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geekhack Marketplace => Interest Checks => Topic started by: Big Beard on Thu, 10 February 2022, 03:34:57
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Wave 88
Hi, Here is Oasis Industry.
In geography, the Oasis is fertile land in the desert environment, which provides habitats for animals and plants. Meanwhile, the Oasis also stands for anticipation and yearning for the future. It is just like the oasis from the movie Ready Player One, which is a world built with high technology, making people fantasize about it.
Our first customized keyboard WAVE 88 originates from a lame joke,
-” How can you tell if the ocean is friendly or not?”
-” Because it WAVES!”
As our first product, WAVE 88 should be friendly as the ocean, and we would always express our warmest welcome to all lovers of the customized keyboard to use our products.
In the oasis in the desert environment, you can hardly find the ocean or see the wave. However, we hope that we could have the ocean in our Oasis, which has multiple meanings: Creativity, Freedom and Improvement.
Appearance
WAVE 88 is a TKL keyboard with the F13 key.
Front
On the front side of the WAVE 88, there is a logo “W”, which looks like the WAVE and also stands for WAVE.
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Back
As much as we love our logo and stick to the concept of WAVE, we engrave the word "WAVE” on the rectangular weight on the backside of WAVE 88.
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Side
On the side, we use the streamlined design, giving the keyboard a more flexible bend on the sides.
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Outlet
We place the outlet in the middle to make the keyboard more symmetrical.
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Colors
To provide customers with as many color options as possible, we offer 6 colorways of the keyboard case and 4 choices of the weight. Therefore, there are 24 color combinations in total for this single keyboard project. We aimed at covering the needs of users who wish to match their keycaps in themes.
Colorways of Case: White(electrophoresis), Dark Green(Anodized), Red(Anodized), Blue(Anodized), Silver(Anodized), Black(Anodized)
Weight: Gold, Sliver, Sandblasted, Chrome
Layout
Windows Key (WK) and Windows Keyless (WKL) cases are offered.
Default ANSI & ISO Layout with a 7U spacebar and 1.5U Crtl & Alt Keys. (no 6.25U layout)
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Other Parameters
Material: 6061 Full aluminum
Slope: 7.5
Plate material: PC
Typing experience & Sound signature
Structure
The structure of WAVE 88 is PCB Gasket Mount and supports both plateless(Primary) & with plate mode to provide customers with different choices, Typing experience and Sound signature.
PCB(solder&hot-swap)
Designed and powered by Owlab.
The PCB supports VIA/VIAL/QMK and is 1.5mm thick.
The way of fixing is to put rubber socks on both ends of the leaf spring.
There are two kinds of PCB: Solder PCB(support plateless) / Hot-swap PCB(with plate + flex cut design)
Two different PCB kits offer different typing experiences & typing sounds.
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Sound Testing
Please give your feedback on the Form ～ https://forms.gle/BRh56WY8Dvo7FMdQ8 (https://forms.gle/BRh56WY8Dvo7FMdQ8)
Welcome to join our Discord to get further information and chat together! https://discord.gg/2Qr472wrEy (https://discord.gg/2Qr472wrEy)
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personally not a fan of "wave" engraving on the back :(
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personally not a fan of "wave" engraving on the back :(
I have to agree
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Btw any chance you are making a copy cat here?
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Oh my, that wave engraving on the weight is uggo
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this already ran in china i think?
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this already ran in china i think?
Yes，and customers have already received their keebs
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Btw any chance you are making a copy cat here?
The backside reminds me of the Kage. What are you referring to?
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The customizable color combinations are great. And plateless? Interesting.
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Btw any chance you are making a copy cat here?
The backside reminds me of the Kage. What are you referring to?
Same, this looks like a Kage imitation.
Hard pass.
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Hope you guys like it
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Btw any chance you are making a copy cat here?
The backside reminds me of the Kage. What are you referring to?
Same, this looks like a Kage imitation.
Hard pass.
After checking, Kage was released on ins around 9.29, while Wave was similarly sampled in China in September and GB in October. On zFrontier, Kage and wave were released around the same time difference, and this imitation argument is not valid in my opinion.
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Kage is so generic and indistinct a design that accusing others of copying it won’t have much credibility.
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Not a fan of the "Wave" on the back as well.
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"WAVE" on the weight ruins it for me.
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A 1u keycap with studio logo will be included in the package, filled with enamel, and the anode level is the same as the case. Photos will be released in two days.
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W engraving on front > "wave" on back. It makes the back of the keyboard look like the jelly. Consider swapping the text for the cool 'w' logo.
Don't normally like engraving on the top but this looks good.