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Offline JonoColwell

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[IC] Wombat 200ish%
« on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 02:59:50 »
Hey Guys

Any interest in something like this? I am not interested in feedback that involves reducing the size of the board.

Three piece construction
Gasket mounted 4.5mm plate, brass

Options for brass being investigated but don't expect a full brass unit to be an option due to the insanely high cost of brass for this.

Colours will be dependent on the options available at the manufacturer, I'll be getting all pieces for the sale as prototypes for product shots before any sale.









Targeting around the 1500-2000 USD price point, depending on materials and price from china, so far I've had my prototypes manufactured in Australia but at the moment probably not looking to proceed with AU manufacture for a wide variety of reasons. If I can get it lower I will but expect it to cost a mint because it's enormous. The all aluminium unit here unbuilt is about 9-10kg


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« Last Edit: Sun, 10 July 2022, 03:26:31 by JonoColwell »

Offline iamtragic

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 03:02:12 »
Been following this project for a while - am interested!

Any information re: mounting style, colours, layouts?


Offline JonoColwell

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 03:04:31 »
Been following this project for a while - am interested!

Any information re: mounting style, colours, layouts?

Mounting Style: Currently gasket with 4.5mm plate is the only option, I might look into other options but this is pretty easy to put in there

Colours, at the moment I'm taking a look and seeing what I can get, depends on manufacturer, expect the GB to have pictures of the boards in the colours that are available because I prefer to not do renders if at all possible, except for keycaps because I can't get those made as a prototype.

Offline ankit

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 03:19:18 »
holy ****
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Offline nug

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 03:19:35 »
Any all brass special edition?

Offline linell

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 03:23:31 »
now how many would one person be able to buy?
bro this a **** set, just be thankful you even getting 1 base running fr

Offline TjarleN

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 03:29:27 »
I love this project and hope it will all work out. Really want to see this beast on peoples desks. :D
That said personally I can't justify buying a unit.

Any all brass special edition?

how heavy would that be? xD

Offline JonoColwell

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 03:36:08 »
Any all brass special edition?

Depends on material cost, as I'm planning to china it it should be possible

Any all brass special edition?

how heavy would that be? xD

27kg unbuilt

now how many would one person be able to buy?

The group buy will be unlimited. so you can theoretically buy as many as you want, also no limit on extra plates and PCBs

Offline Pyroo

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 03:40:21 »
absolute girth gremlin  :eek:
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Offline Darth_Austin

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 04:15:56 »
Please make this happen.

Offline JonoColwell

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 04:31:54 »
Please make this happen.

It is not possible to stop.

Offline LannyF82

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #11 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 05:01:06 »

Offline whirlwind

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #12 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 05:14:20 »
My poor ikea desk is in danger

Offline panka

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #13 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 05:55:13 »
have you considered increasing the angle of the board?

also your numpad + is the wrong way around sir

Offline JonoColwell

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #14 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 06:13:15 »
have you considered increasing the angle of the board?

also your numpad + is the wrong way around sir

I'm not gonna increase the angle, mostly because the stock pieces are already 45mm thick and weigh 20kg each for aluminium and 60kg for brass, also because that wouldn't be a typing angle I like to type on to be honest.

And yeah, the numpad is scuffed, I just quickly tossed it together after receiving it, will do a proper build when I get all the proper pieces together haha.

Offline codebrokers

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #15 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 08:27:43 »
Cool. Any chance of open source files for this?

Offline headphone_jack

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #16 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 10:14:14 »
Sweet lord. I love it! Quite the antithesis of most boards you'd see on r/mk. Any chance of open sourcing this at any point? Would love to try and print this out.

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #17 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 10:56:48 »
Mahoosive.
That's an appropriate word here.
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Offline stomaha

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #18 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 11:31:26 »
Any chance for split backspace? Would help with layering.

Offline FiEND

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #19 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 11:37:50 »
wait no 10u support? idk :/

Offline ZavaZ86

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #20 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 12:06:28 »
This is not a keyboard the hobby deserves but it's a keyboard the hobby needs 👍

Offline ttom

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #21 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 12:26:57 »
awesome
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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #22 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 14:14:17 »
In

Offline irithyll

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #23 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 15:15:53 »
I think supporting a 10u spacebar will be fitting for such a giant beauty.

Offline Theman2k

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #24 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 16:07:35 »
I waited so much for this IC. So first of all GLWIC!
Really interested, I like it a lot!
Price is a problem though, Hope it will be 1.5 tops.

+1 on the 10u spacebar support.
+1 on the all brass SE.

Also a lot of details are missing about colors, plates etc.. so there is something to look out for. :)

Offline nastrovje

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #25 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 17:17:15 »
yes

Offline subieboobies

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #26 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 18:09:53 »
100% in

Offline Jho

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #27 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 18:40:33 »
I saw this before, glad to see it on geekhack now. GLWIC

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #28 on: Fri, 08 July 2022, 21:26:24 »
big

Offline Nonnegaard

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #29 on: Sat, 09 July 2022, 07:13:14 »
gib. NAOW!
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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #30 on: Sat, 09 July 2022, 10:24:14 »
Hello I am interested in this


Have you considered increasing the size of the board?

Offline sagarsiddhpura

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #31 on: Sat, 09 July 2022, 10:32:29 »
I wish you have this in acrylic as a starter cheaper kit so that more people can enjoy it. This price point will scare away many interested people like me

Offline JonoColwell

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #32 on: Sun, 10 July 2022, 03:28:30 »
I think supporting a 10u spacebar will be fitting for such a giant beauty.

I don't even own any 10u spacebars.

I waited so much for this IC. So first of all GLWIC!
Really interested, I like it a lot!
Price is a problem though, Hope it will be 1.5 tops.

+1 on the 10u spacebar support.
+1 on the all brass SE.

Also a lot of details are missing about colors, plates etc.. so there is something to look out for. :)

Yeah, more details to come, essentially it's a very simple board with only three pieces, and gaskets, 4.5mm brass plate etc.


Hello I am interested in this


Have you considered increasing the size of the board?

Unfortunately increasing the size of the board isn't really feasible as I'm running up against PCB fabrication limits and I don't want to do split PCBs

I wish you have this in acrylic as a starter cheaper kit so that more people can enjoy it. This price point will scare away many interested people like me


As I said, I'm investigating bringing the price down, I'll also take a look into an acryllic option but at the same time the amount of acryllic you'd need would make even that quite expensive. I'll see what I can do for cheap option.

Offline Anthixious

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #33 on: Sun, 10 July 2022, 14:04:07 »
This is without a doubt the most extra board I've seen. I laughed when I saw comments about a potential brass variant, also am I reading that right?! 60kg for an all-brass boi? 4.5mm plate?! Outstanding that this board can even exist.

Offline TjarleN

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #34 on: Sun, 10 July 2022, 14:26:08 »
This is without a doubt the most extra board I've seen. I laughed when I saw comments about a potential brass variant, also am I reading that right?! 60kg for an all-brass boi? 4.5mm plate?! Outstanding that this board can even exist.

Any all brass special edition?

how heavy would that be? xD

27kg unbuilt


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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #35 on: Sun, 10 July 2022, 14:36:29 »
abomination

i'll take 2
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Offline CyCo

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #36 on: Sun, 10 July 2022, 17:44:54 »
@OP
This is amazing.
Im having a similar custom KB made, but with 1 row above the Frow instead of 3 rows.
And no arrow keys on the left.

One tip, I'm having it made in plastic first. Even with per key RGB and stabs preinstalled, it makes it a lot cheaper because of the plastic.
Just a tip :).

if youre interested, lmk.

Heres the image link in case it doesnt display for you.
https://imgur.com/a/wlFWSVX



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Offline linell

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #37 on: Mon, 11 July 2022, 17:34:49 »
@OP
This is amazing.
Im having a similar custom KB made, but with 1 row above the Frow instead of 3 rows.
And no arrow keys on the left.

One tip, I'm having it made in plastic first. Even with per key RGB and stabs preinstalled, it makes it a lot cheaper because of the plastic.
Just a tip :).

if youre interested, lmk.

Heres the image link in case it doesnt display for you.
https://imgur.com/a/wlFWSVX

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lol
bro this a **** set, just be thankful you even getting 1 base running fr

Offline plag

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #38 on: Mon, 11 July 2022, 17:55:24 »
this is awesome

Offline rui

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #39 on: Wed, 13 July 2022, 20:45:17 »
could you try multipeice 3d printing

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #40 on: Fri, 15 July 2022, 08:54:07 »
Too small



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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #41 on: Sun, 17 July 2022, 11:23:55 »
gawdamn

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #42 on: Sun, 17 July 2022, 16:41:32 »
Literally a sin against nature.

I love it. Do Crime.

I hope that people get to enjoy this!
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Offline WillyWortel

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #43 on: Thu, 21 July 2022, 15:14:41 »
27kg.... ooof... I have to reinforce my table for that keyboard  ;D

Offline Nonnegaard

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #44 on: Thu, 21 July 2022, 19:51:41 »
Very, very interested.
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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #45 on: Thu, 21 July 2022, 22:47:30 »
I like the contrast shot of the massive keyboard and the tiny bicycle.

Offline KMG

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #46 on: Sat, 23 July 2022, 10:22:42 »
that's interesting

Offline lw88

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #47 on: Sat, 30 July 2022, 19:12:16 »
I think this is my favourite thing I've seen on here or in the hobby.

Offline franklima260

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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #48 on: Sun, 07 August 2022, 12:03:49 »
Super cool project! The $1500+ price point is a bit rough but I am defiantly interested!
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Re: [IC] Wombat 200ish%
« Reply #49 on: Sun, 07 August 2022, 14:46:27 »
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