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Tilt, tent, and screw with the UHK

The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard gives you options!

Most keyboards don’t have a lot to offer in terms of ergonomics. But with the UHK and our new stretch goal, a super-high-quality palm rest, you’ve got tons of them.

Take a look at the palm rest set up in various arrangements, starting with the flat setup:

flat-stand

Tilted setup:

tilted-stand

Tented setup:

tented-stand

András is quite serious when it comes to durable mechanical design. So much so that the base of the palm rest is a solid stainless steel sheet. We surely don’t expect people to wreck this anytime soon. As you can see, the palm rest also comes with a set of legs which can be set in various configurations. It’s up to you which set-up is most comfortable.

You can even screw in your UHK.

We’ve heard from a few people who love the UHK because it will help them handle their disabilities. One creative backer even suggested that they would be attaching each keyboard half to an armchair. In situations like this, we’ve got you covered!

Mountable case

The keyboard features four threaded stainless steel inserts per keyboard half

As far as we know, the UHK is the first keyboard to use stainless steel mounting inserts. These are perfect for screwing your keyboard into almost any situation.

If you’re mounting your beloved keyboard (like to an arm-chair) and need a little more room than the provided cable can allow, not to worry! We’ve got you covered here, too. You can use any standard telephone cable. A while back, I even tried a 20 meter (66ft) long cable. Check it out:

1st campaign update

Welcome to the first in-campaign installment of our newsletter! The last two weeks were more than eventful as I travelled to San Francisco and met some of you. I had some great conversations about mechanical keyboards and other geeky stuff in general. Being treated to free food at Twitch and Google was really just icing on the cake!

And then came the briefings, starting with Tom’s Guide. I’m a pasty nerd who usually just tinkers all day, so getting featured on camera wasn’t exactly the most natural thing for me to do. But it went surprisingly well.

Laci being interviewed by Marshall Honorof of Tom’s Guide

Being interviewed by Marshall Honorof of Tom’s Guide (See the video!)

Next came New York - where we launched the campaign on October 15th, just in time to head to getgeeked (the tech event) to show off the UHK prototypes.

I met with seasoned software developers, MIT graduates, the press, and everybody in-between. I’ve had a great time talking to you, answering questions and seeing the level of interest. It was especially empowering to hear many of you after the demo saying with full conviction that there’s not even a doubt that you will pledge. And according to the post-event statistics, you surely did.

People start to flow into getgeeked

People start to flow into getgeeked

We had a great launch of our campaign at Crowd Supply, collecting $80K in the first 4 days! All thanks for your support!

If you haven’t pledged yet, we still have some UHKs available at the Early Bird price - so now’s the time to order your Keyboard!

The UHK is now listed in Product Hunt. Please check it out, and join the conversation!

Let’s see some statistics of the various options that you have chosen, starting with the layout:

Layout statistics

Keycap printing statistics:

Keycap printing statistics

Switch type statistics:

Switch type statistics

We will keep you posted on about a weekly basis with demos, tear-downs, statistics, and other materials of your interest, so stay tuned!

Our campaign has started!

We've just launched on Crowd Supply!

UHK on Crowd Supply

Now is the time to head over to our campaign page and pledge. Let's make this happen!

We will be posting to the updates section to our campaign page during our campaign instead of updating this blog.

Also, the main page of our site will be redirecting to the campaign page for the duration of our campaign.

Let’s clap together!

Tick-Tock, the time is ticking, and now there’s only a week left until the start of our campaign on October 15th.

Making a campaign a success is no small task. But luckily, we have a secret weapon:

You!

You can help us make the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard a success by joining our Thunderclap - which will sync your social voice with all the other UHK supporters to create a massive online announcement as soon as the campaign launches. If we get enough help, it might result in a clap so big that it rearranges the very structure of the cyberspace!

There’s only a week left - so stay tuned!

UHK Launching in 2 Weeks

After all this time, we’re letting you know that we’ll be launching our campaign on October 15th. Yay!

Launching on 2015-10-15

Crowd Supply will be our crowdfunding platform of choice. We love them for a number of reasons: they are heavily focused on hardware, very hands on with projects, and make sure that their campaigns not only launch and get funded, but also deliver the goods.

To spice things up even more, we’ll be in New York at getgeeked on October 15th, and will launch the online campaign right then and there. It’s the perfect opportunity for you to say hi and play around with our prototypes.

As icing on the cake, I will be in San Francisco from October 6th to the 13th. Wanna meet me over a beer and try out one of our prototypes? Be sure to get in touch!

We will be offering one-time, super-early bird deals at the launch, so that you can get UHK at the best price ever. You’re welcome to share the news with your friends and get them subscribed, so that they’ll be able to get the best deal, too.

Talk to you soon!

How our trailer video was made

We thought that those of you who like documentaries would appreciate the behind of scenes look of how our trailer video was made. Luckily for us Csaba Kiss, creator of our trailer video has made a great write-up about the process with many pictures included.

The 3D mesh of the case

The 3D mesh of the case

Csaba is a great guy and a knowledgable professional who will also shoot our Kickstarter video. Should you need any such work to be done, he's your man.

People are making some noise!

Lately, we've put a lot of work into making our image look snazzy by redesigning our site and finishing our trailer video. Looks like our efforts are starting to pay off.

A week ago our traffic exploded thanks to a subreddit. Later on, Geekhack also started and notice us and on this very day 444.hu which is one of the largest news sites of Hungary published a (Hungarian) article about us.

LED display

András and Laci separating the 3rd generation prototype - image is courtesy of 444.hu

We're grateful for everyone involved, let's keep up the buzz!

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