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930 ALICE
INTRODUCTION
Hello everyone.
I'm Nicholas, I am working for a company specializing in the production of aluminum for the construction industry. With my knowledge, with Bruce's help, I created this post to introduce everyone to my first project, 930.alice. With my vision, I want to bring a novelty in the mechanical keyboard.
Concept and Design
In a long time of experience, I am really impressed with the layout alice because of its fast typing speed, good ability to use two hands. That's why I decided to study layout alice.
I wanted to look for novelty in materials, I realized that all keyboards use PC as a plate. This interests me really: "Can a PC make a case or not". That's why I researched and developed the top plate with red-dyed PC material.
About the bottom I still prefer to use aluminum / brass to create weight for the keyboard. However with "topdown" design, that meanthe bottom is completely covered by the top, all the material becomes thick, it becomes expensive to design extra weights, so I decided to design the flat bottom.
i love the beauty of simplicity, that's why i chose a 4 part design, top, bot, plate and logo, this makes the installation easy but doesn't lose its beauty.
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Technical datasheet
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Layout: Alice
4 part:
Top: sandblasted PC red dye-sub
Bot: 6063 Alumium Anodized Red colour/ sandblasted Brass
Logo: default sandblast Brass
Isolated gasket mounting
Plate: Default anodized Red Aluminum
Naming Version
2 versions:
Top PC - bot Alumium: Classic Edition (CE)
Top PC - bot Brass: Special Edition (SE)
Fetures
Typing angle: 6 degrees
"Topdown" structure, gives a monolithic seamless feeling
Custom PCB and Daughterboard by Mechlovin’ Studio
Design by Bruce - Ori club
Supported to layout ANSI
What's in this box?
930.alice keyboard
Default aluminum red plate
PCB, USB-C Daughterboard
Custom box (I'm designing)
What add-ons will be available?
Extra Plate Add-on
Extra PCB, USB-C Daughterboard Add-on
Extra Logo Steanless Steel Seamless Add-on
Sale Info
Kit price:
(CE): 480$
(SE): 600$
GB managed by Bruce - Ori club
Estimated Fulfillment Date: Q1- Q3 2023 base on quanty
Question
Why only Red?
First of all, I quite like red. secondly using PC dye-sub sandblasting seems to have too little choice of color, I don't want to risk product color in the first project
Why is there that price?
Because with this "topdown" structural, the raw material is very thick. moreover, the processing of large and thick PC is quite time consuming and comes with high cost
Proptype V1 information
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Soundtest will be update soon
My community
Discord: https://discord.gg/x98VTYhXKv
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/930.engineering/
IC form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz_CvkICk0Mf0FR17TO3w38cmgNciGSlmyyAjiLj0yfqVu_g/viewform
Thank to Ori-Club and Mechlovin Studio for my first project