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【IC】GMK Carbon R2

类型: IC
作者: T0mb3ry
发布时间: 2018-07-05 14:48:21
更新时间: 2018-10-29 16:28:33
原链接: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=96488.0


KITS ARE LOCKED!

I am open only for changes which do fix some major issues if there are any.
Dear fellow geeks,
i welcome you to the interest check for GMK Carbon Round 2 which will probably happen on Massdrop in Q4 of this Year (german fiscal year format). So we got some time and i want to use it for getting usefuland constructivefeedback for the upcomming drop.
GMK Carbon Round 1 owners will be able to get some addons since its using still the same custom colors. Tho not all kits will be compatible with GMK Carbon Round 1. The reason: I am very passionate about this hobby and i am in mad love with Cherry profile and i decided to focus in this round onto vintage Cherry profile. Most of you heard probably about the row 0 and row 5 which you will find on some vintage Cherry boards but also in some current GMK Groupbuys. For example recent Triumph Adler Groupbuy which i joined in a heart beat after it went online.
However most of groupbuys do utilze only rows 1,2,3 and 4. This is because row 5 is missing 1.25u key which is crucial for most modern layouts and making a new mold for it is actually an expensive investment. In general any key mold is expensive and please dont mix it with legend molds. So in this round i want to take the chance and introduce 1.25u key for row 5, which will make Cherry profile complete from my enthusiastic point of view. I hope this fruits and i hope if the mold gets build it will be used extensively in all upcoming GMK keyset projects. Also it may motivate keyset designer to rerun their keysets which i would love to see.
Anyway let me show you how a full Cherry profile looks like from the side:

Keep in mind i am using modern row notation. Afaik in cherry dicumentation the rows are called (from left to right): F, E, D, C, B, A
So this side view displays also how the base sets for round 2 will be. Being honest i can say setting up the full cherry profile kits was quite challenging since i had to rethink all the established kit designs. The additional rows 0 and 5 do requiring more keys in order to cover some important basic layouts.
GMK Carbon round 2 will probably drop in November or December of 2018
So enough said and i dont like to write much. Here are the kits for Round 2.
Base kits


Upgrade for Round 1 GMK Carbon - DISCARDED :'( :'( :'(
Extension kits










Novelty kits






Kits are not final and are subject to change. Base kits are almost complete and if i dont discover some major flaw they will get only minor changes.
If you dont see the kit you desire dont worry here is my ToDo list with missing kits:

  • Definitely Spacebar kit (need some confirmations in order to make it) done
  • Definitely International kit (NORDEUK) done
  • Definitely Dvorak and Colemak kit. done
  • Definitely a kit with some usefull extra keys like vertical function keys. discarded
  • Definitely a kit with icon bottom row ala Yuri. Considering also OS specific keys like for win or macos partially done and partially discarded
  • Probably Upgrade kit for round 1 to Vintage rows. done
  • Probably 40% kit done
  • Probably beige mods with og icons like Bone base kit and some sugar keys like in alpha extensions (see the bee caps lock key in Beezarre alphas) done
  • Probably any idea i get…
    If you want to provide any constructive and usefull feedback/suggestion then please respond below. I will be thankfull.
    Please keep in mind i read every response and consider every made suggestion but i am not obliged to make every suggestion reality.
    Thank you for your attention.
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