类型: IC
作者:
Ashardalon
发布时间:
2020-06-01 12:48:07
更新时间: 2020-07-15 12:46:53
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=106735.0
Hello everyone! The last 4-5 months of hiatus on the
set has been primarily due to an overload of work on my end,
as I was working two jobs before COVID-19 struck, as well as
building relationships and expanding horizons for the
business. With a renewed vigor, Ports interest check will be
resuming with a vast amount of changes and updates!
Infinikey Port
The Set
For those that have
seen the previous IC thread from a wee while ago, Port’s
colouring is inspired from a well-loved Australian dessert,
the jelly slice, very specifically the port wine jelly
slice. The trifecta of colours are layers of jelly topping,
sweetened condensed milk, and crushed Arnott’s Biscuits.
Aeroplane jelly is the definition of an Australian brand, as
it has been owned and ran by the same family since 1927. As
an Australian, it’s an honour to translate that feeling of
nostalgia and home to a keyboard and to the global
community.
/DISCLAIMER/ Infinikey
Port is not affiliated with RAMA WORKS in any way, shape, or
form.
The colours have changed over from RAL to Pantone
with the change from GMK to Infinikey. They will stay very
similar, but I feel that the new Pantone colours are richer
and much closer to what I had envisioned.
A deal has
been struck with TheKey.Company (TKC) to manufacture the kit
through Infinikey, and thus will be changed over to PBT from
GMK and ABS. There are a variety of reasons for this, and I
will go into those below.
The first is the development
of dye-subbing that the Infinikey factory has developed: it
is now much easier to have reverse dye-sub with the PBT
material, which was nigh-impossible when I had posted the
thread for GMK Port last year. This allows for a
near-infinite number of opportunities for keycap sets in a
variety of colours alongside a shorter manufacturing period,
lower MOQ requirements, and a lower cost to consumers for
more keys. TKC has been incredibly accommodating with
working the set in to their schedule, negotiating with their
own worldwide proxies, and assisting with any questions Ive
had.
Kits
Unlike the variety of
kits that were originally declared under GMK, Infinikey Port
has two kits: the core kit which will come with a couple
novelties and the majority of keys most layouts will need,
and the mega add-on kit, which provides more novelties and
more niche keycaps that should fill just about any board.
There will be no changes to these kits as they have been
chosen to cover the largest field of layouts at the best
price possible.
Core Kit - $85
Mega Add-On Kit - $40
Renders
Iron165 by
Smith+Rune
J-02 by JaeKeebs
Nirvana by ogWalker and Chad
Iron180 by Smith + Rune
To keep up to date on all my projects, please join my
Discord
Deskmats
Jelly for Dinner
Jelly for Tea
GB Date and Duration
I’m
incredibly happy to announce the groupbuy date for Infinikey
Port has been settled, and will begin on July 17th! The set
will run for two weeks with an MOQ of 100 for both kits.
Vendors
- USA: TheKey.Company
- Canada: Ashkeebs
- EU: Prototypist
- AU: Switchkeys
-
Asia: zFrontier
Credits
Lots of new people to thank again for all their hard work!
OneCreativeMind - Your amazing, quick work with getting the deskmats, box art, and novelties done within two days. I was struggling trying to visualize all of them and you did it so easily!
ogWalker - For doing all of my new renders, it means a lot. Thank you for joining my team, and I look forward to the work we’ll get to do together in the future. Thanks also for reaching out to some artisan makers to try and get collaborations!
Memories - For creating and moderating my Discord server, as well as always being available to reach out to should I need help.
Jackie - As always my friend, thank you for your work on my website, and for working on creating a beautiful IC/GB page on the site that’s going to be available soon. You’ve had to do this a second time now and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it!
Rise from TKC - You’ve been so helpful and have brought new hope to having Port be a success. Thank you for finding the time to squeeze my set in, and I look forward to seeing how it turns out with Infinikey!
And a big thank you to everyone who has been messaging me with support for the set; it’s not been an easy year for me so far, and your support means so much.
Updates - 06/08/20: Deskmat renders and pantones added
- 06/10/20: Kits updated to include Konstantin’s core kit suggestions 1 and 2, and mega add-on kit suggestion 5 for ortho & 40s. Candybar Numpad keys also added to the 40s area. Deskmats given names thematic to the Aeroplane Jelly theme song
- 06/24/20: Final pricing and date set. Alphakeycaps Keypora confirmed on Instagram, Primecaps collaboration to begin once samples come through in July
- 07/15/20: Updated pricing on Mega Add-on Kit, much lower now! Sorry for the mistake