[IC] Series 00 // GB on March 24!

[Cubic // esc lab]

SERIES 00

A machined metal artisan - available in aluminum, stainless steel, and brass.

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Hello everyone.

It’s loop, Cubic, and Isshin of esc lab. We're back on Geekhack to show you all what we've been up to with Series 00 since our first IC.

We learned a great deal during our first IC. So, the past four months, we've been heads down working -- going through multiple rounds of prototyping for Series 00 + the packaging, finding vendors, finalizing the logistic challenges of producing and shipping a product internationally.

Today, we feel we are ready to show you Series 00.

Thank you to everyone that contributed feedback to both esc lab and Series 00 - what you see today is a culmination of that work.

We hope you like what you see, and as always, feel free to let us know what you think.

0. CONTENTS


⠀1. ALLOYS
⠀2. PACKAGING
⠀3. DETAILS
⠀4. REVIEWS
⠀5. PRICING & VENDORS
⠀6. EASTER EGG HUNT
⠀7. TIMELINE
⠀8. TODO
⠀9. OUR COMMUNITY
10. THANK YOU
11. SIGNATURE
12. GALLERY

1. ALLOYS


Series 00 will launch in aluminum, stainless steel, and brass.

Hand Polished Brass

Due to overwhelming demand during IC1 (and I mean overwhelming), we are happy to announce that we have added Hand Polished Brass.

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Hand Polished Stainless Steel

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Sandblast Brass

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Sandblast Clear Aluminum

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Sandblast Black Aluminum

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Specifications

Name	Color	Weight	Finish	Coating
Hand Polished Brass	Gold	14.30 g	Hand polish	TBD
Hand Polished Stainless Steel	Silver	14.10 g	Hand polish	None
Sandblast Brass	Gold	14.30 g	Sandblast	TBD
Sandblast Aluminum	Silver	4.60 g	Sandblast	Anodization
Sandblast Aluminum	Black	4.60 g	Sandblast	Anodization

2. PACKAGING

Each Series 00 comes individually packaged. An included microfiber cloth will help keep your Series 00 looking spotless over time.

The Foundry Edition bundle comes with a little something extra .

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3. DETAILS

Series 00 is a familiar R1 Cherry-like profile. It looks sharp, but does not feel sharp.





Each Series 00 has the identification info, AKA Series ID, engraved into the base.
Each keycap is sequentially numbered starting at #00. Will you be lucky enough to get #01, #69, or #420?





Metal artisans fit differently on different switches due to switch stem manufacturing tolerances.
We have tested Series 00 on all the most popular switch families to ensure a good fit and logged the results of each switch.




Each polished Series 00 is individually hand-polished.

4. REVIEWS

We have shipped all five Series 00 off to reviewers so you can get an outside opinion of our artisan. We will continually update this section as we hear back.

dededecline

5. PRICING & VENDORS

Series 00 will be an unlimited GB hosted by the following US, Canada, SEA/AS, and EU vendors, with a MOQ of 250 units per Series 00.

Material	Mechs & Co. (USD)	Desk Hero (CAD)	Candy Keys (EUR)	zFrontier (USD)
Polished Brass	70	90	67	70
Polished Stainless Steel	65	83	64	65
Sandblast Brass	65	83	64	65
Sandblast Aluminum (Black + Clear)	45	58	44	45
Foundry Edition	275	353	270	275
Quattro Edition	X	X	X	X

Foundry Edition is a discounted bundle of all five Series 00 + a lil sum sum.

Quattro Edition is a discounted four-pack of a specific Series 00.

* USA and CA pricing does not include local taxes. EU pricing has VAT included.

6. EASTER EGG HUNT: ENDED ON 03/01/2021

Easter Egg Hunt is an esc lab tradition from IC1 where you try to find an "Easter Egg" hidden in our website for a chance to win a Series 00 prototype.

With the launch of this IC2, the Easter Egg Hunt is back, harder than ever, with the Sandblasted Brass (P3) up for grabs. We've given away three prototypes so far - Black Anodized Aluminum (P0), Polished Stainless Steel (P1), and Polished Brass (P2). Each giveaway proto is also sequentially engraved starting from "P0". Other than through Easter Egg Hunts, there is no other way to get a prototype. We do not sell prototypes. Ever.

The Easter Egg Hunt starts now. There are currently a number of clues spread out across our website leading to a hidden link. Find the hidden link, and you may be the lucky winner.

The Easter Egg Hunt ends on March 1st 2021.

You can join the #easter-egg-hunt channel on our Discord to work with others on the hunt. You'll probably need the help. Or maybe you can throw others off? 

Clue 0/4: If you want to find the egg, you better be at the source.

Click here to start the hunt.

7. TIMELINE

This is the timeline for Series 00 based on our manufacturing and logistics estimates.
As with all IC and GBs, there may be obstacles and delays; it's best to just assume there will be. We will do our best to both hit the estimates and be transparent with you all if there are delays. We will keep you informed with updates on our Discord and Research Facility.

8. TODO

Finalize manufacturing and packaging details.
Ship to reviewers

Expand below to see all changes made since September 2020. For complete detailed changelogs, click here.

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Completed

Assess demand for SEA, UK, CN, and OCE regions.
Lower height to 11mm to better match R1 profile.
Increase safety fillet radius to 0.4 mm.
Order multiple rounds of prototypes.
Add Polished Brass and check finish + coating quality.
Remove Polished Aluminum.
Remove 5 degree slant on top of keycap.
Redesign stem and base to fit both south & north-facing through-hole LEDs, Kaihl Box switch, and more.
Finalize Series ID engravings location.
Finalize stem dimensions and tolerances.
Finalize manufacturing + packaging vendors.
Finalize USA, CA, and EU vendor.

9. OUR COMMUNITY

Discord

Instagram

Website

Newsletter

10. THANK YOU

Without your support, this would not have been possible.

• The incredible esc lab community.
• esc lab Insiders (in no particular order) - Lumis (our mod #1), heavygrips (our mod #2 + Secret Santa 2020 organizer), mfwit (always giving me photography advice + nerding out on gear), EpicN, fr0nk (hi dad), Jeff (gj w/ gb little bro), kumori, halo, pupper, sentarius (!sent), Ravioli (tea god), Stick (mkb drama weekly newsletter), brandontan, and Sarazan97.
• Patrick, Mike, Chris, and more // Mechs & Co.
• Jerrold // Desk Hero
• David // Candy Keys
• Alex // zFrontier
• Swishy, Frosty, bobas, Nathan, Rayhhdailo, and more // Keycap Designers Discord
• Our designer friends Livid, dks, Geon, spicychickenrenders, Obzkure, and more.
• Our S/Os for listening to us ramble about esc lab everyday.

And to you reading this - thank you for helping us turn this dream into reality.

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Designed with 爱 in HK + USA by Cubic, Isshin, and loop.

[Cubic // esc lab]

GALLERY

Series 00 would not be the same without our friends in the community. We want to use this opportunity to showcase the best of what the community offers.


ROTR Macro Pad by Polarity Works

Rendered by Isshin

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P.03 by Protozoa Studio

Rendered by Spicychickenrenders (Sailer)

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BOX75 by Lin Design Studio

Rendered by dks





F1-8X by Geonworks

Rendered by Isshin

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Mode 80 by Mode Keyboards

Rendered by Isshin

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IRON165 by Smith + Rune

Rendered by Isshin

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Abstraction by loop

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Typography by Grace Hong

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[frostykoala]

cant wait to get my hands on this

[Nathan_]

YES FINALLY, GLWIC!

[mfwit]

Give me Foundry Edition. kthx

[MIGHTY CHICKEN]

Clean and sexy

[r00dy]

I like it, I might be in for a full function row

[halocantkb]

thank you for coming back, improving and not giving up

[sGhost]

Happy to see this reaching gb soon, will definetely join.

[ectoplasmatic]

 
amazing as always. Here for Series 00.

[LittleAad]

Most beautiful thing ever

[CoolMike]

Really excited for the esc lab team.

The work that has been put in is remarkable by these guys.

[Afresh]

started from "this is not real art" now we here 
glwic

[SxM Designs]

Great work loop and the team! This is a real unique creation! Love it.

[Bub]

i'm in!

[xlSantos]

This looks great! Big fan of the polish brass.  GLWIC

[Cubic // esc lab]

Thank you everyone for the warm comments so far. I will respond to each one by one when things are a little less crazy on my end

Imgur going down 20 minutes before this IC post (it was originally going to go up at 10 AM PST. It ended up being almost 11 AM PST before they went back up) definitely threw a wrench in everything.

Also - a few folks have already found Clue 1/4 for the Easter Egg Hunt.

Oh here's a little something extra for you all

[yukitoki]

shiny 

[TyPo.mk]

It’s been awesome watching this develop, that stainless is going to look so good on my thermal

[EpicN]

I'm in

[bert039]

Love these! Quality looks amazing, can't want to get a set of these too.

[dingusxmcgee]

Looks neat. Might be in for 1

[sentarius102]

It looks fantastic. I'm definitely in for a foundry edition!

[Izeri]

Those look amazing!

[Cubic // esc lab]

cant wait to get my hands on this

Thank you for the kind (and first) comment!

YES FINALLY, GLWIC!

:peepohug: :peepolove: Thanks Nathan. Love seeing your success with Iceberg!!!! And that artisan by Asero is dooope.

Give me Foundry Edition. kthx

gib leica pl0x. Thanks for all the awesome nerdy photography conversations and making me buy more gear. Thanks a lot.


Jk. Can't wait to see the photos you get out of em.

Clean and sexy

no u!

I like it, I might be in for a full function row

Wow - thank you so much!

Thank you!

thank you for coming back, improving and not giving up

I really appreciate this comment I wouldn't trade the IC1 experience for anything. I truly learned a lot. I hope I was able to show what I learned in this through this IC !

Happy to see this reaching gb soon, will definetely join.

Hello render God. Thank you.

amazing as always. Here for Series 00.

ecto <3!!! So happy to see your squad's board on here. Thank you.

Most beautiful thing ever
 

Wow Thank you

Really excited for the esc lab team.

The work that has been put in is remarkable by these guys.

I can say the exact same for you, Patrick, Chris, savage, and more. Really happy we found you guys and we get to work together. The stuff you guys taught Cubic and I have been indispensable. Designers are lucky to have Mechs & Co. as their vendor

started from "this is not real art" now we here 



glwic

still CNC'd by 5 Y/Os tbh 

Great work loop and the team! This is a real unique creation! Love it.

Thank you man! I appreciate it

i'm in!
 

   Thank you!

This looks great! Big fan of the polish brass.  GLWIC
 

We couldn't not do it after literally 1/3rd of our IC1 responses were -- "gib polish brazz"

shiny 

 

It’s been awesome watching this develop, that stainless is going to look so good on my thermal

Thank you for following along And I'm happy you enjoyed the process! ooo I can't wait to see it on your board! The Thermal looks sliiiiiiiiiick.

I'm in

Thank you Mister OG Insider

Love these! Quality looks amazing, can't want to get a set of these too.

Thank you bert!

Looks neat. Might be in for 1

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The Paw is gonna get a metal claw  :-*

It looks fantastic. I'm definitely in for a foundry edition!

!sent


Thanks for proofreading this post like a million times. Appreciate you being with us since the beginning. Hell, you joined our server before my loop account even did kekw.

Those look amazing!

Thank you!         

[Reebes]

Looks super sweet! Might have to pick one up from DH

[Skok]

you say these are metal but I only see options for aluminum, steel, and brass?

[DALExSNAIL]

you say these are metal but I only see options for aluminum, steel, and brass?

What sort of dad joke is this

[Skok]

you say these are metal but I only see options for aluminum, steel, and brass?

What sort of dad joke is this

comes with the territory

[DALExSNAIL]

OP do you still think the community is stupid because people buy "resin sculpted by a 5 year old" for large amounts of money?

[Cubic // esc lab]

OP do you still think the community is stupid because people buy "resin sculpted by a 5 year old" for large amounts of money?

I'll fill people in on what OP means by this.

For full transparency, this is what DALE is talking about. I blocked out my own name for privacy reasons, I think I am okay with not get death threats again: https://i.imgur.com/zAE0OEZ.jpg

In August, when I first got serious into the hobby, I didn't know better. I saw hand sculpted artisans posted onto Reddit selling for hundreds of dollars, some hitting a thousand+. I thought these were prices defined by the makers themselves, not knowing that was the aftermarket. I shot a tweet off criticizing it.


Now that I have spent the past months learning about the community, getting into artisans + custom keebs (hell, I own a F1-8X bought in the aftermarket lol, and I'm looking to get a 40% + 65% to complete my collection), both metal + hand-sculpted myself, I know that is not the case.


The comments I made were ignorant and ones I regret.


The criticism the community has on what I said is completely fair, and I don't want people to stop giving me feedback on how to improve.


Thank you for bringing this up!

[DALExSNAIL]

OP do you still think the community is stupid because people buy "resin sculpted by a 5 year old" for large amounts of money?

I'll fill people in on what OP means by this.


In August, when I first got serious into the hobby, I didn't know better. I saw hand sculpted artisans posted onto Reddit selling for hundreds of dollars, some hitting a thousand+. I thought these were prices defined by the makers themselves, not knowing that was the aftermarket. I shot a tweet off criticizing it.


Now that I have spent the past months learning about the community, getting into artisans + custom keebs, both metal + hand-sculpted myself, I know that is not the case.


The comments I made were ignorant and ones I regret.


The criticism the community has on what I said is completely fair, and I don't want people to stop giving me feedback on how to improve.


Thank you for bringing this up!

Fair response, and I truly hope you mean it.

[Cubic // esc lab]

OP do you still think the community is stupid because people buy "resin sculpted by a 5 year old" for large amounts of money?

I'll fill people in on what OP means by this.


In August, when I first got serious into the hobby, I didn't know better. I saw hand sculpted artisans posted onto Reddit selling for hundreds of dollars, some hitting a thousand+. I thought these were prices defined by the makers themselves, not knowing that was the aftermarket. I shot a tweet off criticizing it.


Now that I have spent the past months learning about the community, getting into artisans + custom keebs, both metal + hand-sculpted myself, I know that is not the case.


The comments I made were ignorant and ones I regret.


The criticism the community has on what I said is completely fair, and I don't want people to stop giving me feedback on how to improve.


Thank you for bringing this up!

Fair response, and I truly hope you mean it.

Words are weak, so I won't say any more. I'll just aim to be a helpful and friendly community member instead. I'm in this hobby for the long haul.

[Extra Fox]

I got started into this hobby thinking how ridiculous it all was. What was wrong with my Logitech membrane keyboard, it worked?
5 mechanical keyboards, 4 macro-pads, and more on the way later...
We all say stuff we regret.

Question: I signed up on the IC form a while back, do you still have all that info or do I need to sign up again?

[Cubic // esc lab]

I got started into this hobby thinking how ridiculous it all was. What was wrong with my Logitech membrane keyboard it works.
5 keyboards, 4 macro-pads, and more on the way later...
We all say stuff we regret.

Question: I signed up on the IC form a while back, do you still have all that info or do I need to sign up again?

You are good if you filled it already! Thank you for being an early supporter 

[Cubic // esc lab]

you say these are metal but I only see options for aluminum, steel, and brass?

Skok.

[Cubic // esc lab]

you say these are metal but I only see options for aluminum, steel, and brass?

What sort of dad joke is this

He can't be FARTHER away from a dad.

[HungHingDaiLo]

Decent images, they definitely have certain attraction and hopefully the final results are as amazing!
GLWIC & GB, loop!

[yh]

OP do you still think the community is stupid because people buy "resin sculpted by a 5 year old" for large amounts of money?

I'll fill people in on what OP means by this.

For full transparency, this is what DALE is talking about. I blocked out my own name for privacy reasons, I think I am okay with not get death threats again: https://i.imgur.com/zAE0OEZ.jpg

In August, when I first got serious into the hobby, I didn't know better. I saw hand sculpted artisans posted onto Reddit selling for hundreds of dollars, some hitting a thousand+. I thought these were prices defined by the makers themselves, not knowing that was the aftermarket. I shot a tweet off criticizing it.


Now that I have spent the past months learning about the community, getting into artisans + custom keebs (hell, I own a F1-8X bought in the aftermarket lol, and I'm looking to get a 40% + 65% to complete my collection), both metal + hand-sculpted myself, I know that is not the case.


The comments I made were ignorant and ones I regret.


The criticism the community has on what I said is completely fair, and I don't want people to stop giving me feedback on how to improve.


Thank you for bringing this up!

Respect! Very professionally handled loop! though I won't be joining this one, I might just if the right colourway pops up in future runs. (hint hont wink wonk pink purple blue etc pastels maybe?)

[Cubic // esc lab]

Decent images, they definitely have certain attraction and hopefully the final results are as amazing!
GLWIC & GB, loop!

Thank you Mister Maestro Dai Lo

[Cubic // esc lab]

OP do you still think the community is stupid because people buy "resin sculpted by a 5 year old" for large amounts of money?

I'll fill people in on what OP means by this.

For full transparency, this is what DALE is talking about. I blocked out my own name for privacy reasons, I think I am okay with not get death threats again: https://i.imgur.com/zAE0OEZ.jpg

In August, when I first got serious into the hobby, I didn't know better. I saw hand sculpted artisans posted onto Reddit selling for hundreds of dollars, some hitting a thousand+. I thought these were prices defined by the makers themselves, not knowing that was the aftermarket. I shot a tweet off criticizing it.


Now that I have spent the past months learning about the community, getting into artisans + custom keebs (hell, I own a F1-8X bought in the aftermarket lol, and I'm looking to get a 40% + 65% to complete my collection), both metal + hand-sculpted myself, I know that is not the case.


The comments I made were ignorant and ones I regret.


The criticism the community has on what I said is completely fair, and I don't want people to stop giving me feedback on how to improve.


Thank you for bringing this up!

Respect! Very professionally handled loop! though I won't be joining this one, I might just if the right colourway pops up in future runs. (hint hont wink wonk pink purple blue etc pastels maybe?)

All I can say about your last line is 

[CookieFlow]

Looks very pretty.

Are the hand polished brass and stainless steel fingerprint magnets? If so, could some coating be applied to help with that?

Would love to see a copper version next.

[Cubic // esc lab]

Looks very pretty.

Are the hand polished brass and stainless steel fingerprint magnets? If so, could some coating be applied to help with that?

Would love to see a copper version next.

Hey Cookie!

I'll be honest, like all polished metals, they are prone to finger prints. Unfortunately this isn't even a problem like Samsung and Apple can solve, even with oleophobic coatings.

We are providing an included microfiber cloth for all Series 00 packaging so you can admire your keycap while clacking away.

As for me? I leave it. I think fingerprints are character. Haha.

[xantiema]

What is the price point of these?

[Cubic // esc lab]

What is the price point of these?

Hey there

Pricing and vendors is right here: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=111283.0#post_PRICING

[Cubic // esc lab]

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[chanceofthat]

Why 13?


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[Cubic // esc lab]

Why 13?


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I'm sorry - I don't follow. What do you mean by why 13?

[chanceofthat]

Ooop nvm


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[xantiema]

What is the binary code for?

[Cubic // esc lab]

What is the binary code for?

 

[Cubic // esc lab]

📅  Update 02/20/2021 - 72 hours in, 648 more to go! Thank you for the insane response so far!

Hello all.

Wanted to drop in to share some updates so far for Series 00's IC2 (http://gh.esclab.co if you haven't checked it out yet)

Only 72 hours in (3 days), we've had an incredible response. So much that our Typeform plan actually ran out of space a day ago and I had to upgrade.. But this is a good problem to have!

📈 Some numbers

• >490 interest check survey responses (our IC1 took 1.5 months to hit this number)
• An equal split in traffic between Reddit (/r/mkb + /r/mm), Discord, Instagram, and Geekhack
• Interest from (in this order of popularity): United States, EU/UK, Canada, Southeast Asia, and Oceania
• Series 00 interest (in this order of popularity): Polished SS, Polished Brass, Sandblast Black Aluminum, Sandblast Brass (interesting!), Sandblast Clear Aluminum
• Esc key and macro pad are the highest interest in terms of key placement
• 95 entries into our Easter Egg. Closes in 10 days.
• We have added Sandblast Clear Aluminum "P4" to the current Easter Egg as a prize. This mean there will be TWO proto winners (including Sandblast Brass "P4") for the current Easter Egg Hunt.

💬 A selection of feedback

• "Love the clean look; what I've been looking for." "Dude these look so good im willing to give up my first born for them" "Beautifully presented--I think this group buy will be the simple but elegant "oomph" that a lot of people are looking for."
• "Please have a vendor for SEA/OCE" (Working on SEA!)
• A bunch of attempts to crack our Easter Egg in the IC2 form. (Sorry it doesn't work this way, haha)
• "Titanium, gold, silver, [some exotic material], etc, please!" 🤐
• "We invite you to #degen-hours in Ringer Keys" "Come degen more in RK xD" (I joined)
• "The Easter Egg was so fun, and fortified a desire to join the gb even if I don't win the giveaway"
• Some concerns on lack of compatibility with Cherry/DSA/KAM/etc (this was an intentional design decision, sorry!)
• Requests for engraving customization (we will consider this for future smaller releases!)
• Price is cheap/fair/expensive (I suppose different people have different expectations on our pricing)

📰 Upcoming plans:

• With the demand for SEA hitting a critical point, we have begun talks with our SEA vendor to move forward. I will share more news as I get it.
• OCE still needs more demand. So if you want it in OCE, be sure to fill out the survey and invite your friends to do so.
• Review units have been shipped out to content creators. I will update the IC post as they share their thoughts.
• Prototypes have been shipped out to Easter Egg Hunt #1, Hunt #2, and ExistentiallyYours Giveaway (https://www.twitch.tv/existentiallyyours) winners - Polished SS "P1", Polished "P2", and Polished SS "P7".
• More sticker packs shipped

Thank you for the warm response so far. Working on this with Cubic + Isshin, and sharing it to the world is a dream come true for us. We made esc lab so that we can share simple, honest, and functional products, but also to be a small source of positivity and warmth to the community. Thank you again.


// loop


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[Cubic // esc lab]

📅  Update 02/22/2021 - dededecline First Look + SEA/UK Vendor Requests


We have shipped out Series 00 to the first wave of reviewers and we are super thrilled to say that dededecline (dklein on Geekhack) has shared his first look on all five Series 00.


His review: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/924901137?t=00h20m17s


Note: this is not the Foundry Edition - as the FE does not come with a $30 dollar Pelican Case haha, but does come with a lil sum sum


Thank you so much dededecline for the review brother    Please the second finger condom. This is very very important  .



A number of you have reached out to me (and also in the IC survey) requesting SEA and UK vendors. I originally thought Candy Keys was enough for EU/UK, but totally forgot about Brexit. So UK would incur some pretty heavy charges from product coming from the EU.

So, I am super aware of this and I will be putting out some feelers for specific vendors in SEA and UK.

Also, added new typographic illustrations from https://www.instagram.com/gracehong.jpg/

Check out her stuff - they're super dope.

Question to you all - do you prefer updates as new comments or within our original post?




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[Cubic // esc lab]

Hey all.

Note that there ONE day left for the Easter Egg Hunt. The hunt closes on March 1st. Rules are in the original post above.

We'll roll the two winners next week on a special livestream.

To recap, here are the prizes for Easter Egg Hunt #3

We're giving away:
"P3"-engraved Sandblast Brass prototype
"P4"-engraved Sandblast Clear Alu prototype
Winner of the spins gets a special Egg role on our Discord channel

We have almost 100 entries so far, so get your egg in before the end date (March 1st).

The prototypes we are giving out in these Easter Egg hunts are not sold and have unique prototype engravings on them. Here's the Polished Brass P2 proto that Jeff from Jlabs won: https://www.instagram.com/p/CLm66TYn-k-/

Good luck and have fun!

[Ponker]

Ponker bless.

[Cubic // esc lab]

Ponker bless.

Thank you Ponker

[Cubic // esc lab]

📅 03/05/2021 Update: AS/SEA Vendor announced + Quattro Pack


Hello everyone! I have some exciting updates as we are about 19 days away from the group buy.


New Asia and Southeast Asia vendor.

[Cubic // esc lab]

📅 03/05/2021 Update: AS/SEA/AUS vendor announcement + Quattro Pack + GB in 19 days


Hello everyone! I have some exciting updates as we are about 19 days away from the group buy.


zFrontier -- our Asia and Southeast Asia vendor

我们非常的荣幸宣布zFrontier作为我们亚洲和东南亚的代理商！


We are very honored and excited to announce that zFrontier will be the vendor for Asia and Southeast Asia region. zFrontier will be able to service everywhere from Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and more.

Additionally, zF will be able to ship to Australia at a very reasonable shipping price.

Note: zFrontier also provides free shipping to ALL regions on orders >$100 USD. This applies to our Australia friends. 

Pricing for the AS/SEA region will be announced very soon, and this completes all our vendors for the Series 00 GB.

Series 00's launch vendors are the following: Mechs & Co (USA), Desk Hero (Canada), Candy Keys (EU), and zFrontier (Asia / SEA / Oceania).

We saw that there were folks asking for a UK vendor because of Brexit, and while we also feel the pain of missing a UK vendor, since this is our first GB ever + having to manage the manufacturing logistics ourselves, we want to keep things as simple as possible so we don't mess up because we have too many vendors and complexity. I hope you understand. As esc lab grows, we'll do our best to satisfy more of you folk's requests -- thank you !


Series 00 Quattro Edition


I am happy to say that we are adding a discounted 4-pack for each Series 00, called the Quattro Edition.

What this means is - you can buy a specific Series 00 in a bundle of four, i.e. 4x Black Anodized Aluminum with a discount.

This will be great option for those that want to fill a function row island (i.e. F1-F4), macro pads, or just if you want to buy multiple Series 00. 

We decided to add this option because many of our IC2 responses asked how they could buy multiple Series 00 at once and whether they could get a discount for doing so. We are saying yes you can.

Thank you Mechs & Co (USA), Desk Hero (Canada), Candy Keys (EU), and zFrontier (Asia / SEA / Oceania) for agreeing to this, and this wraps up all our launch vendors for Series 00.


Easter Egg #3 Prototype Giveaway Spin-the-Wheel

117 people found the Easter Egg on our website over the course of two weeks.

We will be spinning the wheel to find the two winners of our Series 00 prototype giveaway on March 6th Saturday 3 PM PST.

We are giving away the following:


✅  "P3" Sandblast Brass
✅  "P4" Sandblast Clear Alu
✅  Winner of the spin(s) gets the @🥚  Egg #3 (IC2) role

To get a notification of when the event will start, join our Discord and RSVP for the event in the #research-facility channel.


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Thank you for the incredible response for Series 00 so far. Cubic, Isshin, and I have been blown away by the positive response, and I cannot wait for the group buy to go live on the 24th

loop // esc lab

[shima]

esc lab pogu

[Cubic // esc lab]

esc lab pogu

Big hugs.

[Versyl]

Can't wait until the GB

[Cubic // esc lab]

Can't wait until the GB

Same!! Can't believe it's happening. Our first GB. Both excited and slightly nervous.

[ovurcast]

If only I could afford a whole keyboard filled with this

[kight]

looking clean as hell loop! can't wait to get a few and build a new tofu slicer jk, but looking forward to GB! I love pretty pieces of metal

[yukitoki]

O.O shiny

[Cubic // esc lab]

If only I could afford a whole keyboard filled with this

I wish I could too 

looking clean as hell loop! can't wait to get a few and build a new tofu slicer jk, but looking forward to GB! I love pretty pieces of metal

Thanks kight <3 Please take a video of the tofu slicer, waiting for it 

O.O shiny

 


Can confirm is very shiny

[Cubic // esc lab]

Hello all!

I'm excited to say that our GB will be in 12 days, with the following vendors

Mechs & Co for the US
Desk Hero for Canada
Candy Keys for EU
zFrontier for China, Asia (includes SEA), and Australia

Any particular set you have in mind to buy?

Our launch will have the Foundry Edition (a set of five for all Series 00 materials, perfect for collectors), Quattro Edition (four of one material, perfect for function rows and macro pads), and the individual packs!

Thank you again for the warm responses

[Cubic // esc lab]

Hello all!


8 days until GB, I'm stoked  .


We have a few more reviews coming up including Apiary's and Tae's

[Cubic // esc lab]

Hello everyone.

My second last comment on this post before we move to the [GB] post.

36 hours or 1.5 days until GB.

I'm so stoked.

[Cubic // esc lab]

THE GROUP BUY IS LIVE: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=111915.0

[Trivent]

Loving it and will 100% get it. Shout out for all the hard work needed to make this! You guys rock 

[Cubic // esc lab]

Loving it and will 100% get it. Shout out for all the hard work needed to make this! You guys rock 

I appreciate your support!

[dingusxmcgee]

In for 1. Very catvibe.

-oops wrong thread

[Cubic // esc lab]

In for 1. Very catvibe.

dededecline will be putting the Foundry Edition on the Paw

[dingusxmcgee]

In for 1. Very catvibe.

dededecline will be putting the Foundry Edition on the Paw

I may or may not be very excited to see that