Big update!
The group buy is scheduled to launch in Kono Store at late September or early October. The exact day will be decided a few days ahead, so I will update when we have a specific date. If you want to get update, you could join the waitlist on the corresponding product webpage in Kono Store:
linkAll the feedbacks have been taken in so far, although not every request is fulfilled. Currently we have locked the revision of kits as you could see below. There are a lot of changes since last update:
1. I created a new kit Cadet for Space-Cadet keyboard special legends, and revised the legends of Modifiers kit, NordeUK kit, etc. to reflect this change.
2. I added support to other Ortholinear keyboards, e.g. Preonic and renamed Planck kit to Ortho kit
3. I added more keys to support more keyboards, e.g. added R2 2u BACKSPACE for Pearl, added 3u spacebar for Minila, etc.
4. I revised the profile and layout for Choices kit, so now it could form a 2*2 cluster of hands and a straight column of roman I, II, III, IV for 65% keybards
5. I fine-tuned the vectors of Alphas, Choices, Novelties kits
6. I changed the Novelties enter-key lengend from Symbolics to Symbiosis, since guys in Symbolics company don't like it that way.
7. I changed the color codes from RAC, YCF to RA, YBP. Looking at the color cards from SP, the later ones have deeper colors, closer to what I have in mind and look better for novelties keys since they are brighter.
8. I added the missing R2 Z key for NorDeUK kit, Thanks to hansichen
9. Thanks to Thesiscamper. Now we have nice renders!
Here are all the kits for the coming GB. I will update them in the first post of this thread. And
here are the renders. Besides Kono Store, we will have other vendors to proxy orders for different areas:
Zfrontier for China and Asia, and
Mykeyboard for EU. Currently Kono Store is working on the prices. More renders are coming.
Please let me know if you have any question or feedback. It's a long way since the start of this IC and now we are finally one step away from the GB. I need to thank a lot of people during this journey(in alphabetic order): Laobao(KP), Oblotzky, packman86, Wei(KBDfans), York Chan and everyone gave his/her support or feedback for this project from GH, DT or anywhere. Special thanks to Andy(&y), astro, Hoq, lanyusea, prod and a lot of members in Chinese keyboard community. A big thanks to xblackdog for his permission and all his support.
Enjoy the renders: