Hi there, and welcome to this monthly UHK status update!
Module shipping has peaked in June, and as a result, we’ve received some tweets which make us very excited.
.@UltHackKeyboard I am now fully moduled up! Very impressed with the trackball module especially. It has the same immediate usability and feeling of “how did I manage without this” of the UHK itself! #gotmyuhk pic.twitter.com/lsS2XUWqQl
— Steve Brownett (@stevebrownett) June 7, 2021
Track-point is awesome. Been using my track-point module from @UltHackKeyboard for about a week now.
— Eric Wooley 🐘 (@ericwooley) June 20, 2021
Just put my mouse in the drawer. I don't need it anymore.
How is track-point not more popular? It's so elegant
Yay! The last part of my @UltHackKeyboard has arrived! pic.twitter.com/UjcZ3KhyI6
— Heidi hopes you are ok (@wiredferret) June 21, 2021
Right now, module production is on a temporary halt, and it’ll resume in two days; we recently noticed that a large portion of module cases didn’t meet our quality standards, and we had to get new cases made. This issue set back module production by about one and a half weeks, unfortunately. We’ll be doing more thorough early incoming quality control to catch such problems early on.
We’ll keep churning out the modules, and we expect to ship every Crowd Supply order in the first half of July. The delivery of non-EU orders via Crowd Supply may take weeks longer due to the extra fulfillment and shipping step on their part.
We’ll continue with the modules ordered via the UHK webshop, and we believe we’ll ship most or all of them until the end of July, except for the modules of UHK 60 v2 customers who haven’t ordered a UHK 60 v1. We’ll deliver such modules together with UHK 60 v2 keyboards, as the modules are not helpful without a keyboard.
As for UHK 60 v2 production, we’re only two days away from having the final mold, but our injection molding supplier has an organizational restructuring which can delay the production schedule by about a week or two. When the first molded UHK 60 v2 parts come off the assembly line, we’ll see how much tweaking has to be made to the mold. We believe we can launch UHK 60 v2 production in late July.
From that point forward, we’ll continuously ship UHK 60 v2 pre-orders on a first-come, first-served basis as quickly as we can, possibly until the end of the year. We can’t provide a more precise production schedule yet, but we’ll keep you updated monthly as usual.
We appreciate your patience, and we’re looking forward to talking to you at the end of July.
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Nicely done!
Could you please clarify: what order are the modules sent in? Website orders first, then Crowdsupply or vice versa? Thanks!
We ship in the order of the preorders. Now it means, first we ship Crowd Supply orders, but there was a period when we also shipped orders from our webshop and also from Crowd Supply mixed, then we will continue with the order from our webshop. You can find more details in our blog posts.
"we recently noticed that a large portion of module cases didn’t meet our quality standards, and we had to get new cases made"
What does that mean? Are you talking about the packaging, or the actual plastic casing for the module itself?
The plastic case of the module itself.
How about the modules that are shipped with this flaw?
No modules were shipped with this flaw.
kudos for your quality control!
Thanks for the update, Laszlo. I can't but have to wait to have it in my hands, xD
I'm wondering, and probably many of more, is there an estimate of how many orders have been placed, and the rate at which the keyboards will be manufactured and shipped?
Sincerelly Ange,
The number of the orders is not a public information. We share all information we can, and send 2 notification emails before and at the date of delivery. You can follow the latest news always on our blog. We will try to provide estimates regarding pending orders in our next update.
Hi,
I bought the UHKv2 on march 19, 2021 and I'm still wating for my keyboard. I didn't know that the process was going to take that long. In fact, I realized that some people have been wating for years! I'm really disappointed. You should to warning to the customer that buying process take years!
I would like to know when I will have my keyboard.
Thanks
We are sorry you feel disappointed. You can follow the news step by step on the blog, or you can subscribe to our monthly newsletter (https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/newsletter), so we can keep you updated.
We ship all preorders soon as possible, still this year, and in the order of the preorders.
Kindly note, v2 products can be purchased since last year. Those who are waiting for longer are waiting for their modules, not v2 products. The modules are totally new products also on the market, no one has similar product until now, therefore the development takes much longer.
UHK v2 is a new version of an already existing product, the UHK v1, so it needs less time, of course.
Hello,
As we're approaching the end of July, just want to check how far along you are with the module shipping. I ordered my modules around this time last year on UHK webshop. Can I expect my order to ship out within this month?
Thank you.
We are continuously shipping the modules and plan to ship all modules for UHK v1 owners in the next 1-2 weeks.
The new blog post will be available this weekend, we will also share updates about ETA.
I ordered the keyboard on June 20, 2021, when will it ship?
We will share updates about ETA this weekend in our new blog post.
Hey guys. I am really looking forward to the upcoming update. Is it coming this week?
I am hoping you will provide some delivery estimates this time. For example: keyboards bought in December will be shipped by ... January - by ... etc. It would be really nice.
The new blog post will be available this weekend with ETA updates.
Hey guys. I want to know what order number is shipped to uhk v2 pre-ordered.
We will share the news regarding UHK v2 pre-orders in our next update, this weekend.
Thank you for your work, we appreciate it!
The v2 is the almost best keyboard for me, I really like it. But what can make it the best?)
How do you estimate the possibility of make the orthogonal version? I know it hard, but it's the last step to G.O.A.T.) What the community can do to see UHK orthogonal keyboard?
Thank you for your nice words!
Please check our Knowledgebase on https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/knowledgebase?q=ortho ;)
Not meaning to hijack this comment, but I didn't really know the best place to submit this request/suggestion:
I also am looking forward to seeing an ortholinear UHK, but one thing I would love to see is the same number/general position of keys for each row for the current right half of the UHK v1/2. Although I love ortholinear design, I really dislike how keyboards like the Kinesis Advantage and ErgoDox EZ require you to use Enter/Return on a thumb button or mapped to another layer (or have to add the apostrophe key to another layer - thinking in ANSI here). I personally would like to have the option to use my right pinky for all of the keys in the general location I'm used to using for the UHK 60 v1/2 (Enter/Return, Delete/Backspace, etc.) without require additional layering.
Thank you for your consideration!
Thanks for your suggestion! I can see where you're coming from. I'll try my best to design the ortholinear UHK layout with this constraint in mind, but I can't promise anything because there are many design decisions to consider.
Thank you.
I hope it will happen soon! I mean, announce definitely will stop people to continue to buy the old classic keyboards such as ErgoDox, Iris...
It's the 31st of July. No emails were sent and updates no updates were posted to tell us when our orders would get shipped. Maybe you're really doing all that's possible to get the modules shipped. Maybe you've been quite busy all this time.
The communication has been nothing but disappointing.
I was also promised that a shipping fee would be refunded later. It's been more than two months since placing my order.
We are sorry for it!
The reimbursements will be done later, as we mentioned.
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