++current status/recent updates++
Hi hi hi hi, we're moving ahead with the group buy for this board.

To summarize:

Group buy begins June 17th, closes June 30th or if we reach cap, whatever comes first.

Pricing starts at $390. Colorways confirmed Silver, Blackberry, Limestone. WKL/HHKB only.

More details below and new pictures and info in the discord!

UPCOMING STREAMS
Captain Sterling: Wednesday June 7th, 9PM EDT
StarfirePenguin: Thursday June 8th, 11:30PM EDT

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hello geekhack readers,

Welcome to the OC IC. I am synthetics. You may or may not recognize me from doing a render, from various discord communities, or from these forums where I occasionally post to tell people their stuff is cool or to just make fun of Ankit. In any case, nice to see you again or meet you.

My friend Bowl and I have recently designed a keyboard that we hope you might enjoy. It's called OC-62. It's a humble 60% board with some nice features you can read about below. While there's certainly a long and interesting history to this design, I don't believe it's prudent to waste your time with a ton of OC lore here, so let's just get into the details:


IC Form: https://forms.gle/BE9hTv6E7gZbbovw6

   ++details & features++
custom 60% mechanical keyboard
anodized 6063 aluminum top and bottom case
5052 aluminum full plate (plus other options potentially)
large sandblasted copper bar weight (materials tbd copper only)
modified 5-tab leaf-spring "o-ring sandwich" mount (think F1/2, but on 5 smaller tabs)
designed for compatibility with bb60/h60 pcb footprint
optional newly upgraded bb60 pcb from sleepdealer (QMK/VIAL)
7.2 degree typing angle
17.6mm adjusted front height / 22.39mm ekh
~1.6kg built (with copper)
dramatic side profile and accent seam
hidden internal cable routing
cleverly integrated screwless ez-mate S1 daughterboard

   ++tentative sale info++
format: fcfs group buy
date: june 17, 2023 - june 30, 2023
vendor: loobedswitches.com (worldwide)
layouts: wkl & mx hhkb
colors: blackberry, limestone, silver
target price: low $4xx, tbd $390
units: ~50 (moq), cap a bit higher roughly double if demand exists
estimated lead time: ~6 months from gb close
**this is all tentative and subject to changes**

   ++renders/pictures++
renders and proto pictures by me 
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   ++contact/links++
the best place to follow the project is on the bowlanci platoon discord server: https://discord.gg/n9FRZewwNR
all updates will be posted in the oc-62 channel so if you're interested, grab the oc-62 role on the server and stay tuned

IC Form: https://forms.gle/BE9hTv6E7gZbbovw6


   ++past updates & changelog++
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   ++credit where credit due++
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   ++questions & answers++
Why is it called OC-62? The OC part… iykyk, otherwise whatever you want it to mean. 62 comes from it being a 60% and my 2nd board design, thus 60-2 but 62 was weirder so I chose that. Originally planned to give it a different “real” name but people started using this one, it stuck and here we are.

Will you please offer a WK version? Maybe. We want to keep the SKUs low so we’re trying not to add 3 additional SKUs for WK in every color, but fill out the IC form and we’ll see how many of you are out there before we make a final call.

Is ISO supported? The case supports it, the plate does not. We will release ISO compatible plate files however, so if you need to you can get one cut.

Any hotswap avail? The PCB we’re selling is solder only, but the board is compatible with a number of hotswap capable PCBs, like hiney’s HS H60 for example.

I love it

Also plate file after GB and no PCB is perfect for me

Thanks

Really like this! Think I need that limestone in my life! Glwic!

I think there is a limestone in my name.

GLWIC synthetics 

  NICE 

hi syn
v glad to watch this come to fruition, from the drawings to now, looks lit   
glwgb <3
:wuahh:

Limestone looking so nice with the copper weight

IN!

That purple almost as sexy as Synthetics himself. 

Love this design, GLWIC!

Great work

Wow thanks for all the positive responses everyone, was not expecting this 

I was planning on doing the multi-quote thing people do to respond to people's questions that they posted, but there haven't really been any questions here so far, so instead I'll respond to some common IC questions and concerns:

"Will there be more vendors for other regions?"
Probably not, no.  At this scale (even if we go over 50 units), I'm not sure it's necessary to give ourselves the headache of coordinating more vendors for this project.

"Are there more pictures or a soundtest or videos?"
Not yet, but once the next prototypes come in, if they are like we expect them to be, they will be going out to content creators for all that good stuff, so we'll keep you posted on that.

"I am very concerned about price/can we increase moq?"
I promise we're going to do all we can to make this as affordable as possible for everyone. We're waiting for some quotes on various quantities. The MINIMUM quantity to get this thing rolling is 50, but we will of course make some more if there's demand, and calculate our pricing accordingly.  However, we don't want this to turn into a GB that takes, you know, a year? two years? forever...? We've seen it happen way too often. We'd prefer to keep it manageable and be able to deliver these to customers in a timely fashion. Hopefully that's understandable.

Thanks again guys for all the kind words and your interest, you guys are amazing, have a great day.

Love the look of this! GLIC!

Checks the right boxes

Howdy folks, little update for you all today:

We've gotten quotes back and are very pleased to announce our planned base kit price for this keyboard will be $390.

The three color options we had asked about will be the final color options (Silver, Blackberry, Limestone) and all weights will be Copper.

While moq remains 50, we will be capping the sales at 100 units to make sure we can deliver this in an organized and timely fashion.  There are more updates on the discord which you can find in the original post, which I will also edit to reflect this new information (I will do this later, I don't have time right this minute).

In other news the next round of protos is done machining and will be anodized and shipped out to us shortly, and then to content creators very shortly after that. Things are moving along well, we're very excited to get some quality videos, pictures, soundtests and the like for this board. We truly believe you will enjoy them.

Hope everyone had a great weekend, and thank you all again for your interest in the oc-62!

 

Looks great, will definitely keep an eye on it

Hello all, thanks to all of the support we've received so far, we're moving ahead with the group buy for this board.  It will begin on June 17th.  More info in the original post and on the discord. 

Also, we have some content creators streaming this board this week:

Captain Sterling: Wednesday June 7th, 9PM EDT
StarfirePenguin: Thursday June 8th, 11:30PM EDT

Stop by if you have time!