any update on this limited run of b-stock?
Unfortunately I'm running into a lot of issues with my 3D printer as of late, and am still trying to get that resolved. It's a combination of colder winter temperatures (my printer usually lives in my basement) causing print quality issues and a lot of failed prints, and a lot of headaches with the BL-Touch bed leveling sensor I installed in December (which is giving me a lot of bed crashes and resulting print failures). So unfortunately no dates yet unfortunately, as I'm still working on getting that resolved. Sorry for things moving slowly. I do still intend to run a GB with the full 3D printed case in the near future.
Since getting the 3D printing back up to par is taking a while,
if anyone owns or has access to a 3D printer, are willing to print their own case, and wants to purchase a B-stock barebones kit (PCB, FR4 plate, FR4 panels, feet, screws and other hardware, and rotary encoder, but no knob) for $80 + shipping, please send me a PM. I have around ~20 keebs worth of PCBs, plates, FR4 panels, and hardware. STL files and a STEP assembly file are available on Github
here, with some instructions on printing in the manual here
here. The microcontroller, USB-C port, and a couple of small parts on the PCB have been hand-soldered due to JLCPCB's limitations. Each PCB is fully tested. I also don't have any knobs on-hand at the moment, but it's fairly easily to find STL files of knobs online to 3D print, or you can buy a nice metal knob such as
these guitar knobs or
this knurled aluminum one.
The PCBs for the above batch are green as JLCPCB at the time only offered green PCBs for PCBs with components soldered on. The plate and all other FR4 pieces are matte black.
I have working QMK firmware for it with all the features I intended implemented (layers, layer indicator LED, and encoder), but
I'm still waiting on the pull request to the QMK repo to get approved. QMK Configurator won't work until the pull request gets approved, so you'll have to compile firmware files manually through command line and editing keymap files at this time.
Future boards won't have green PCBs - I got a quote from Elecrow for fully-assembled PCBs with white solder mask and it's quite a bit lower than expected, so I'm planning on running future boards through them.
For the metal version - I'm working things out with an American machine shop and a vendor to run that board. Will have some updates on that soon.