Susuwatari got virus

Posted on 2020, February 24 in Updates

There’s no sugar-coating, everyone knows what is happening in China (and in the rest of the world). Factories are requested by law to stay closed and they need special permits to re-open. As far as I know until last week most of China was closed for Corona Virus. I don’t have news regarding the last few days but I’m pretty sure Susuwatari production has stopped for quite some time now.

To add insult to injury, Italy (where I live) is experiencing a virus outbreak and we now have the third most number of cases globally just after China and Korea.

Before the Chinese New Year I got a new round of samples, enough to cover a WhiteFox keyboard. There still some work to do, but we are getting really close.

At the same time we are working on the packaging, I saw some samples few days ago and at least that is sorted out.

I wish I had better news, but there’s nothing we can do until this crisis ends and we all hope it ends real soon.

Unfortunately this is also going to impact the release of /dev/tty2 that we were finalizing just few weeks ago.

UPDATE: I had confirmation that the work on Susuwatari has restarted. They are working on legends thickness inconsistency. Hopefully I should get a new round of prototypes in a few weeks.

Comments

Posted by Sam on 2020, February 25 @ 06:46

Thanks for the update, those samples on the whitefox look very promising! Hopefully we get better news soon and the green light for /dev/tty once the situation improves.

Posted by Dmitry on 2020, February 25 @ 09:37

Take care

Posted by Thomas Kutz on 2020, February 27 @ 05:37

I don’t understand the update at the end of the post. Has the factory re-opened and everything is all good?

Separately, is there a hint of brown in there? They look perfect. 👀

Posted by matt3o on 2020, February 29 @ 11:26

they just reopened and they are working on it. Things are still not 100% but at least we are moving again.

Posted by Sean on 2020, March 11 @ 11:36

Heard the situation is really bad in Italy. How r u holding up Matteo?

Posted by matt3o on 2020, March 11 @ 12:37

All good so far, but it will take another few weeks to get back to normal. Thanks for asking!

Posted by Anonymous on 2020, March 12 @ 05:46

thanks for the update, any estimates at all when we might be able to expect the /dev/tty GB starting?

Posted by matt3o on 2020, March 13 @ 07:59

I should get more prototypes in a couple of days, if they are okay we can start production
1. Posted by Anonymous on 2020, March 14 @ 19:12
  
  great news, thanks!

Posted by chaorace on 2020, March 13 @ 14:07

Cursed keycaps! I’m looking forward to the day it does show up, though. If anything, it’s a keycap set with a story attached :-)

Posted by Boes on 2020, March 25 @ 16:38

I’ll get this keycap to build a keyboard to remind me of this mess.
Any change of getting a 2x R4 shift key? For GK64?

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