类型: IC
作者: calmfries
发布时间: 2015-10-02
01:52:25
更新时间: 2021-06-30 02:36:25
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=75731.0
(Update 13/12/15) I’ve moved this to the Artisan Services
section
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=77725.0
Debut Sale : Tarmac Orange Sale
Updated price
:
1ft - 12USD <–(base price)
2ft - 15USD
3ft
- 18USD
4ft - 21USD
5ft - 26USD
6ft -
31USD
Shipping - 10USD (worldwide)(registered mail with
tracking)
Thanks for all the support
Hi fellow GHer,
This is an IC to see whether there are
enough interest for me to start making braided USB cables
and sell it here.
I have been making my own braided
cables for quite awhile now, sometimes when I post a picture
of my keyboard, someone will ask about the cable and some
even requested me to make them one. After buying and testing
lots of wires from many different sources and lots of trial
and error, finally I managed to pick a few wires that make
great cables.
If you’re still not so convinced, please
take a look at the pictures
So, are they pretty?
I will update the approximate pricing and shipping
later
-Update 1 (02/10/15)
Hi, thanks for all the
positive feedbacks
I will list out stuff that I can get my hands on
right now and explain a little bit of what I’m offering
now.
Currently I will offer 2 types of wires, one is
the sky blue one, it’s about .6mm in thickness, so it will
need more wires (braid into one) to make it feel more
substantial instead of feeling like hair thin fragile.
Another option is the ‘white’ and black wires which are 1mm
thick in diameter, the ‘white’ one is a silver plated copper
wire, definitely audio grade and most importantly made in
USA (I actually made one audio cable with it for my SE535
iem). The black one is oxygen free copper wire, made in
Japan and audio grade as well. There will be another option
for a clear wrapping material, which shows the copper color.
Now comes to the color, the .6mm wire is sky blue
color, the ‘white’ wire actually have a hint of silver-ish
look to it irl. The black wire, same as the pic, it’s solid
black. I see quite a few of you requesting for a grey cable
and Hoff requested for a CMYK for quite awhile now. Sorry to
say I don’t have them in hand now, but I will try to find
them from different sources, and if they don’t pass, I won’t
offer them. As usual, quality comes first, also some wires
are really not suitable for braiding as they don’t hold
their shape very well (I’ve dumped more than 60m of wires
atm). I actually found a source that offers quite many
colors, I will try to buy some and try it out and update
here in near future. Currently I still haven’t see a very
accurate magenta color wire, they have translucent red and a
456gt kind of pink.
As for braiding options, there are 3 options for
4-wire braid (round, flat/#1, flat/#2). For 8-wire braid
(square, round, flat/#1, flat/#2). Usually for thinner
wires, I won’t go for a 4-wire braid, it will look and feel
pretty awful, not that it will break that easily, but it
feels like it. For a slightly thicker wire, like the 1mm
thick wire, we can do both and it will generally look more
robust.
I will use the gold plated ‘naked’ connectors
like shown in pic, but if you really want those with a
plastic housing, I can source it for you. Currently only
offers USB male to miniUSB male. I can’t seem to find fancy
color heat shrinks, good quality ones generally comes in
black, white, clear, red and blue.
Pricing. At this
point, I can’t give you a solid answer, but I can set a
rough base price of US$10 for 1ft of the sky blue cable (as
shown in pics above), and everything else add onto that
price. The USA and Japan made wires are a little more
pricey, but they are better in terms of audio quality but
totally overkill as a keyboard cable. /*that is estimated
price, not final price
Shipping. I will use registered
mail with tracking most probably and that will be about
US$10 depends on where you live on earth.
Phew, that’s
super long
Most probably I will start offering the cables in
late November, my final exam is coming pretty soon so I have
to prepare for that.
Keep in mind that cables are made
to order, so you’ll definitely have to wait for it.
Those
points that I stated above are not solid yet, so don’t quote
me on that, I can’t promise you anything atm.
Thanks
for reading all that
-Update 2 (17/10/15)
Here is an update.
Here
will be my logo (most probably), hope it’s not too shabby
A kind friend helped me a lot on getting this done, I
really suck at PS 
- 8 wire round braid
- 8 wire flat/#1
- 4 wire round braid (Silver plated copper)
-
4 wire round braid (copper)
8 wire flat/#2
Basically the braid pattern are the same on both the 4 wires and 8 wires braid, but they have a different look to it.
Colors that I will be offering,
-0.6mm
- sky blue
- will probably offer them IF they are good, waiting stock to try (black, white, grey, clear, red, translucent red, orange, yellow, light purple, blue, light blue, light green, pink, brown) /*sorry no cyan and magenta
- 1mm
- clear silver plated copper
- clear copper
-
black copper
Pricing, /*subject to change
Base price (base price includes 1 x gold plated USB A male + 1 x gold plated miniUSB male) -
0.6mm $10USD for 1ft, every additional ft is $2USD
e.g. 4ft cable will be $10 + (3 x $2) = $16 - 1mm (listed price is for 4 wire braid, 8 wire braid is double of the listed price, expensive because it’s real audio grade and imported from the states)
- copper $15USD for 1ft, every additional ft is $4USD
-
silver plated copper $16 for 1ft, every additional ft is
$5USD
the length is hand measured and measured before braiding, after braiding it will be a little bit shorter, just a little bit
Hope this update helps