wouldn't give up on it completely if I were you, I would put it on the back burner until you've had some more time training in your skills, and you may think of another way to do it, or improve upon it even. So IMO it'd be better to give it time to see what to do with it if anything... if you for sure kill it or give the project to someone else, then you may regret it. Maybe give it 6-12 months and then decide, at least then you could say you gave it more thought while you weren't stressed about it. Completely your choice of course, I'm not trying to dissuade you, just don't want you to regret in the future after all the hard work you put in is all... I support you either way
 
Anyway, I wish you all the best whatever you do. Keep working on something, even if you kill this project for sure. You definitely have the skills.

Final update.
 
I've got some bad news for all of you. Hereby, I am stalling this project.
 
At this point, I have zero motivation to continue this, and that means it would not become the product I wanted it to be in the beginning. Its quality could not be good enough for my standards, software updates would be delayed, as well as manufacturing and shipping, even support would be far below what one could call acceptable. Everything that you've heard about a bad crowdfunded product would be absolutely unavoidable if I tried to continue this. I now understand exactly why that sort of stuff happens, and I am very glad that I held off on running a crowdfunding campaign. Let's end this on good terms.
 
I've started my internship to prepare for an Industrial Design Master degree, and that takes most of the energy I have every day. Everything that remains, I'm putting into my musical skills. The Iris 16 was one of the reasons why I decided to take this route, it convinced me that I have the skills and mindset to work in this field but need to learn a lot more to do it right.
 
The only thread about Iris 16 that I'll keep updated is the one on smallformfactor.net, we'll also discuss on there if and how anyone can take over this project so that maybe Iris 16 will come to fruition in the hands of somebody else.
 
Thank you to everyone of you who gave feedback and supported this project!

Final update.
 
I've got some bad news for all of you. Hereby, I am stalling this project.
 
At this point, I have zero motivation to continue this, and that means it would not become the product I wanted it to be in the beginning. Its quality could not be good enough for my standards, software updates would be delayed, as well as manufacturing and shipping, even support would be far below what one could call acceptable. Everything that you've heard about a bad crowdfunded product would be absolutely unavoidable if I tried to continue this. I now understand exactly why that sort of stuff happens, and I am very glad that I held off on running a crowdfunding campaign. Let's end this on good terms.
 
I've started my internship to prepare for an Industrial Design Master degree, and that takes most of the energy I have every day. Everything that remains, I'm putting into my musical skills. The Iris 16 was one of the reasons why I decided to take this route, it convinced me that I have the skills and mindset to work in this field but need to learn a lot more to do it right.
 
The only thread about Iris 16 that I'll keep updated is the one on smallformfactor.net, we'll also discuss on there if and how anyone can take over this project so that maybe Iris 16 will come to fruition in the hands of somebody else.
 
Thank you to everyone of you who gave feedback and supported this project!

Final update.
 
I've got some bad news for all of you. Hereby, I am stalling this project.
 
At this point, I have zero motivation to continue this, and that means it would not become the product I wanted it to be in the beginning. Its quality could not be good enough for my standards, software updates would be delayed, as well as manufacturing and shipping, even support would be far below what one could call acceptable. Everything that you've heard about a bad crowdfunded product would be absolutely unavoidable if I tried to continue this. I now understand exactly why that sort of stuff happens, and I am very glad that I held off on running a crowdfunding campaign. Let's end this on good terms.
 
I've started my internship to prepare for an Industrial Design Master degree, and that takes most of the energy I have every day. Everything that remains, I'm putting into my musical skills. The Iris 16 was one of the reasons why I decided to take this route, it convinced me that I have the skills and mindset to work in this field but need to learn a lot more to do it right.
 
The only thread about Iris 16 that I'll keep updated is the one on smallformfactor.net, we'll also discuss on there if and how anyone can take over this project so that maybe Iris 16 will come to fruition in the hands of somebody else.
 
Thank you to everyone of you who gave feedback and supported this project!

Final update.
 
I've got some bad news for all of you. Hereby, I am stalling this project.
 
At this point, I have zero motivation to continue this, and that means it would not become the product I wanted it to be in the beginning. Its quality could not be good enough for my standards, software updates would be delayed, as well as manufacturing and shipping, even support would be far below what one could call acceptable. Everything that you've heard about a bad crowdfunded product would be absolutely unavoidable if I tried to continue this. I now understand exactly why that sort of stuff happens, and I am very glad that I held off on running a crowdfunding campaign. Let's end this on good terms.
 
I've started my internship to prepare for an Industrial Design Master degree, and that takes most of the energy I have every day. Everything that remains, I'm putting into my musical skills. The Iris 16 was one of the reasons why I decided to take this route, it convinced me that I have the skills and mindset to work in this field but need to learn a lot more to do it right.
 
The only thread about Iris 16 that I'll keep updated is the one on smallformfactor.net, we'll also discuss on there if and how anyone can take over this project so that maybe Iris 16 will come to fruition in the hands of somebody else.
 
Thank you to everyone of you who gave feedback and supported this project!

It is much appreciated! If I'm lucky, I'll get two free weeks until New Year, so that should really help me pick up the pace.
 
Thanks a bunch! I keep forgetting that posting more often also means more people will find this thread. I should work on that as well.
 
You're welcome!

It is much appreciated! If I'm lucky, I'll get two free weeks until New Year, so that should really help me pick up the pace.
 
Thanks a bunch! I keep forgetting that posting more often also means more people will find this thread. I should work on that as well.
 
You're welcome!

So just a short note where I'm standing right now: I've started to get back into the software side of things, and it's looking better every day. There's now a python (command line) application that allows to download configurations from the Iris 16 and I'm now working on making uploading work as well.
 
The main goal is to have most of the work done by the visualizer and the Iris itself, so that it's easy to write client applications that interface with them. This means that the firmware is starting to get close the micro's limits, I'm already at 80% Flash usage for the program code and 50% minimum SRAM usage during runtime.
 
On the other hand, the Python app is literally 160 lines of code right now including comments, so that's pretty cool.
 
Because downloading and installing something is not necessarily a good solution, I also looked into browser extensions. And lo and behold, Chrome actually offers API for direct communication with the serial port! So that sounds like a very good option as well. You would just install the plugin in your browser and can then directly upload and download from the web-app (which could be made downloadable as well for offline use).
 
To make sure that all software dealing with the Iris is compatible, I've also rewritten the basic data structure in Protobuf, so that there is one standard definition of how the whole business with Cues, Schedules and Periods is to be stored and transmitted. It's already been a huge help to have this.
 
Today I'm also doing my tax report, which goes a huge way demonstrating how much money I put into this during the last year without getting a single buck out yet. Fun for the whole family!

Thanks for the update @iFreilicht, looking good

Awesome project! Good luck!

I will continue to wait patiently.

So just a short note where I'm standing right now: I've started to get back into the software side of things, and it's looking better every day. There's now a python (command line) application that allows to download configurations from the Iris 16 and I'm now working on making uploading work as well.
 
The main goal is to have most of the work done by the visualizer and the Iris itself, so that it's easy to write client applications that interface with them. This means that the firmware is starting to get close the micro's limits, I'm already at 80% Flash usage for the program code and 50% minimum SRAM usage during runtime.
 
On the other hand, the Python app is literally 160 lines of code right now including comments, so that's pretty cool.
 
Because downloading and installing something is not necessarily a good solution, I also looked into browser extensions. And lo and behold, Chrome actually offers API for direct communication with the serial port! So that sounds like a very good option as well. You would just install the plugin in your browser and can then directly upload and download from the web-app (which could be made downloadable as well for offline use).
 
To make sure that all software dealing with the Iris is compatible, I've also rewritten the basic data structure in Protobuf, so that there is one standard definition of how the whole business with Cues, Schedules and Periods is to be stored and transmitted. It's already been a huge help to have this.
 
Today I'm also doing my tax report, which goes a huge way demonstrating how much money I put into this during the last year without getting a single buck out yet. Fun for the whole family!

So just a short note where I'm standing right now: I've started to get back into the software side of things, and it's looking better every day. There's now a python (command line) application that allows to download configurations from the Iris 16 and I'm now working on making uploading work as well.
 
The main goal is to have most of the work done by the visualizer and the Iris itself, so that it's easy to write client applications that interface with them. This means that the firmware is starting to get close the micro's limits, I'm already at 80% Flash usage for the program code and 50% minimum SRAM usage during runtime.
 
On the other hand, the Python app is literally 160 lines of code right now including comments, so that's pretty cool.
 
Because downloading and installing something is not necessarily a good solution, I also looked into browser extensions. And lo and behold, Chrome actually offers API for direct communication with the serial port! So that sounds like a very good option as well. You would just install the plugin in your browser and can then directly upload and download from the web-app (which could be made downloadable as well for offline use).
 
To make sure that all software dealing with the Iris is compatible, I've also rewritten the basic data structure in Protobuf, so that there is one standard definition of how the whole business with Cues, Schedules and Periods is to be stored and transmitted. It's already been a huge help to have this.
 
Today I'm also doing my tax report, which goes a huge way demonstrating how much money I put into this during the last year without getting a single buck out yet. Fun for the whole family!

So just a short note where I'm standing right now: I've started to get back into the software side of things, and it's looking better every day. There's now a python (command line) application that allows to download configurations from the Iris 16 and I'm now working on making uploading work as well.
 
The main goal is to have most of the work done by the visualizer and the Iris itself, so that it's easy to write client applications that interface with them. This means that the firmware is starting to get close the micro's limits, I'm already at 80% Flash usage for the program code and 50% minimum SRAM usage during runtime.
 
On the other hand, the Python app is literally 160 lines of code right now including comments, so that's pretty cool.
 
Because downloading and installing something is not necessarily a good solution, I also looked into browser extensions. And lo and behold, Chrome actually offers API for direct communication with the serial port! So that sounds like a very good option as well. You would just install the plugin in your browser and can then directly upload and download from the web-app (which could be made downloadable as well for offline use).
 
To make sure that all software dealing with the Iris is compatible, I've also rewritten the basic data structure in Protobuf, so that there is one standard definition of how the whole business with Cues, Schedules and Periods is to be stored and transmitted. It's already been a huge help to have this.
 
Today I'm also doing my tax report, which goes a huge way demonstrating how much money I put into this during the last year without getting a single buck out yet. Fun for the whole family!

So just a short note where I'm standing right now: I've started to get back into the software side of things, and it's looking better every day. There's now a python (command line) application that allows to download configurations from the Iris 16 and I'm now working on making uploading work as well.
 
The main goal is to have most of the work done by the visualizer and the Iris itself, so that it's easy to write client applications that interface with them. This means that the firmware is starting to get close the micro's limits, I'm already at 80% Flash usage for the program code and 50% minimum SRAM usage during runtime.
 
On the other hand, the Python app is literally 160 lines of code right now including comments, so that's pretty cool.
 
Because downloading and installing something is not necessarily a good solution, I also looked into browser extensions. And lo and behold, Chrome actually offers API for direct communication with the serial port! So that sounds like a very good option as well. You would just install the plugin in your browser and can then directly upload and download from the web-app (which could be made downloadable as well for offline use).
 
To make sure that all software dealing with the Iris is compatible, I've also rewritten the basic data structure in Protobuf, so that there is one standard definition of how the whole business with Cues, Schedules and Periods is to be stored and transmitted. It's already been a huge help to have this.
 
Today I'm also doing my tax report, which goes a huge way demonstrating how much money I put into this during the last year without getting a single buck out yet. Fun for the whole family!

Sorry guys, nothing to show. I have very little time to work on this right now, so progress has been frustratingly slow  I don't even have time to visit the forums anymore, my last visit here was months ago. I'll try and free up time when my current project at work is finished.

Sorry guys, nothing to show. I have very little time to work on this right now, so progress has been frustratingly slow  I don't even have time to visit the forums anymore, my last visit here was months ago. I'll try and free up time when my current project at work is finished.