Maybe a layered cap with two different metals?Well, my attempts at doubleshot metal have been a bit unreliable. I do have an idea for how to improve that process though. Instead of shooting liquid onto a solid, I could place two solids on each other and braze them together.
Looks really nice :thumb:
Maybe a layered cap with two different metals?Well, my attempts at doubleshot metal have been a bit unreliable. I do have an idea for how to improve that process though. Instead of shooting liquid onto a solid, I could place two solids on each other and braze them together.
I think I have worked out blackened patina and will check heat patina.
Edit: Heat patina and to blacken seems quite easy. Heat patina looks quite neat as it changes colour a bit depending on the angle at which you view it and the angle of the lights.
That is some really nice looking stuff... but personally I would not use many of them. I wouldn't ever put any caps on keyboard that don't have a more or less normal cylindrical top on them. While others look cool, as a 60% user there is not any key like scroll lock for me where they can sit as a decoration without ever really needing to touch them. I don't like keys that are all lumpy/pokey in my finger. More like zip it, world wide web and cracked would be good. Plain Cherry blank keys would be of much interest to me of course, a small selection like WASD and Esc replacement probably sufficient for me.Yes, it is always a tradeoff with more elaborate designs. I made a decision on how bumped to make the faces for instance. They are not like a sphere but rather a face which is flat and embossed on the top. Designs like the Castle is way over the top and fairly unusable as a key. The chess set has not been modeled but there is the choice to make a large model, or just emboss it on the top which would be far less intrusive.
If you could make doubleshot like hammer and sickle in Cherry I would definitely take that. Or just in relief/or very very slight raised would also be OK.
I've also had for awhile idea of making something that is very low, top only without sides and the switch stem would come through being visible on the top and be exactly flush with the key top surface.Could you elaborate that idea a bit? I don't think I got it. it made me think of these steam-punk-looking keys
For those a whole set though... but to make it easier maybe have it all be home row like and just have all the needed sizes.The advantage of this is that it is easy to make several different varieties.
Spinning blades on top of a keycaps :D
You could probably glue a sticker on the top, or emboss the legend and you would end up with something quite steampunk looking.That looks fantastic... almost exactly like I imagined it in my head.Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/wvL91uM.jpg)
You could probably glue a sticker on the top, or emboss the legend and you would end up with something quite steampunk looking.Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/wvL91uM.jpg)
New favourite:Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/77coZsB.jpg)
I think a La Liberté éclairant le monde (statue of liberty) keycap would be excellent.Added to the list.
Caps that have spaces/gaps/holes in them - especially with LEDs.
Was that your idea?
How about the hat from harry potter?Show Image(http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/anton-gerasimenko/harry-potter/icons-390.jpg)
How about the hat from harry potter?Show Image(http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/anton-gerasimenko/harry-potter/icons-390.jpg)
Could you sketch how you want it to be placed? because of the larger flat base, I can't enlarge it to make it into a cap, so it will sort of have to be placed on top of a regular one, which will make it quite small and pointy.
Maybe a layered cap with two different metals?Well, my attempts at doubleshot metal have been a bit unreliable. I do have an idea for how to improve that process though. Instead of shooting liquid onto a solid, I could place two solids on each other and braze them together.
I think I have worked out blackened patina and will check heat patina.
Edit: Heat patina and to blacken seems quite easy. Heat patina looks quite neat as it changes colour a bit depending on the angle at which you view it and the angle of the lights.
Ha that's actually a really cool idea. I never thought of that...
What about heat treatments? I wonder if annealing or quenching a cap would yield a cool result.
Here my idea:Interesting. The cap sides aren't that slanted though, so the pyramid will be very tall unless I stray away from the regular key cap shapes. Or place the pyramid on top. Or simply place the eye logo on the top surface. Lots of possibilities at least.
The Eye of Providence.
Illuminati style.
Since keycaps have a (almost) trapezial prism form, it would be cool to add a layer of transparent plastic on a flat key and add a pyramid with the Eye of providence on top. The backlight could be used to make the eye or the pyramide or just the space in between glowing.
Of couse that would be a bottom that you better not hit to hard. Au. :D
And since you have some memes: Here is one... d i c k butt.Also a possibility, although not personally as(s) interested in making it though. :cool:
Other ideas:Something like this? (http://techkeys.us/collections/artisan/products/molar-key)
A Tooth (simple, heh?)
Heroes of the storm logo. (I like the HolyOOPS Dota key, but recently enjoy HotS pretty much.) Other Logos could be GoT related (eg. Stark wolf)I am a bit hesitant to use copyrighted materials, at least straight copies. I have sort of walked the edge there and it would probably be safest to just avoid trademarked stuff entirely. I honestly don't know how much one has to change it in order for it to not infringe.
Pacman Ghosts.
Ghostbuster Sign.
Custom Fingerprint structure.Already done, although there are no pics it is listed in OP. I used my own fingerprint for fun, but sort of regretted it later when it came to posting my own fingerprint publicly on the interwebs. Should use some free stock image of a fingerprint instead.
You could probably glue a sticker on the top, or emboss the legend and you would end up with something quite steampunk looking.Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/wvL91uM.jpg)
Here my idea:Interesting. The cap sides aren't that slanted though, so the pyramid will be very tall unless I stray away from the regular key cap shapes. Or place the pyramid on top. Or simply place the eye logo on the top surface. Lots of possibilities at least.
The Eye of Providence.
Illuminati style.
Since keycaps have a (almost) trapezial prism form, it would be cool to add a layer of transparent plastic on a flat key and add a pyramid with the Eye of providence on top. The backlight could be used to make the eye or the pyramide or just the space in between glowing.
Of couse that would be a bottom that you better not hit to hard. Au. :D
Oh, cool. But a ugly tooth. Is it a horse tooth? I thought of a more realistic version aka human version.And since you have some memes: Here is one... d i c k butt.Also a possibility, although not personally as(s) interested in making it though. :cool:Other ideas:Something like this? (http://techkeys.us/collections/artisan/products/molar-key)
A Tooth (simple, heh?)
Heroes of the storm logo. (I like the HolyOOPS Dota key, but recently enjoy HotS pretty much.) Other Logos could be GoT related (eg. Stark wolf)I am a bit hesitant to use copyrighted materials, at least straight copies. I have sort of walked the edge there and it would probably be safest to just avoid trademarked stuff entirely. I honestly don't know how much one has to change it in order for it to not infringe.
Pacman Ghosts.
Ghostbuster Sign.
Alternatively the key could be a cube. And the pyramide is attached to the cube. The clue should be that it looks like the eye is hovering above the surface.One could probably leave a gap between the cap and the pyramid to make it float while supported only in the middle, and have a hole in the cap which lets light seep through inbetween under the pyramid. Add a hole through the pyramid to the eye and it would glow a bit as well I suppose.
The World Wide WEB has never been made for buckling spring, others have though. I have made three in total for BS. The first was essentially a failure. The second used the lower part of the split caps which exist for buckling springs and simply snapped onto it, but I don't have that many two-part caps. For the third, I gave it a stem of its own, but it caused some wear on the barrel as I had suspected.You could probably glue a sticker on the top, or emboss the legend and you would end up with something quite steampunk looking.Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/wvL91uM.jpg)
This in metal but without the + hole in the top, with the legends punched into the top of the cap with something like this (http://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/53989000?src=pla&cid=PLA-Google-PLA+-+Test&CS_003=7867724&CS_010=53989000).
That web design is wicked. Also, if you could expand some of these to buckling spring that would be great.
A Guy Fawkes would be legitI should really go through all my images one day and sort out the key cap stuff. Two random pics of two different Guy Fawkes below. White paint you say ;)
Black base with a white mask .. WANT
That would raise stability concerns at some point, wouldn't it? And takes the indirect light below the pyramide, though.Alternatively the key could be a cube. And the pyramide is attached to the cube. The clue should be that it looks like the eye is hovering above the surface.One could probably leave a gap between the cap and the pyramid to make it float while supported only in the middle, and have a hole in the cap which lets light seep through inbetween under the pyramid. Add a hole through the pyramid to the eye and it would glow a bit as well I suppose.
New favourite:Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/77coZsB.jpg)
"Cracked" and "Fingerprint" has just seen the light of day.#firstShow Image(http://i.imgur.com/uxMs2PF.jpg)Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/TdfJKsv.jpg)
The WWW keycap is perhaps the coolest concept of any I've seen, major respect.