[emily]

The purple solder mask color is nice, as it reminds me of the initial purple buttons (but those had a different shade of purple) shown in the original Crowd Supply campaign video.

Isn't it pretty? That's JLCPCB's purple solder mask. It's worth the extra two days of manufacturing time if the board's going to be visible.

The silkscreen markings remind me of a magical summoning circle.

:D They were meant as layout guides for placing the buttons. I totally meant to remove them before sending the board off, but decided they were pretty enough to leave. They're still there in the updated board I just sent off.

Could you describe what the texture of the button cover is like?

If you've got a 3D printer with a textured build plate nearby, it's like that. I printed it face down on one of those. If not, it's like... orange peel, maybe? Rougher than that but still like a rounded-off roughness and not a pointy roughness.

I'd like to have it printed in SLS nylon once I have a shape I'm happier with. Those are smoother, as I understand it.

Uh oh, I just realized this: is the bottom left screw still missing?

Just out of frame in that picture is a bag of 50 of those screws, because I never found the one I lost. I uploaded this picture, saw the missing screw, and said something very eloquent like "... fuck". I have since put the screw in.

We went through.... maybe 5 or 6 different switches for the volume buttons on Tangara's mainboard? It's so hard to pick good ones.

Ugh, isn't it? I've taken to just bodging 3-4 different switch footprints together into one to reduce the board respins when one of them turns out to be trash: