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【IC】Splitkb.com Kyria aluminum case

类型: IC
作者: chasernl
发布时间: 2020-04-21 05:15:53
更新时间: 2020-05-06 05:41:06
原链接: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=105872.0


Hi all! My name is Leonardo and I want to do my first group buy for a custom milled case for the Kyria from splitkb.com. I am in no way affiliated with splitkb.com.
I stumbled upon the aluminum milled IMK casing for the Corne keyboard. Because I like the Kyria layout more I want to create the same casing for this keyboard. I contacted a local company and they want to help prototyping the case and have given price estimates that seem reasonable starting from 50 units.
The current pricing for 50 units would be a little under 250 euro’s per unit within taxes and could drop to 200 euro if more units are ordered. Please let me know if you are interested so I can determine if this is something that can be made.
I am based in the Netherlands and do not know what shipping would cost to i.e. the United States. More details will be worked out if there is enough interest.
Some questions answered based on reactions
Quote can you post at least a render first? that way, people will consider to join it.
To be honest, I am unable to create this myself. However I have contacted a local company for milling the cases and they are willing to create to drawings and a prototype for the case. If the GB does fire because there is enough interest I will contact all participants to make sure all is created in a way that everybody wants.
Quote IMK or to be more precise, imkulio, is the handle name of a designer…(I’m not going to ring them up and bother them at this point) It would literally be false advertising to state YOUR design as otherwise.
My choice as to name the IMK case is precisely because that case is created by /u/imkulio. I think that he deserves credit for the idea and creating a milled aluminum case with acrylic bottom is not something that is patented. However I do not want to take credit for ideas that someone else came up with - especially since I am new here. So thats why I put that in the name of the post.
Quote Have you contacted the creator of the Kyria keyboard (Thomas Baart) about this?
Yes, I have contacted him and spoke about possibilities of collaboration on this project. For now no collaboration is taking place, I am doing this on my own because I would like such a case and prices for a single unit are to high (approximately 1000 euro).
Interest check form: https://forms.gle/Vs3QmYkHmPAZcRNK6
Kind regards,
Leonardo

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