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Offline raphdu57

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Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« on: Thu, 28 November 2013, 00:10:12 »
Hey Imsto,

Would it be possible to manufacture alu blocks like the Kmac Happy has (see here for reference) matching the colours of your last alu case GB ?

That would be awesome and I'm sure a lot of people who bought hammer's case would love to get their hands on these !
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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 07 December 2013, 10:05:32 »
Any answer? Or is it simply impossible?
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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 11 December 2013, 07:32:21 »
it's ok to make it, do you have any more suggestions about it?
is that to make it more like hhkb or to take place of the win keys?
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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 11 December 2013, 07:33:30 »
hhkb! or both ... ;)

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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 11 December 2013, 07:41:07 »
about the color, it's not easy to make it to be  exact the same as before.
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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 11 December 2013, 11:48:04 »
it's ok to make it, do you have any more suggestions about it?
is that to make it more like hhkb or to take place of the win keys?

about the color, it's not easy to make it to be  exact the same as before.

Well, i'm looking for a hhkb style, but I'm sure some people would be happy if you could do both.
As for the color, I don't really mind if that's a little offset, as long as it's pretty close !
Now for other suggestions, I see a few possibilities of how it could be made, but I don't know which one are plausible :
  • Use some kind of switch lockers as shown here (see here for reference)
    And then make alu blocks of 1.5u size with a cherry MX stem.  I don't know if that's possible and how hard it would be to do, but it would be the best imo.
  • Make alu blocks and put under/inside a magnet, in order to fix it on the plate (assuming the plate isn't aluminium). However it may cause problem with the pcb (well, I don't know anything about electronics, so I have no clue if it is an issue)
  • Make a simple alu block of the right dimension that people would just put of the plate, no fixation at all. This seems to me the simplest solution, but it would be wobbly...

Maybe someone else has another interesting input to share !
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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 12 December 2013, 07:51:02 »
it's ok to make it, do you have any more suggestions about it?
is that to make it more like hhkb or to take place of the win keys?

about the color, it's not easy to make it to be  exact the same as before.

Well, i'm looking for a hhkb style, but I'm sure some people would be happy if you could do both.
As for the color, I don't really mind if that's a little offset, as long as it's pretty close !
Now for other suggestions, I see a few possibilities of how it could be made, but I don't know which one are plausible :
  • Use some kind of switch lockers as shown here (see here for reference)
    And then make alu blocks of 1.5u size with a cherry MX stem.  I don't know if that's possible and how hard it would be to do, but it would be the best imo.
  • Make alu blocks and put under/inside a magnet, in order to fix it on the plate (assuming the plate isn't aluminium). However it may cause problem with the pcb (well, I don't know anything about electronics, so I have no clue if it is an issue)
  • Make a simple alu block of the right dimension that people would just put of the plate, no fixation at all. This seems to me the simplest solution, but it would be wobbly...

Maybe someone else has another interesting input to share !

I can not open the link you game, but I think it's easy to imaging and I do also have some ideas about it... maybe it will be possiable.
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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 12 December 2013, 07:51:28 »
maybe make the blocks to all be silver will be better.
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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 12 December 2013, 08:04:45 »
Or having a variety of colors to choose from might be a nice option.

Also, if you made the set just like the one that comes with the KMAC 2, you could have:

2 - 1.5x blocks
2 - 1x blocks
2 - 1.25x blocks

This would allow anyone to pick them up as they saw fit, for whatever keyboard they wanted to use them on (I think the presence of a plate is required to hold the blocks in place properly, and to not make contact with the PCB).

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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #9 on: Sun, 22 December 2013, 09:38:45 »
yes correct.
should make a nice design to connect them together.
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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #10 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 11:27:15 »
Any update on these ?
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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 17 July 2014, 05:03:48 »
sorry, no update yet.
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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #12 on: Thu, 17 July 2014, 13:48:03 »
sorry, no update yet.

I know matching would be difficult, but I would insta-buy several in Titanium and Black if you ever release them.

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Re: Kmac happy-like blocks for hammer case
« Reply #13 on: Fri, 18 July 2014, 03:36:31 »
I hope these get made. I might buy some as well.

My red Kmac 1.2 came with came with matching blockers.  I plan to use them with Imsto's R2 60% case (when I get my stuff from GH60 gb , whenever that might be :-X).  The color is a bit darker than the case but it matches pretty well and doesn't detract from the overall look.