what is the expected lead time for production and shipping?
On the form where it lists the colours for aluminium, black is there, but it's not available as an option or on the photos. I'm guessing this is an error. If I want black or red then carbon fibre is my only option?
I can't remember, do the PCBs support full size spacebars?
Looking to order..
Q: How is the RGB controlled / how customisable is it?
Looking to order..
Q: How is the RGB controlled / how customisable is it?
Check out the programming thread for it:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=86635
Just submitted an order - hopefully I'm just in time.The buy is open until the 31st right? I still need to choose my Acrylic colour...
EDIT: I'm a dingus so I submitted two updated orders - the most recent one (where I call myself a 'nuisance') is the proper one.
Just submitted an order - hopefully I'm just in time.The buy is open until the 31st right? I still need to choose my Acrylic colour...
EDIT: I'm a dingus so I submitted two updated orders - the most recent one (where I call myself a 'nuisance') is the proper one.
I'll be extending the period to pay but the form itself closes the 31st.Got it. Thanks dude.
I'll be extending the period to pay but the form itself closes the 31st.
Can I confirm if my order went through correctly?
My PayPal address is
Really wanna get in on this.
You don't wanna post your email like that, should remove it and pm him!
You don't wanna post your email like that, should remove it and pm him!
Appreciate the heads up, I'm not overly cautious about my email though, that's public info easily found across too many forums and accounts all over the internet. You ever notice me posting my passwords or anything like that then you know I dun goofed. ;D ;D ;D
I'll be extending the period to pay but the form itself closes the 31st.
Hey quick question, does the carbon fiber upgrade apply to both the top plate and the bottom? Second, can I have the LEDs not added to mine, or do they come like that from the supplier?
EDIT: Also one thing I'm a bit confused about is the plate layout for HHKB. It supports split space, I'm assuming, but do I have to specify that anywhere?
I'll be extending the period to pay but the form itself closes the 31st.Got it. Thanks dude.
Any advise re: my acrylic question?
Can I confirm if my order went through correctly?
I'll PM you my paypal address if that helps. I filled out the form with my username here but when I check the form now it doesn't say response recorded or submitted, just takes me to a fresh form.
Really wanna get in on this.
I'll be extending the period to pay but the form itself closes the 31st.Got it. Thanks dude.
Any advise re: my acrylic question?
Generally the photos make the acrylic seem a bit brighter / more transparent than what you'd see IRL from underlighting on the board.
Can I confirm if my order went through correctly?
I'll PM you my paypal address if that helps. I filled out the form with my username here but when I check the form now it doesn't say response recorded or submitted, just takes me to a fresh form.
Really wanna get in on this.
I made it so the form starts fresh so that people aren't changing / editing their orders while I'm invoicing to cause confusions. In the end you'll get what's listed in the invoice (I list all the parts / colors) so if the invoice isn't what you want contact me ASAP.
Update time
Order has been submitted. Obviously this means no changes to individual orders.
:thumb:
I never got an updated invoice, so I guess I missed out on this.If there's a leftover base kit I can sell it at the group buy price. Otherwise last round 2 people sold their orders so it is always possible.
2017.3.27
Have sent the aluminum plates order to the factory. It will take about 20 days to product.
Have got the sample of the new PCB. Here is the picture:
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2017.4.2Good day Greatfirewall, can you provide w/ an update on Golbat40 rd2? Look forward to hearing from you & hope all is well.
Have buy all those small parts.
2017.3.31
Have sent the acrylic mid section list to the factory.It will take about 10 days to product and ship.
2017.3.27
Have sent the aluminum plates order to the factory. It will take about 20 days to product.
Have got the sample of the new PCB. Here is the picture:
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2017.4.22
Get the pcb
2017.4.18
The aluminum plates: on the way.
Pcb: on the way.
The acrylic mid : Get
Carbon plate: Producting and will be shipped these day.
2017.4.2
Have buy all those small parts.
2017.3.31
Have sent the acrylic mid section list to the factory.It will take about 10 days to product and ship.
2017.3.27
Have sent the aluminum plates order to the factory. It will take about 20 days to product.
Have got the sample of the new PCB. Here is the picture:
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2017.5.1Thanks for the update, I'm looking forward to my Golbats!
All have done. 顺丰（ the logistics company in China）have taken them away.
顺丰：929743784073
They will ship the package to a international logistics company.
I will update the logisitics information when they start shipping to US or Canada.
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There will be a new project with the package. Here is the link:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=85137.0
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Important update. The shipment of the boards will be delayed on my part. The change in exchange rate will cause the import taxes into canada to be much higher than planned for so I will have the parcel shipped to a family member's place in the USA where I will be visiting in July and will complete the shipping at that time. This is to avoid having 3rd parties involved or extra costs. It will however change the cost of shipping but should generally be the same for North America.
I will be shipping out the keyboards the week of the 14th of July. My flight down is booked so I'll take a day from my vacation time to do this :'(Got you, will be ready for my invoice
I'll be sending out the invoices for shipping costs in the coming weeks so that I can get the funds out in cash for when I go down (to pay the shipping) since I have a feeling PP will very annoying with regards to my ship from address being US if I try and pay from my PP account (I'll test it this week).
Please make sure to pay before the 14th because I don't want to carry more than 4 keyboards back (1 prototype for his new project + 3 complete boards for spare parts).
Thanks!
GL1TCH3D
Important update. The shipment of the boards will be delayed on my part. The change in exchange rate will cause the import taxes into canada to be much higher than planned for so I will have the parcel shipped to a family member's place in the USA where I will be visiting in July and will complete the shipping at that time. This is to avoid having 3rd parties involved or extra costs. It will however change the cost of shipping but should generally be the same for North America.
Important update. The shipment of the boards will be delayed on my part. The change in exchange rate will cause the import taxes into canada to be much higher than planned for so I will have the parcel shipped to a family member's place in the USA where I will be visiting in July and will complete the shipping at that time. This is to avoid having 3rd parties involved or extra costs. It will however change the cost of shipping but should generally be the same for North America.
Does this mean US residents will get a cheaper shipping rate than initially anticipated? ;D
Shipped all USA orders. Post office was hastling me about customs forms and I don't have a printer.
There are only a few Europe and Canadian orders so I will bring those back with me and ship them from Canada (no I wasn't ignoring your shipping quote requests).
Shipped all USA orders. Post office was hastling me about customs forms and I don't have a printer.
There are only a few Europe and Canadian orders so I will bring those back with me and ship them from Canada (no I wasn't ignoring your shipping quote requests).
Would we have seen tracking in Paypal if our order was shipped?
Woah. Mine's already here. Does this one know Fly? :))
Shipped all USA orders. Post office was hastling me about customs forms and I don't have a printer.
There are only a few Europe and Canadian orders so I will bring those back with me and ship them from Canada (no I wasn't ignoring your shipping quote requests).
Would we have seen tracking in Paypal if our order was shipped?
I wrote down all the shipping info before leaving on vacation. I suspect all the USA orders will be delivered before I get home. If you want to pm me with your zip code and invoice # I can get it from the receipt otherwise I will not be adding each one individually.
The board has been built and it feels super solid with Kailh's new box white switches. :thumb: In my layout all the keys with a blue front legend are dual role. Tap for the black text legend and hold for the blue text legend.Can you upload your firmware? Maybe someone else can test it to see if it's a firmware or board issue. Like I mentioned I have no spare pcbs at the moment since I got shorted a few...
Though I cannot seem to get a response from the right shift/period key. There was one instance where it spat out periods shortly after spamming it during testing like if it was
lagging behind and catching up but that was it. I flashed it first as a dual role key then just as a regular period key thinking that maybe I'm doing something wrong in the fn keys section in the map generator. No good. Then I swapped the switch out with another one thinking that it was a faulty one. Still not working. Other than that one spot on the board every other key works fine.
Another issue is that the SMDs lit up when I plugged the board in before building but after installing everything, I can't get them to work anymore.
Alright here's my eep file.The board has been built and it feels super solid with Kailh's new box white switches. :thumb: In my layout all the keys with a blue front legend are dual role. Tap for the black text legend and hold for the blue text legend.Can you upload your firmware? Maybe someone else can test it to see if it's a firmware or board issue. Like I mentioned I have no spare pcbs at the moment since I got shorted a few...
Though I cannot seem to get a response from the right shift/period key. There was one instance where it spat out periods shortly after spamming it during testing like if it was
lagging behind and catching up but that was it. I flashed it first as a dual role key then just as a regular period key thinking that maybe I'm doing something wrong in the fn keys section in the map generator. No good. Then I swapped the switch out with another one thinking that it was a faulty one. Still not working. Other than that one spot on the board every other key works fine.
Another issue is that the SMDs lit up when I plugged the board in before building but after installing everything, I can't get them to work anymore.
Update one PCB situation, after sitting down with it at home with a cable and a spare switch to test I have had a few other issues with the board. First of all it seems that I am unable to flash the original custom firmware I made for my R1 board to the new PCB. Not sure if this is normal or again there is a greater issue with the PCB. Also after testing a few of the switch positions it seems that the alphas and some kind of 'default' firmware is on the board, but some of the inputs, namely the spacebar positions do not register the spacebar and instead cause the LEDs to strobe like crazy as if the board is being overloaded. Also the one LED has never turned on at all and the one to the left of it is always a different color from the rest.
I'm pretty sure V1 and V2 firmwares are different. I know a user posted that the website was generating firmwares that were not working with their v1 golbat (this was after the golbat v2 was announced already). I will go fetch the instructions for flashing. Each kit should also have come with 2 spare LEDs.
I randomly checked 3 boards that I brought back (about half?) and all 3 had full functioning LEDs. As far as reprogramming them goes I haven't gotten around to that yet. I will be building my board eventually but I'm pretty much working 7 days a week for 3 weeks and don't have switches on hand.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=86635.0
Here's a thread that was made for R1 firmware flashing. As far as I'm aware the process remains the same. I will double check with GFW about changes in how to flash in case that's potentially causing some of the problems cropping up. If something really isn't working with your board or it comes damaged let me know.
I'm pretty sure V1 and V2 firmwares are different. I know a user posted that the website was generating firmwares that were not working with their v1 golbat (this was after the golbat v2 was announced already). I will go fetch the instructions for flashing. Each kit should also have come with 2 spare LEDs.
I randomly checked 3 boards that I brought back (about half?) and all 3 had full functioning LEDs. As far as reprogramming them goes I haven't gotten around to that yet. I will be building my board eventually but I'm pretty much working 7 days a week for 3 weeks and don't have switches on hand.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=86635.0
Here's a thread that was made for R1 firmware flashing. As far as I'm aware the process remains the same. I will double check with GFW about changes in how to flash in case that's potentially causing some of the problems cropping up. If something really isn't working with your board or it comes damaged let me know.
Only half of the RGB LED's worked on mine, I had to resolder them and then they worked. I did not have any extra RGB LED's either. Othen than that everything works perfect.
So far, all LEDs are good...tried programming with the guide, and afterwards, appears my 2nd row is dead...going to take another stab at it after dinner. All switches and soldering is good, so I know that isn't the problem and all other rows appear to be fine.
RGB lights are working! On the firmware generator, make sure that LED3 is set to RGB LED and the number of leds option is set to 8. After flashing is finished only the lower right corner will be on but pressing any other key mapped to the RGB functions will flip everything back on.
What about those of us that paid the full invoice for shipping?I completely forgot about you. Can you PM me again with the invoice number / email for refund?
I shipped out all the orders that were paid for as of yesterday!
I have 2 left with shipping unpaid but I think they actually messaged me at some point for a quote so I have to go find those.
I tried programming this thing again today so my son could use it, and after installing zadig drives my mouse/bluetooth devices aren't working. Anyone else experience this issue? Why is this such a PITA to program?
Edit: Rolled back the driver and got my mouse working. Of course, flashing the PCB still doesn't work. Is there any way to incorporate this keyboard into something like easykeymap tool that I use for the GH60, or using Flip to flash a .hex? I tried building firmware using http://kb.sized.io/ and then flashing the .hex with Flip (which is how I've done my handwire builds in the past) but that didn't work. Are the Rd 1 flashing instructions still recommended for Rd 2 boards?
I tried programming this thing again today so my son could use it, and after installing zadig drives my mouse/bluetooth devices aren't working. Anyone else experience this issue? Why is this such a PITA to program?
Edit: Rolled back the driver and got my mouse working. Of course, flashing the PCB still doesn't work. Is there any way to incorporate this keyboard into something like easykeymap tool that I use for the GH60, or using Flip to flash a .hex? I tried building firmware using http://kb.sized.io/ and then flashing the .hex with Flip (which is how I've done my handwire builds in the past) but that didn't work. Are the Rd 1 flashing instructions still recommended for Rd 2 boards?
Once I installed the driver using zadig (after putting the keyboard in reflash mode and selecting the atm32yadda per the instructions, did you do this? you probably replaced the wrong driver which hosed your usb/bluetooth - make sure you're replacing the driver for the keyboard bootloader (the atm32udfu device), which will only appear with the keyboard in flash mode).
I was able to use https://tkg.io/ (after installing the chrome plugin) by selecting keyboard->kimera, config->golbatv2, and pasting in maps for each layer from the keyboard layout editor (and finally setting led number 3 to 8 rgb leds per the post above).
The keyboard (in flash mode) shows up in the burn drop down and flashes directly from the browser.
I have tried everything listed in this thread and i cannot get this thing to flash a working firmware. I can never get bootloader mode to work and can only flash using Flip but again no matter what guide I use, what default firmware I try nothing works. Can anyone help or at least have a updated guide on this piece of junk, thanks.
New guide from GFW:
aw how did I miss this