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geekhack Marketplace => Interest Checks => Topic started by: JJS on Fri, 23 September 2022, 16:58:23
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https://www.pikatea.com/products/pikatea-macropad-gb4
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aside this being a almost carbon copy...
if the pcb is hot swap, what holds the pcb in place? wouldnt even the usb cable be able to just pull the pcb off the switches? in your renders it looks like the pcb is touching the front plate, shouldn't it be at least 3mm recessed? the rgb leds lights would leak out below and all around the switches and can the rotary encoder knob be installed so low and close to the plate?
and one more thing, why north facing switches?
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So...it's a horizontally flipped Pikatea with less keys, less options, a bulkier frame design, and a pcb that gives me even less clearance (and will probably get knocked loose at some point due to unsupported extension + hotswap) that's +/- $5 of the same price point from an unknown group vs. an established one.
Look, I'm all for market competition, but this is just plagiarism. Blatantly so, and I don't even own a pikatea so I've got no skin in this game.