类型: IC
作者: fkcaps
发布时间: 2019-10-15 04:25:51
更新时间:
2019-10-16 06:20:30
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=102943.0
Hello dear MK community,
Today we are teaming up to try
to fill a void in the current offer on Choc keycaps. Here
are the contestants:
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u/mburger89 owns a Planck light and designed/printed his own keycaps
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u/fk-caps is creating a custom dye sub service (read more here)
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u/adroom has created the Bamboo, a 40% low profile keyboard using its own keycaps profile (read more here)
We would like to check your interest around choc keycaps, as we are facing some important questions:
Profile options
u/mburger89 and u/adroom have both designed a keycap profile, called respectively MBK and TEA. We won’t be able to actually produce them both (unless we meet MOQs but given the small size of the choc market right now, we highly doubt it).
So here are some renders of both profiles side-by-side:
Left to right: Cherry, DSA, TEA, MBK
TEA vs MBK
Side view: Cherry / DSA / TEA / MBK
Question /#1: which one would you buy? (Please reply in the IC form)
Note: in those renders, the MBK has been rendered as rectangular. While this could be the case (depending on the outcome of question 2), it is more likely that we’ll produce them as squares.
Square vs Rectangular
Planck Light has kinda set a standard among choc keycaps, with a rectangular shape.
Planck Light’s rectangular keycaps
This may be problematic as MX and Choc footprints are slightly different but PCBs may implement both in a square space… Now if you put rectangular keycaps in a square space, that is not going to look nice.
Question /#2: should we go with square or rectangular keycaps?
Sizes options (and mold costs!)
To keep mold costs down, we expect to produce only a few sizes (most choc keyboards are ortho anyway).
Question /#3: what size(s) do you need?
If we do 1u only, this would drastically keep the molds cost down. Please state your opinion by filling the IC form.
Material
With no further ado, question /#4: ABS or PBT?
This obviously has an impact on the mould costs too so choose wisely! We don’t have exact numbers as we plan to go with PBT as it is considered as a higher quality material (which may be subjective for some people). Please let us know if you would prefer ABS in the IC form (note: double shots won’t be possible, maybe next time!).
Custom dye sub
We are partnering with FKcaps which intends to provide a custom dye sub service. So if we go with PBT, everyone would be able to pick its own legends. We won’t dive into details about what the FK team is doing, but you may find more details here.
Vendors (for blanks)
The custom dye sub service put aside, those vendors have shown interest in reselling the blanks: -
DailyClack (AUS)
To be included in that list, DM me on Discord: kartsims/#7467 or post a comment below
Thanks!
Thanks to all those who will participate in this, we are looking forward to seeing more low profile keyboards in this community!
IC form