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A one-person hardware lab in Marion, North Carolina.

Hardin Labs designs the V-Board. Everything on this site — the layout, the three-board split, the case, the firmware — came out of one workshop, and the work is at the point where the next useful thing is someone else’s hands on it. Email is the whole front desk.

sagenorage@gmail.com
John F. Hardin · Founder
What is useful

Four things worth an email.

In rough order of how much difference it would make.

01
A first article

Someone who has assembled a split board before and is willing to look at the centre-board module footprint before it is ordered. That single unverified dimension is what stands between this design and a physical keyboard.

02
Manufacturing

Small-run assembly, case machining or printing, and anyone who has taken a three-board keyboard through a fabrication house and knows where the cost actually lands.

03
Hard criticism

Design review is more useful here than encouragement. If the matrix, the USB bus or the ergonomics are wrong, the cheapest time to hear it is before the first order.

04 — Typing on one

There is no waiting list and nothing to pre-order. If the board goes to production, it will be announced on this site first. Anyone who writes in the meantime will hear about it when it happens.