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Offline zekkin

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Hey friends,

I won't write the same thing I did in the interest check, so I'll just say this: thanks for considering Ogre!  :thumb:

IC Thread: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=106469.0

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RAFFLE CLOSED

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Ogre







Renders by DALExSNAIL.

Please note that renders are meant to give you, the buyer, a better sense of what the final product will look like. I will do everything in my power to make sure everything turns out in the way I portray it, but please note there may be some variation to shade/hue of the colors once production has completed.

Prototype Photos

Unbuilt Prototype Album (click to view more pictures!):



Built Prototype Photos:

More









Sound Test:

https://clyp.it/bcrgvfu0

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Group Buy Information

Group buy slots will be allocated based on the results of a raffle. There will be two separate 10 minute entry windows to account for different time zones; one in the morning (Eastern), and one in the evening (Eastern).

The link to the raffle form will be posted in the first post of the GB thread just a few minutes prior to opening and will close immediately after the 10 minutes have lapsed; the same process will repeat for the evening window.

Date: July 4, 2020

Window 1:

   July 4, 2020 @ 10AM Eastern
   https://everytimezone.com/s/aeec084b

Window 2:

   July 4, 2020 @ 10PM Eastern
   https://everytimezone.com/s/7d004761

Raffle Entry Form will be posted on the morning of July 4th!

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Layout and Color Choices:

There will be a hard limit of 35 units available in this raffle. You will be able to choose from Red, Dark Gray, Black, or Silver anodizing colors. You will also be required to choose the plate that is included with the kit (full aluminum in silver/red OR a half-plate in frosted polycarbonate). You will be able to purchase a second plate (choosing from the same options) as an extra. There is only one top piece available -- there is no WKL or HHKB available in this group buy.

Entry Process:

Everyone will be permitted to enter in the raffle once -- please choose one entry window. Due to the potential for multiple entries, I will be going through them with a focus on weeding them out. Discovery will result in disqualification from this and future zekk.works group buys.

Your desired configuration (color, plate choice, etc.) will be determined from the choices you make in the entry form, so please make your choices carefully.

During entry, please use the email you use most for communications.

Raffle Results:

The 35 raffle winners will be chosen on the morning (Eastern US time) of July 5, 2020 and winners will be notified shortly after. Notification of winning the raffle will come in the form of an email from support@zekk.works as well as an invoice from my Shopify storefront. Notification of not securing a spot in this GB will be sent from support@zekk.works.

Completion of the raffle will also be noted in the Geekhack group buy thread.

Order Changes and Payment:

You will have 48 hours from the time of invoice receipt to make appropriate changes and pay for your slot. If, after 48 hours, an invoice remains unpaid, the slot will be re-raffled and allocated to a new winner*. This new winner will have the full 48 hours to make any changes and pay for their slot. Should there be a second instance of non-payment, the slot will not be re-raffled but held by me to sell after GB units have been fulfilled.

As a very serious reminder, PayPal will not be accepted as a valid form of payment.

All order changes or inquiries must be sent to support@zekk.works, no order changes or support questions will be answered via Discord or Geekhack PM.

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Kit Information

Pricing: $400

   Kit Breakdown:

      - 1x Top
      - 1x Bottom
      - 1x Plate (full aluminum or half polycarbonate)
      - 1x PCB
      - 1x O-ring (50A)
      - 1x Daughterboard
      - 1x Daughterboard cable

   With the choice of:

      - 1x extra plate (red/silver full aluminum OR half polycarbonate, +$45)
      - 1x extra PCB (+$40)
      - 1x extra o-ring (+$5)

Shipping:

Total fulfillment (manufacturing, finishing, shipment to me, QC, shipment to you) is expected to take approximately 3-4 months from the time payment is confirmed by the manufacturer. Shipping invoices will be calculated and sent at the time of shipment and no shipping costs will be included in the initial invoice.

All domestic, US-based addresses will be shipped via USPS Priority Mail, with signature confirmation, with no exceptions.

All international orders will be shipped via DHL Express, with no exceptions. The customer will be responsible for all shipping costs, including import fees.

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Miscellaneous Information:
  • Typing Angle: 4.5 Degrees
  • Front Face Height: 16.8mm
  • Unbuilt Weight: 1.3 lb/0.6kg
  • Built Weight: 2.1 lb/0.95kg
  • MoQ (minimum and maximum): 35 units
  • Note: This build will require the use of snap-in stabilizers on space bar and backspace (if you're using full backspace).
Layout Compatibility:


Current Group Buy Stage:
  • Part 0: Interest Check
  • Part 1: Raffle Form
  • Part 2: 48 Hour Order Change Period
  • Part 3: Order Check/Invoicing (48h)
  • Part 4: 48 Hour Order Change/Payment Period
  • Part 5: Payment to Manufacturer
  • Part 6: Manufacturing (lead time ~3-4 months)[/color]
  • Part 7: Manufacturer Ships to Me
  • Part 8: I Ship to You

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Q&A

Q: Will you change something small to fit my niche needs?
A: All minute details are final. No changes will be made prior to production.

Q: Will you offer something custom like a color or layout?
A: No. What you see is what you get.

Q: Will you consider increasing the quantity?
A: Nope. I'm one person with a full time job. It's like you people really want to end up in a perpetual group buy with no delivered product.

Q: Will there be extra keyboard kits?
A: In accordance with the raffle process, there may be extras. Please do not depend on there being extras.

Q: Why do you limit extra add-ons?
A: It will make things easier for me in the long run if I can keep the QC and packing process as streamlined as possible.

Questions directly answered or tangentially addressed in this Q&A will not be answered or commented on in this thread.

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Feel free to post any questions here (that aren't already answered) or send them to me on Discord (zekkin#0001) and I'll do my best to answer them.

Thanks!
« Last Edit: Tue, 26 January 2021, 16:20:06 by zekkin »

Offline zekkin

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 16:34:58 »
Reserved for updates.

July 4, 2020: Raffle complete.
July 5, 2020: RNG complete. Notifications sent out.
July 5, 2020: Invoicing complete, 48 hour payment period begins.
July 7, 2020: Invoices 100% paid. Payment being sent to manufacturer.
July 10, 2020: Payment confirmed by manufacturer. Keyboard parts to begin production ASAP.
July 25, 2020: Manufacturing.
August 8, 2020: Manufacturing; PCBs ordered.
August 22, 2020: Machining complete. Finishing to start.
September 2020: Shipment from manufacturer.
October 2020: Fulfillment.
November 2020: Group buy complete.

STATUS: GROUP BUY COMPLETE
« Last Edit: Fri, 06 November 2020, 13:09:20 by zekkin »

Offline PikaJoyce

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 17:48:01 »
YAY! Finally!!!

So stoked about this. Good luck to us all!

Thanks for making a beauty, Zekkin!

Offline Midori

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 17:53:22 »
this is kinda litty, good luck to everyone who wants one
 :thumb:
      

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Offline perryhuynh

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 17:54:22 »
Very excited, hope I can get one.
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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 17:54:29 »
Hoping for good luck!

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 17:54:33 »
zekkin is a wholesome lad and this is a wholesome keyboard

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 17:55:24 »
glwgb

Offline Velvet_Crowe

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 17:55:36 »
i love ogre!!!!!!
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Offline Hrage

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 17:56:26 »
Yay hope I can grab an ogre!

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 17:59:32 »
very cool

Offline Zeelobby

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #11 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 18:05:33 »
Let's goooo

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 18:10:47 »
I can taste the capsaicin

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #13 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 18:11:37 »
Nice! Hope RNGesus blesses me this weekend! GL with the GB zekk! And GL to those joining  :thumb:.

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #14 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 18:17:56 »
i stan zekk.works

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #15 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 18:34:10 »
GLWGB Zekk. Proper nice board this.

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #16 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 19:22:19 »
May the odds be ever in your favor.

Seriously GL with buy, great board from a good lad.


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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #17 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 19:36:16 »
wew lad !
f l y  o r  d i e

Offline cc2596

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #18 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 19:39:13 »
has everything i wanted in a keyboard

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #19 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 20:01:13 »
 ;D

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #20 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 20:07:41 »
Good luck everyone! Really want a red one.
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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #21 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 20:58:59 »
good luck with gb!

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #22 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 21:06:27 »
Can't wait!

Offline dydy124

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #23 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 22:57:23 »
Lets go! Hoping to get my hands on one of your boards.

Offline cdhoffmann

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #24 on: Tue, 30 June 2020, 23:11:39 »
Very excited about this board. Gl to everyone else who really wants one :)

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #25 on: Wed, 01 July 2020, 03:29:50 »
I was there
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Offline MyManMart

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #26 on: Wed, 01 July 2020, 03:51:09 »
Very excited. Looking forward to all Zekk boards as usual. :thumbsup:

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #27 on: Wed, 01 July 2020, 08:52:35 »
Very excited for this.  :thumb:
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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #28 on: Wed, 01 July 2020, 09:00:21 »
best of luck!  :thumb:

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #29 on: Wed, 01 July 2020, 09:00:56 »
Looks like a really nice board. GLWB
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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #30 on: Wed, 01 July 2020, 20:34:23 »
Great board from a Fantastic designer! GL to everyone in the GB! Amazing work Zekkin!  :thumb:

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #31 on: Thu, 02 July 2020, 01:08:35 »
Board looks amazing and hoping for a spot in the raffle. Good luck to everyone else!

Out of curiosity, are there any pictures of the h60 PCB anywhere? Can't seem to find one.
« Last Edit: Thu, 02 July 2020, 01:10:48 by wencan008 »

Offline zekkin

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #32 on: Thu, 02 July 2020, 03:44:07 »
Board looks amazing and hoping for a spot in the raffle. Good luck to everyone else!

Out of curiosity, are there any pictures of the h60 PCB anywhere? Can't seem to find one.

Yeah, for sure.



This is a photo taken by hiney (it's on his Flickr among some other great photos) of a prototype h60. As you can see, there's a soldered USB connector (will not be present for the PCBs used for Ogre) as well the JST connector pads just below and to the left of the USB connector (will be used for Ogre). You can also get a bit of a closer look at the cutouts that will allow the o-ring mount to be used.

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #33 on: Thu, 02 July 2020, 06:40:47 »
Will the raffle be ran using random.org or something else? Just curious as I have terrible luck with random.org LOL

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #34 on: Thu, 02 July 2020, 10:26:30 »
Very exciting. These newer renders are sooo nice.

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #35 on: Thu, 02 July 2020, 15:19:15 »
gl to everyone entering

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #36 on: Thu, 02 July 2020, 21:14:13 »
Cable route so NUT!
I am feeling very LIT!

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #37 on: Thu, 02 July 2020, 23:40:25 »

Yeah, for sure.

*snipped*

This is a photo taken by hiney (it's on his Flickr among some other great photos) of a prototype h60. As you can see, there's a soldered USB connector (will not be present for the PCBs used for Ogre) as well the JST connector pads just below and to the left of the USB connector (will be used for Ogre). You can also get a bit of a closer look at the cutouts that will allow the o-ring mount to be used.

Looks great! Thanks for the image

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #38 on: Fri, 03 July 2020, 00:09:26 »
Could technically use our own plate if we wanna do an Alps build, yeah?

Offline zekkin

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #39 on: Fri, 03 July 2020, 19:20:32 »
Could technically use our own plate if we wanna do an Alps build, yeah?

Yeah, once everything is underway I'll post an MX plate file and you can modify that to your liking.

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #40 on: Fri, 03 July 2020, 22:40:07 »
I couldn't find this answered in the IC so I figured I'd ask here

with O-ring gasket mount I've heard it's pretty common for pcb screw in stabs to interfere with the O-ring, particularly the space bar and the back space commonly doing this leading to the use of clip ins for those in order to let the O-ring fit, however some boards are designed in such a way that this does not occur. I was curious about if this occurred for you when building the prototype (not that it would dis-sway me from getting the board of course, but more of for my own knowledge if I win, I'll need to order stabs since I have none atm)

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #41 on: Sat, 04 July 2020, 00:35:52 »
v naisu

Offline zekkin

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Re: [GB] zekk.works Ogre - Seamless Gasket 60% (Raffle on July 4th!)
« Reply #42 on: Sat, 04 July 2020, 04:11:26 »
I couldn't find this answered in the IC so I figured I'd ask here

with O-ring gasket mount I've heard it's pretty common for pcb screw in stabs to interfere with the O-ring, particularly the space bar and the back space commonly doing this leading to the use of clip ins for those in order to let the O-ring fit, however some boards are designed in such a way that this does not occur. I was curious about if this occurred for you when building the prototype (not that it would dis-sway me from getting the board of course, but more of for my own knowledge if I win, I'll need to order stabs since I have none atm)

Yeah this is a fair point. I'll amend the OP to include it as well, but this build will require the use of snap-in stabilizers on space bar and backspace (if you're using full backspace).

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Raffle Form: https://form.jotform.com/201667834240050

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Form goes live in a little under 30 minutes. Good luck to all :thumb:

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 :) Raffle time soon

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Good luck everyone!  How long is raffle form window for each time slot?

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Good luck everyone!  How long is raffle form window for each time slot?

10 minutes each as stated in the post!

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Good luck everyone! What did you go for?
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