Aftermath of today's stream

[mighty kraken]

If/when developing the refresh of the Two HE, unless SouthPaw; please make an effort for the PCB to have the same holes as the PCB of the Two HE OG; so we can use whatever cases/foams/plates with the original Two HE PCB for upgrades 🙂

[uneven lantern]

Are there any 3rd party plates and foams?

[mighty kraken]

Yours, when you hypothetically design the Two HE v2 (you probably understood the other way around) 🙂

What I meant is for the plates and all parts for the v2 to be backwards compatible with the OG 😉

including a case ? 😄 see what I did there? 😄

Don't leave us Two HE users hanging now 😉

[tropic oxide]

It wouldnt possible due to how case is made

[mighty kraken]

Forget the case. If the pcb had the same holes, it is possible to use the v2 case/plate and accessories with an OG PCB . So you could use the OG PCB with the v2 case and mounts

The OG pcb would be the only reused material

[tropic oxide]

You would need complete redesign of pcba to use new keyboard tech like gaskets

[mighty kraken]

The new PCB and all mounts would need to have similar dimensions yes

[tropic oxide]

You know how twohe looks like

[mighty kraken]

I think I do. I have 4 of them

[tropic oxide]

So you must understand it would require completly redesigning entire keyboard

[mighty kraken]

The new v2 would simply require the same dimensional pcb with same/some fixing points

Being gasket mounted would be even simpler to achieve

[mighty kraken]

I think you don't understand where I'm trying to get at. I am only asking for the new v2 two he to be dimensional equal to the existing pcb.
So we can then upgrade the original ones with the new cases and mounts/ gaskets

This is the epiphany of retro compatibility

And all current two he owners would be happy to transplant their pcb to the new case/ mount design

[tropic oxide]

@mighty kraken it is all up to mark and erik

Because they are pushing twohe to be made

[mighty kraken]

I see this as a win win, hence why I am proving the feedback here

[tropic oxide]

But you must understand current pcb cant be converted to diffrent mounting style how grounding works in this pcb

[mighty kraken]

Being gasket mounted it makes no difference. The ground is also fed on the jst connector

[tropic oxide]

https://youtu.be/mj66YesiJJk?si=hcYt5oWSLkSg258P 54s

[mighty kraken]

I know about the o-ring for ground. But isnt ground passed on the jst as well?

[tropic oxide]

If they would do another fullsize it wouldnt have two diffrent cables to just to make keyboard work

It would be like in 80he

One cable for for everything

[mighty kraken]

That can be resolved with an adapter cable , in case the v2 has a daughter board

[tropic oxide]

Which would make both keyboards uncompatible with each other

[mighty kraken]

The adapter cable would include the o- ring, but connect to the new daughter board

Problem solved 😃

[tropic oxide]

It wouldnt

[mighty kraken]

Why?

[tropic oxide]

Ask tony

[uneven lantern]

Ah okay, I understood your original post backwards.

It's a reasonable consideration, but I wouldn't want to be prevented from making fundamental improvements on the basis of ensuring backwards compatibility with an old pcba.

I could see a situation where a choice might need to be made between an improved functionality or backwards compatibility. In that case, a sacrifice must be made by either old customers (lose backwards compatibility) or new customers (miss out on a feature).

I can't answer this one way or another at this point in time, but I can assure you that current owners of W2HE would be considered, were there to be development work being done on a full sized refresh.

[mighty kraken]

I'll be happy as long is this is considered! 🙂 💗

[brisk dock]

All the best for 2he v2

If there's no woot numpad at least there's something full sized I can go for if I'm really hungry for Numpad

[mild current]

what why me

also a bit confusing to call a wire lug an "o-ring" when o-ring usually means a rubber ring

[mighty kraken]

My bad. We call the connector o-ring. But you get the reference