I honestly still come back to this thread from time to time to see if there's an update. This board honestly ticks so many boxes for me

Hey so, it's been a while.

After I got my initial prototype I decided to spend some time daily driving it to see if I could identify any issues, so far, nothing wrong, I'm very much liking this with boba u4 silents.

However, there have also been huge issues with getting aluminium and brass stock, not so much here, but for Salvun, who I decided to get the second round of prototypes from, partially because I was having immense difficulty getting good anodisation in Australia (This seems to have been resolved in the meantime but needs further testing, at present I'm waiting until I have all salvun units in hand (Full brass, Full Blue, Black Top, Dark Grey, Gold Base, Gold/Blue/Red/Black 4.5mm alu plates, 2x brass plates remaining)

As of a couple of days ago I got my first Salvun made prototypes for the board and I've got to say I'm very happy with the quality of these, right now I'm just waiting on final production sample PCBs to come in, the parts for these are already at the assembler and I should have those within a week or two.

Regardless, here's the update, here's the pictures
https://imgur.com/a/8mLecu6

that Kangaroo 108 Southpaw is an absolute beauty.

I love this so much and I'd be chomping at the bit to get one if I didn't already have a similar keyboard

Can't wait to see how this goes further and how ugly expensive the full brass will be

very cool, we need more custom full sizes, and i love a good southpaw, ill be watching for this one closely, i'd love to put all of handarbeit on it if that ever comes in lmao. GLWIC!

What are the chances of getting a 40% made called The Joey?

Or perhaps a TKL - "The Wallaby"

Second prototype has an issue with the plate, specifically with durock stabs they fit tighter than I'm comfortable with, some changes are being made to accomodate the wider stabs and ensure that they fit easily.

Is this for v2 stabs? Seems to be a common issue lately, glad you're on top of it

this using those ae feet? nice. it would be an added bonus if this was made down under. but yeah looking goods

Damn Jono, just peeped the gallery - this is a thing of beauty.

Good luck with the next round of protos!

Hi, is there a discord server to follow up the process? Very interested👀👀👀👀

Updates are in the Kangaroo channel on the Keyboard Treehouse server at the moment, but there are no updates as the second round of prototypes is currently delayed.

Hey it's been a hot minute since I updated this, in fact it's been so long there's a red notice at the top telling me I might want to start another topic.

Regardless, I've now got my hands on the rest of the second round of prototypes, including a full brass boards, here's some shots of the Brass Boy, currently out for build and review with a mate.

The piece fitment etc is pretty much 100% in place at this point and there's only two things holding up the unlimited group buy

1. Finalising manufacture, I'm looking at some new places and getting samples made to ensure that these are turned around fast when they're made
2. I've got about 3-5000 controllers on order with various suppliers and have had them on order for the last two years, the chip shortage is real, currently looking at potentially doing a revision to use the RP2040 but that has it's own issues (I do have 1500 of those on hand)

Here's the album with the pictures
https://imgur.com/a/Cfxa7L2

this is actually a really cool idea, i used a anne pro 2 for like 2 years straight without swapping to anything else and i got so used to using my left hand for arrow keys (fn + wasd) that it's impossible for me to use arrow keys on the right of the board anymore. haven't tried a southpaw numpad yet but looks like an interesting design

Thanks for the update. This board looks amazing.

Is the last pic in the latest set showing a right-handed version?

There will be a right hand version eventually. However the left hand version needs to go out, I've stopped working on other projects heavily until this has shipped.

Also thanks Mendez for doing a build vid, that's been linked in the description.

FYI, preorder on Keyboard Treehouse soon?

This was posted on their discord earlier today

For reference Keyboard Treehouse: https://keyboardtreehouse.com/products/ae-x-impulse-boards-kangaroo

I'm interested too, been using DSI ISO version since 2012. But this is too expensive XD