类型: IC
作者:
Old_Gold_Hand
发布时间: 2020-09-09 12:32:31
更新时间:
2020-09-11 12:10:42
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=108539.0
Pancake
Discord
https://discord.gg/CPSCnE
IC Form
https://forms.gle/A5SqizVFo3qDe4sB6
Website
https://www.american-haptics.com/
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/americanhaptics/
Hi everybody, hope yall are staying safe and taking
care. I want to introduce you to our rotary encoder
peripheral, the Pancake.
The Pancake is a minimalist heavyweight. It is solid
aluminum, with a presale only brass version.
It is 3 inches (7.62 cm) in diameter, 1 and 1/2
inches (3.81 cm) tall, and weighs about 10 oz (283.5 g). It
drives a QMK flashable atmega MCU with a high quality
Bournes pushbutton rotary encoder. The weight and size
coupled with the quality of the machining gives the knob a
very smooth action.
Where are we in the development
cycle? WAIT! AREN’T YOU ALREADY RUNNING AN INTEREST CHECK ON
YOUR SILICONE MAT?!
One at a time! We have been
developing the Oxalis 1 for almost a year. A lot of
attention has been paid to the proportion and shape,
verifying it’s comfort and haptic response. The PCB is
prototyped and working, and we have iterated through several
solid models and now have a near final shape in machined
aluminum. We expect to enter presale as soon as we
exhaustively test our manufacturing. We will likely be
manufacturing this in house.
When I say “we”, I mean it. We are a team and are
highly skilled in our trades, and capable of efficiently
dividing work between us. I wouldn’t imagine posting this if
I wasn’t completely confident that our team can handle
manufacturing both products at once. If you want to know
some specifics, look into palletization, specifically how it
refers to CNC machining.
With that out of the way, we
are looking into building out a Cerakote station in our
shop, to offer more finish control. These are the initial
color ideas:
Still early in development is a mold set that will
allow artisans to make decorative knobs. We are almost done
with our breakfast pancake model. We have a resin positive
and are designing a machined aluminum mold box that should
allow artisans to effectively make resin cast knobs that
will always fit and always work with the base and pcb. Pics
to come as updates.
Supply Chain
As of now, I have
gotten a lot of quotes from other shops, as this part is so
suited to a CNC lathe. However, we feel that ultimately we
can produce these parts in house on our mill, and possibly
take a hit in our production cost, to ensure on demand
manufacturing, better quality control, and ease of
revisions. We are in talks with a few PCB houses in USA, as
we love to keep as many components as possible American
made.
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Presale
When?
We will likely run the presale directly from our
website. We would welcome vendors in other regions. This IC
will run for maybe 4 weeks, which should be enough time to
hammer out all the last little details. After that, presale
will run for maybe 4 weeks. Once every presale order is
filled, expect to see the pancake for sale, retail (get
brass during the presale if you want it!) on our website.
Thank
you for your precious time, and we look forward to any and
all feedback.
EDIT We have renamed our peripheral. The
device will now be called Oxalis 1. We wanted to move away
from any food related name. Oxalis is a plant native to our
region, and model 1 represents how many input components
there are. I hope this settles any confusion or ill will
with the MKUltra ortholinear board called Pancake. Our
apologies again to MKUltra.