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« on: Sun, 17 June 2012, 14:30:07 »
So, if you guys could have something modeled on a keycap (think how CC does his), what would it be? Let's consider this... market research.
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« Reply #1 on: Sun, 17 June 2012, 14:31:57 »
I think it would be best to come up with your own original idea. If you ask everyone what they want, they will tell you a million different things. Come up with a unique idea that hasn't been done yet. Iterate and perfect it.

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« Reply #2 on: Sun, 17 June 2012, 14:32:57 »
CTHULHU*!!!

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« Reply #3 on: Sun, 17 June 2012, 14:33:36 »
Quote from: MagicMeatball;615624
I think it would be best to come up with your own original idea. If you ask everyone what they want, they will tell you a million different things. Come up with a unique idea that hasn't been done yet. Iterate and perfect it.
Maybe I want to make a bunch of different ones! Maybe not! I just want to hear from the community.
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« Reply #4 on: Sun, 17 June 2012, 14:42:49 »
I kinda love the idea of a keycap that has 80s style ray ban sunglasses 'cut' into them, like the CC caps and those super-hero ones I've seen about...

and to have them on a neon pink cap would be pretty baller

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« Reply #5 on: Sun, 17 June 2012, 17:15:03 »
Han solo's face coming out of a flat grey keycap.

That'd be awesome.
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« Reply #6 on: Sun, 24 June 2012, 00:03:24 »
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« Reply #7 on: Sun, 24 June 2012, 00:31:35 »
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« Reply #8 on: Sun, 24 June 2012, 00:33:49 »
Well hey, 3 great ideas that I would personally buy. Cthulhu, Han and sunglasses are all great, but they need to be Cherry profile not those nasty tall Filco profile crap. Hmn... so something else? I guess I am not feeling very creative right now, but how about the Cherry logo in a 3D molded cap? Seems rather obvious... huge bonus if it could be pulled off in 3 color like red cherries green leaves white base.

I would also like to take this time to suggest you change the thread title to '3D/molded custom keycap designs' or something to differentiate from typical 2shot, dyesub etc styles usually covered in the other thread.
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« Reply #9 on: Sun, 24 June 2012, 15:46:11 »
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Well hey, 3 great ideas that I would personally buy. Cthulhu, Han and sunglasses are all great, but they need to be Cherry profile not those nasty tall Filco profile crap. Hmn... so something else? I guess I am not feeling very creative right now, but how about the Cherry logo in a 3D molded cap? Seems rather obvious... huge bonus if it could be pulled off in 3 color like red cherries green leaves white base.

I would also like to take this time to suggest you change the thread title to '3D/molded custom keycap designs' or something to differentiate from typical 2shot, dyesub etc styles usually covered in the other thread.

you could put either design into any shape cap if you wanted...

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« Reply #10 on: Wed, 01 August 2012, 10:19:30 »
Dark marijuana leaf on light green keycap.  ;)

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« Reply #11 on: Wed, 01 August 2012, 14:27:55 »
Sci fi heads with a eye gaps for led boards. Think warhammer 40k terminators, cylons, predator, alien.

The serenity from firefly.

A shift key or similar size key that looks like a keyboard

A tank shaped cap.

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« Reply #12 on: Wed, 01 August 2012, 14:39:27 »
Cylon shaped cap would be sweet
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« Reply #13 on: Wed, 01 August 2012, 14:43:59 »
I want square key caps instead of beveled ones so I can easily press two or three keys at once.
 
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« Reply #14 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 04:00:29 »
I just looked up Han Solo's face  while he was frozen. It's not as appealing without the rest of the body pokin out. Kinda creepy haha. Would be cool though. I like the keyboard shift key the most. Mini poker on the right shift!

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« Reply #15 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 23:08:56 »
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« Reply #16 on: Mon, 06 August 2012, 07:38:43 »
someone mentioned TMNT in another thread.  I think 3d keys like that, with each turtles respective colored bandana would be awesome
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« Reply #17 on: Fri, 21 December 2012, 10:00:04 »
Here's some ideas:

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« Reply #19 on: Fri, 21 December 2012, 12:45:53 »
I want square key caps instead of beveled ones so I can easily press two or three keys at once.
 
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why would you want to do that?

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« Reply #20 on: Fri, 21 December 2012, 16:40:26 »
I just looked up Han Solo's face  while he was frozen. It's not as appealing without the rest of the body pokin out. Kinda creepy haha. Would be cool though.

Why not the Enter key for a tenkey? Or the regular Enter/return key on an ISO layout for the Europeans or whoever else uses that kind of layout?
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« Reply #21 on: Fri, 21 December 2012, 16:44:18 »
CTHULHU*!!!

Seconded.  Might be hard to mold a super detailed image, but something like this could be cool?

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« Reply #22 on: Wed, 02 January 2013, 03:42:00 »
CTHULHU*!!!

Why vote for a lesser evil?

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« Reply #23 on: Wed, 02 January 2013, 10:13:26 »
Zoidberg.
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« Reply #24 on: Wed, 02 January 2013, 21:37:19 »
I just looked up Han Solo's face  while he was frozen. It's not as appealing without the rest of the body pokin out. Kinda creepy haha. Would be cool though.

Why not the Enter key for a tenkey? Or the regular Enter/return key on an ISO layout for the Europeans or whoever else uses that kind of layout?
My thoughts exactly. KP_ENTER, or KP_PLUS would be awesome for that. I'd probably have to go in for one or two if that happens.

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« Reply #25 on: Thu, 03 January 2013, 06:14:41 »
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« Reply #26 on: Thu, 03 January 2013, 09:24:34 »
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« Reply #27 on: Thu, 03 January 2013, 10:06:02 »
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Zoidberg of disapproval is niceeeee

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« Reply #28 on: Thu, 03 January 2013, 14:12:56 »
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Zoidberg of disapproval is niceeeee

When is your cake shop opening again btw, we need more custom cakes!

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