Intruiged with that layout there. Seems to be some fairly noticeable gaps between capsI also want to point out a few things.
Intruiged with that layout there. Seems to be some fairly noticeable gaps between capsI also want to point out a few things.
A) The "flex cut" itself would just not work. Those slits are far too thin, and don't cover enough of the plate to even be good enough for your intent.
B) The selected mounting method just doesn't make much sense. It looks like you have taken an attempt at making it a leaf spring plate, given up and opted to screw it in. Word of advice, stick with one or the other. Right now the plate is just not that good looking, and doesn't seem that good in terms of function. Have one or the other, since screw holes makes the "leaf spring" obsolete and vice versa.
C) Renders... Just try to fix them please.
D) Pricing. $350 USD or less is not reasonable to be quite frank. For the things you want offered with this board, it just doesn't even seem realistic. My suggestion would be to put an N/A next to that price until you have quotes for the board, pcb, hardware, etc. so you can actually think about what the selling price and MoQ would be.
E) Please remove some of the filler stuff. Some additional things aren't really needed.
F) It is best not to hide the statement about running some acrylic cases in order to test things. I would also suggest just sucking it up with the pricing and prototyping the real thing as well as the actual pcbs. You are running an IC for a what seems to be alu case are you not? So maybe that should be the focus.
These are just some thoughts on your IC. Do not take this as someone trying to tear your idea down, but take it constructively. Look at some other keyboard ICs such as the 7v by gok (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=100896.0) and try to build yours like his. Cheers.
Intruiged with that layout there. Seems to be some fairly noticeable gaps between capsI also want to point out a few things.
A) The "flex cut" itself would just not work. Those slits are far too thin, and don't cover enough of the plate to even be good enough for your intent.
B) The selected mounting method just doesn't make much sense. It looks like you have taken an attempt at making it a leaf spring plate, given up and opted to screw it in. Word of advice, stick with one or the other. Right now the plate is just not that good looking, and doesn't seem that good in terms of function. Have one or the other, since screw holes makes the "leaf spring" obsolete and vice versa.
C) Renders... Just try to fix them please.
D) Pricing. $350 USD or less is not reasonable to be quite frank. For the things you want offered with this board, it just doesn't even seem realistic. My suggestion would be to put an N/A next to that price until you have quotes for the board, pcb, hardware, etc. so you can actually think about what the selling price and MoQ would be.
E) Please remove some of the filler stuff. Some additional things aren't really needed.
F) It is best not to hide the statement about running some acrylic cases in order to test things. I would also suggest just sucking it up with the pricing and prototyping the real thing as well as the actual pcbs. You are running an IC for a what seems to be alu case are you not? So maybe that should be the focus.
These are just some thoughts on your IC. Do not take this as someone trying to tear your idea down, but take it constructively. Look at some other keyboard ICs such as the 7v by gok (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=100896.0) and try to build yours like his. Cheers.
I agree on everything except point D, it's definetely possible to make a $350 board with this specs without sacrificing too much the quality of it. The fact that we see many expensive boards doesn't mean $350 is no longer possible.
Absolutely not saying that the other are overcharging, they just have a different target buyers and offering different things. Given a random board (any), it could be produced with $250 or $500 for example, the point is to make quality worth for the price you are paying.
Intruiged with that layout there. Seems to be some fairly noticeable gaps between capsI also want to point out a few things.
A) The "flex cut" itself would just not work. Those slits are far too thin, and don't cover enough of the plate to even be good enough for your intent.
B) The selected mounting method just doesn't make much sense. It looks like you have taken an attempt at making it a leaf spring plate, given up and opted to screw it in. Word of advice, stick with one or the other. Right now the plate is just not that good looking, and doesn't seem that good in terms of function. Have one or the other, since screw holes makes the "leaf spring" obsolete and vice versa.
C) Renders... Just try to fix them please.
D) Pricing. $350 USD or less is not reasonable to be quite frank. For the things you want offered with this board, it just doesn't even seem realistic. My suggestion would be to put an N/A next to that price until you have quotes for the board, pcb, hardware, etc. so you can actually think about what the selling price and MoQ would be.
E) Please remove some of the filler stuff. Some additional things aren't really needed.
F) It is best not to hide the statement about running some acrylic cases in order to test things. I would also suggest just sucking it up with the pricing and prototyping the real thing as well as the actual pcbs. You are running an IC for a what seems to be alu case are you not? So maybe that should be the focus.
These are just some thoughts on your IC. Do not take this as someone trying to tear your idea down, but take it constructively. Look at some other keyboard ICs such as the 7v by gok (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=100896.0) and try to build yours like his. Cheers.
Intruiged with that layout there. Seems to be some fairly noticeable gaps between caps
Nice, i'll follow this :)
I'm not sure about the vertical display tho, it's a bit too small to fit words, maybe you can merge the display with the badge and make a bigger vertical badge instead of the oled.
Also not sure about this plate.
Any pic of the bottom of the board?
Intruiged with that layout there. Seems to be some fairly noticeable gaps between capsI also want to point out a few things.
A) The "flex cut" itself would just not work. Those slits are far too thin, and don't cover enough of the plate to even be good enough for your intent.
B) The selected mounting method just doesn't make much sense. It looks like you have taken an attempt at making it a leaf spring plate, given up and opted to screw it in. Word of advice, stick with one or the other. Right now the plate is just not that good looking, and doesn't seem that good in terms of function. Have one or the other, since screw holes makes the "leaf spring" obsolete and vice versa.
C) Renders... Just try to fix them please.
D) Pricing. $350 USD or less is not reasonable to be quite frank. For the things you want offered with this board, it just doesn't even seem realistic. My suggestion would be to put an N/A next to that price until you have quotes for the board, pcb, hardware, etc. so you can actually think about what the selling price and MoQ would be.
E) Please remove some of the filler stuff. Some additional things aren't really needed.
F) It is best not to hide the statement about running some acrylic cases in order to test things. I would also suggest just sucking it up with the pricing and prototyping the real thing as well as the actual pcbs. You are running an IC for a what seems to be alu case are you not? So maybe that should be the focus.
These are just some thoughts on your IC. Do not take this as someone trying to tear your idea down, but take it constructively. Look at some other keyboard ICs such as the 7v by gok (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=100896.0) and try to build yours like his. Cheers.
Thank you for these!
Re:A) Yes, I'm quite aware of those "flex cuts," so I'll be adjusting them to make them more usable rather than just unusable and annoying. :thumb:
Re:B) I will be adjusting the plate itself, because I'm quite aware that those leaves were all made because of unnecessary worry. I'll be sticking to burger mount instead
Re:C) Soon I will be asking someone for the renders, coz right now I don't have the fund yet
Re:D) Yep, that price is actually too good to be true, but I will be doing my best to make the prices go down. But for now, maybe I will be not making any price point.
Re:E) Will do!
Re: F) Yes, this will be an alucase version. And yes, I'll not hide that acrylic version info.
Thanks a lot! I will be editing the post :thumb:
Wow people have been asking for a 65% with encoder/oled support. Nice.
Looks great! I'm definitely interested. Any idea as to the pricing/GB date?
Looks great! Is that the badge under the Knob? If so does custom mean we can choose what goes on it?
This would be endgame for me I just have two critical things holding me back. I would suggest fewer curves and sharper edges and function keys. Overall great design tho :thumb:
This is great design! :thumb:
Can I say some of my opinion?
It's just my guessing. I'm afraid if your hand block the OLED display while you turning the Rotary Encoder. how about changing the positions of them each other? so you can read the display while turning the Rotary Encoder.
And this is just personal taste but In my opinion, it will be cleaner design if you get rid of the gold spare under the OLED display, and make the OLED display longer or bigger so it can have more visibility!
I wish the OLED display have some big and simple information making it readable at a glance, without putting your eyes closer to the OLED display.
Sorry for my poor English ;D