» – The Miniguru – Always on the Home Row

About Kickstarter

Steff — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:28:44 +0000

From time to time I receive emails that suggest that I should kickstarter this project. This won’t work because Kickstarter will only allow US-based projects:

http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/creators#AmIEligToStarAKickProj

Also, money is not the problem yet, it’s still time.

2012: Year of Hope

Steff — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:54:12 +0000

An unavoidable personal project during the first half of 2011 left no time for this project. Since then it’s been difficult to put the kit back on track. With another job coming up there’s no way I can make it this year. I changed the header date to 2012. :-(

Also, I had to switch off commenting because of spam. Editing the template code didn’t help, the spammers apparently use bugs in the core to enter their comments. If you have questions please use the contact form or – better – post in the Miniguru thread on Geekhack.

2011: Year of Hope

Steff — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:27:18 +0000

Mass production has been canceled but there should be a mini series or a kit somewhen in 2011:

Click here for the Miniguru thread on geekhack.org, starting on page 45

Also, got this today:

Thanks for the many, many comments on my last post, I wouldn’t have thought about another try without those.

Miniguru Canceled

Steff — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:50:17 +0000

Production of the Miniguru has been canceled. :-(

I don’t want to list the specific reasons here, let’s just say that mainly we lost faith in being able to sell the initial production run.

Thanks to all who sent messages of support and my apologies to those how have been waiting for this keyboard.

Welcome to the Miniguru Preview Site

Steff — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:28:58 +0000

The Miniguru was started as a mod over at the geekhack.org forums. It got some momentum there and this preview site is where we are now. One of the reasons for the preview site is to see if this momentum will hold with a broader audience.

The configurator on the preview site also introduces the concept of distributed on-demand assembly for keyboards. Something that could be done with PowerPoint but, well, that would be no fun!

As there are many unknown factors yet, the launch date at the top of the site is a rough estimate. It’s probably a bit on the optimistic side too.

Good luck on finding that ultimate color combination. ;-)