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Flexible keycaps that feel organic.
Wanna try?: Orders closed
- Pending final pictures to be uploaded on January 2015
- Flexible polyurethane foam and silicone keycaps.
- Participate privately
- Soft high quality, platinum cure silicone as used in FX industry.
- MX keycap compatibility.
Original discussion: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=65981.0 (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=65981.0)
Lvl. 1: 5 people are needed for the bare basic polyurethane materials. All or nothing. Either do this or don't. Complete
Lvl. 2: 7 people will make possible to buy hard shore silicone for casting, a soft silicone and a flexible polyurethane for molding it into a one piece silicone keycap.
DECEMBER 14th UPDATE:
Ordered (arrived on 12-19-14):
- 2 kg of polyurethane foam.
- 1 kg of polyurethane hard white resin.
- 1 kg of flexible polyurethane (45 shore A).
- Dyes.
- Demolding agent.
- 1 kg of platinum cure silicone of 15-20 shore A hardness (soft like real skin, slightly translucent)
To complete the silicone boobiecaps a hard silicone is needed for the base and stem. Silicone sticks to itself, so it's possible to mix a hard silicone and a soft one, in layers. A hard silicone is fundamental for the switch connection stability. It needs to be addition (platinum) cure silicone, as condensation (tin) cure silicone don't have a long lifetime.
Preorders re-opened to finish buying the rest of materials.
DECEMBER 17th UPDATE: (http://www.nimengsafaris.com/images/trophy_icon-2.gif)Raffle time!
:eek: :eek: :eek:
Preorder surprise gift:
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I'll raffle an extra glow in the dark pink boobiecap with a little tiny trophy marking.
Once the orders are all set, I'll generate a random number on random.org correlative to preorder list.
The preorders are private by nature, so I will inform the winner via email and PM.
cow's udder keycap is also a possibility.
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Why does this image even exist ._.
With 5 people in, we just got FUNDED!!!
As a fellow geekhacker said:
god speed sir.
it was a long dark night, but i see the sun starting to rise for keyboard lovers.
i dream of a day when all my fingers can type on boobs
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DECEMBER 17th UPDATE: raffle time! :-X
Preorder surprise gift
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(http://www.dbeautyshop.com/product_images/uploaded_images/glow-in-the-dark-pink-contacts.jpg)
I'll raffle an extra glow in the dark pink boobiecap with a little tiny trophy marking.
Once the orders are set, I'll generate a random number on random.org correlative to preorder list.
The preorders are private by nature, so I will inform the winner via email and PM.
O.O
Update.
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I ... am ... speechless.
wait, so this isn't happeneing?
Who said it isn't? :eek:
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It's super happening, and in a best shape than before, but my initial timing estimates are compromised. They could still be shipping from late january onwards, and regular orders will open only after I test everything thoroughly.
After doing some tests, I wasn't confident on the abrasive and tear strength of the best and hardest silicone I could find commercially available, so I decided to make my own reinforced composite silicone rubber, that'll be more like a regular plastic in hardness.
I tested some fillers that didn't work the way I thought this week, had to see why they failed and correct that.
I had to order more materials and was talking with local chemical providers this whole week and part of the past one, to see what's feasible. They should arrive next week, but before even working with them, I've got to revise the safety equipment I have and buy some respirator filters and other things in those lines.
The polyurethane foam are easier to do. The rigid keycaps are easy piece. Full addition cure silicone pieces are the complication, but what will look the best, and have the highest durability in time.
If anybody wants to preorder, PM me, as I'm in deep red numbers because of all the expenditures, and some extra orders would come handy.
i misread the, "boring update 2" somehow and thought it didn't work out so you were just eating the cost or something. now that i read it again i'm not sure how i got that perception.