Hello everyone,
First of all, quick introduction, I’m nask, a French guy living in South of France who has been into mechanical keyboard community for a long time now.
I don't know if you heard about this keyboard, the
Monoflex, a fairly cheap good looking simple 60%.
Original Geek Hack Monoflex TopicIt was originally organized by SantiGo and ... ended into a scam. (GB was in Jan'21-Feb'21, keyboards should have been shipped in July'21)
I'll make it simple : Let me introduce the
Re:Monoflex.
I've been working on the salvage of this group-buy since November 2021. I joined the Lyra & Monoflex Discord (not the Santigo's one) moderator team at that time.
A bit of a context, I was a customer of the Monoflex original group buy scam. There was a lot of French people who got into that group buy, SantiGo even joined many times the French Discord (MKBDFR) so we really felt betrayed when this group buy turned into a scam.
I wanted to know if I could find a way to get those boards.
We (the whole moderator team) have been trying to do some things all together and then I asked for permission to get all-in myself with Moderator and Original Monoflex team support.
The whole Moderator Team is aware of all the progress and I get to share every update or progress.
I managed to buy those boards from Ukraine (140), the Ukrainian factory had never been paid by Santigo.
Boards were not completely done, but managed to get it completely done and managed to get a "Made in UA" (Ukraine) inside.
Then got new PCB (200) produced, thanks to ILWrites (he also had never been paid by Santigo).
As all files have been published on GitHub, we just removed the Santigo name on the PCB, added the Open Source Hardware logo and the group I've been working with (Le Volcan).
Got new plates made in China (POM White/Black, and few half plate) merging ANSI and ISO files so that I can offer an universal one for everyone.
As all boards were RAW, like straight out of the CNC machine, I worked with a a really good Cerakote shop in France (Blackout-Factory
Link here).
There are 80 Cerakoted units and 60 units raw.
It took a lot of time as there were a lot of issues with Cerakote, I couldn't do everything I wanted but ...
Everything is
in stock:
– Cobalt (40 units) (main color)
– Dark Cherry (10 units) (my favorite one)
– Midnight Bronze (5 units)
– Tungsten (5 units)
– Copper (5 units)
– Blue Titanium (5 units)
– Charcoal Green (5 units)
– Crimson Red (5 units)
Prices:
205€ RAW unit
245€ Cerakote unit
It includes:
- Keyboard (top/bottom)
- Plate of your choice
- Screws (4x for DB, 6x for case)
- PCB with DB
- 4x Feet
I couldn't post earlier on Geek-Hack and I already have shared news / IC and "GB" on the Lyra & Monoflex Discord.
OG Participants had 2 weeks priority over Non-OG participants.
I also wanted to mention to all those people who got scammed by SantiGo, if they're still interested in one of those, I will try to find a solution with the current stock.
Link to the Google Form - SaleIf you are looking for more information
[Link to the Notion][Link to Imgur Album][Link to the Lyra & Monoflex Discord]Interest Check on 14/11/23 : Needed to evaluate how many people were still interested for that board...
Sale Form 01/02/24 : 2 weeks grace period for OG participants and now it's completely open, no longer priority.
Everything is in-stock, I will process OG participants orders first, and then non-og participants.
I will probably update the current stock in few days so that people can already know the current stock.
I'm available on Discord if you have any questions.
