类型: IC
作者: ThomasLee
发布时间: 2020-12-09
16:23:24
更新时间: 2020-12-14 22:45:30
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=110114.0
Hi everyone,
I’m Thomas from ArmSoar, we do not
currently make any keyboard parts. We make high end carbon
fiber RC gliders for competition (
www.armsoar.com).
Essentially my brother was looking for some nice
carbon fiber keycaps for a new keyboard but can’t really
find anything. We saw some attempts that were posted online
but maybe due to quality and processes I guess they never
went into production?
Since we already have a
professional composites facility in Europe producing carbon
planes and UAVs, I figured if there’s enough interest I can
spend some money on tooling, work out the prototypes and
mechanics with my team and do a limited run.
This is a
simple high level IC to see if there’s enough interest for
this to happen. No specs yet (frankly, I’ll need the
community’s help on that) but based on my research and quick
discussion with the production team, we don’t see any
technical challenges of making it.
These are the simple
things about it that I do know:
- Keycaps itself will be fully carbon fiber, hand layups by a professional composites team.
- Most likely TKL format (although I can be convinced of having num pad/etc)
- Will most likely be an injection molded plastic stem inside the keycap. We can form it in one single piece in carbon, but that’ll be very very expensive. Most likely 2-3X the below price.
-
Tooling, materials, CNC time and (high) labour time, I
would say we’re looking at around $300-$500 / set
depending on how many sets we make/sell. We’ll need 200
sets or more to make it happen. More sets = lower price,
since we can split up a lot of the upfront design, tooling
and prototyping costs against more units.
Please let me know what you think, whether you would be interested, and any suggestions on specs (which switches to make it for, etc).
We’re working on a carbon case. Will be back when we have prototypes
Please join our discord: https://discord.gg/HYpJphw9wm
Cheers,
Thomas