Post by: cherpalla on Fri, 15 August 2014, 11:05:33
Awhile ago I had a thread discussing the idea of a SmallFry Tribute cap. I showed some ideas and heard your feedback.
The idea behind this cap is to preserve his memory by donating to his family's chosen cause in his name, to feed the hungry and to help support GeekHack, as we all believe SmallFry would have wanted.
Here is the prototype. Please let me know what you guys think. If you all like it, I will order a few samples to photograph in a few materials.
(https://images4.sw-cdn.net/model/picture/625x465_2477925_4423129_1408117041.jpg)
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 15 August 2014, 11:06:37
Post by: absyrd on Fri, 15 August 2014, 11:09:27
Post by: cherpalla on Fri, 15 August 2014, 14:46:47
CapCap.
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 15 August 2014, 15:04:36
Post by: Badwrench on Fri, 15 August 2014, 15:20:37
Small SmallFry Cap Cap?
+1. :thumb:
Post by: mashby on Fri, 15 August 2014, 15:37:34
Post by: Lingj on Fri, 15 August 2014, 20:01:37
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 15 August 2014, 21:52:59
Post by: cherpalla on Sat, 16 August 2014, 15:12:11
Post by: Halverson on Sat, 16 August 2014, 15:27:24
Post by: YoungMichael88 on Sat, 16 August 2014, 15:30:32
Post by: CPTBadAss on Sat, 16 August 2014, 15:49:48
Post by: Lurch on Sat, 16 August 2014, 18:05:28
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 16 August 2014, 21:05:02
Post by: katushkin on Sun, 17 August 2014, 00:14:52
Post by: Halverson on Sun, 17 August 2014, 00:15:54
On a related note, what ever became of the Smallfry Set? The white set with yellow trans legends and yellow modifiers?
I believe that became the "cherry replica" set.
Post by: jdcarpe on Sun, 17 August 2014, 00:26:02
On a related note, what ever became of the Smallfry Set? The white set with yellow trans legends and yellow modifiers?
They were orange, actually, not yellow. And they shipped a while back. I have two sets.
Post by: HendyZone on Sun, 17 August 2014, 00:28:42
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Sun, 17 August 2014, 00:30:11
On a related note, what ever became of the Smallfry Set? The white set with yellow trans legends and yellow modifiers?
They were orange, actually, not yellow. And they shipped a while back. I have two sets.
But on an official level, that set was renamed the Cherry Replica set. Last I heard there was an alternate set that would be called Nate's Set at a later date. I have no idea what post it was, or where I heard it, so I can't link. Or maybe I'm mistaken?
Post by: katushkin on Sun, 17 August 2014, 01:00:23
On a related note, what ever became of the Smallfry Set? The white set with yellow trans legends and yellow modifiers?
They were orange, actually, not yellow. And they shipped a while back. I have two sets.
But on an official level, that set was renamed the Cherry Replica set. Last I heard there was an alternate set that would be called Nate's Set at a later date. I have no idea what post it was, or where I heard it, so I can't link. Or maybe I'm mistaken?
Ahhhh, OK. I was just browsing the Smallfry threads and found myself looking at that set and wondering where it had led to as it looked pretty amazing. I am jealous JD.
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 17 August 2014, 03:20:22
On a related note, what ever became of the Smallfry Set? The white set with yellow trans legends and yellow modifiers?
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=50292.0
http://techkeys.us/collections/keycap-sets/products/cherry-replica-set
Post by: infiniti on Sun, 17 August 2014, 04:06:33
Post by: katushkin on Sun, 17 August 2014, 13:58:32
On a related note, what ever became of the Smallfry Set? The white set with yellow trans legends and yellow modifiers?
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=50292.0
http://techkeys.us/collections/keycap-sets/products/cherry-replica-set
Oh. OHHHHHH. Thanks man. Trust you to come up with alllll the relevant links ;)
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 17 August 2014, 17:25:54
On a related note, what ever became of the Smallfry Set? The white set with yellow trans legends and yellow modifiers?
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=50292.0
http://techkeys.us/collections/keycap-sets/products/cherry-replica-set
Oh. OHHHHHH. Thanks man. Trust you to come up with alllll the relevant links ;)
Most welcome :)
I have the set on my first Ducky Shine - looks great with the red backlighting!
Post by: cherpalla on Mon, 18 August 2014, 09:06:52
Post by: cherpalla on Sat, 30 August 2014, 21:27:32
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwVCjG8IYAAcndC.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/fLN4D0L.jpg)
Post by: Puddsy on Sat, 30 August 2014, 21:29:26
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Sat, 30 August 2014, 22:03:03
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=57263.msg1455582#msg1455582Show Image(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwVCjG8IYAAcndC.jpg)
Man, that picture...
Post by: cherpalla on Sat, 30 August 2014, 23:15:14
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=57263.msg1455582#msg1455582Show Image(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwVCjG8IYAAcndC.jpg)
Man, that picture...
So many feels. I just keep looking at it. It's like it's watching over my keyboard or something.
Post by: cherpalla on Sun, 31 August 2014, 07:56:03
Post by: mashby on Tue, 02 September 2014, 13:34:51
Post by: inlikeflynn on Tue, 02 September 2014, 14:27:23
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=57263.msg1455582#msg1455582 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=57263.msg1455582#msg1455582)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwVCjG8IYAAcndC.jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwVCjG8IYAAcndC.jpg)
Man, that picture...
Indeed....miss Nate
cherpalla, If you want I can send you a bunch of the original F&F/M3/Nate keys to include with people getting your SmallFry tribute keys. I unfortunately never have been able to run the whole donation thing for them
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45426 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45426)
Post by: mashby on Tue, 02 September 2014, 15:33:49
Indeed....miss Nate
cherpalla, If you want I can send you a bunch of the original F&F/M3/Nate keys to include with people getting your SmallFry tribute keys. I unfortunately never have been able to run the whole donation thing for them
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45426 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45426)
That would be great Flynn. Thank you. I purposefully left mine at the accident site last year when we paid our respects. It'd be nice to have a "sister key".
And is it just me, or does everyone think of SmallFry when watching a Taylor Swift video? Every time I see one, I can't help but stop and think "Nathan would love this video."
Post by: cherpalla on Tue, 02 September 2014, 20:00:56
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=57263.msg1455582#msg1455582 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=57263.msg1455582#msg1455582)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwVCjG8IYAAcndC.jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwVCjG8IYAAcndC.jpg)
Man, that picture...
Indeed....miss Nate
cherpalla, If you want I can send you a bunch of the original F&F/M3/Nate keys to include with people getting your SmallFry tribute keys. I unfortunately never have been able to run the whole donation thing for them
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45426 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45426)
Definitely. I'll PM you my address. :thumb:
Post by: cherpalla on Tue, 02 September 2014, 20:08:39
Indeed....miss Nate
cherpalla, If you want I can send you a bunch of the original F&F/M3/Nate keys to include with people getting your SmallFry tribute keys. I unfortunately never have been able to run the whole donation thing for them
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45426 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45426)
That would be great Flynn. Thank you. I purposefully left mine at the accident site last year when we paid our respects. It'd be nice to have a "sister key".
And is it just me, or does everyone think of SmallFry when watching a Taylor Swift video? Every time I see one, I can't help but stop and think "Nathan would love this video."
Would it be possible he would recreate the video? For some reason I feel like that is likely.
Post by: YoungMichael88 on Wed, 03 September 2014, 02:07:04
Post by: cherpalla on Thu, 04 September 2014, 12:17:44
I love this. I'll have one Soon™.
:thumb:
Post by: Halverson on Thu, 04 September 2014, 14:13:48
I love this. I'll have one Soon.
:thumb:
Whatever you decide on, get two.
Post by: JaccoW on Thu, 04 September 2014, 14:23:10
Post by: cherpalla on Thu, 04 September 2014, 14:32:42
I love this. I'll have one Soon
:thumb:
Whatever you decide on, get two.
AGREE :cool:
That's a great looking cap!
Thank you!
Post by: cherpalla on Thu, 04 September 2014, 14:51:38
Post by: Halverson on Thu, 04 September 2014, 14:58:15
I love this. I'll have one Soon
:thumb:
Whatever you decide on, get two.
AGREE :cool:That's a great looking cap!
Thank you!
The second would actually be for me to avoid the hassle of sending two packages to canada :)
I think we'll do doing the painted plastic caps
Post by: YoungMichael88 on Thu, 04 September 2014, 14:59:22
yupI love this. I'll have one Soon
:thumb:
Whatever you decide on, get two.
AGREE :cool:That's a great looking cap!
Thank you!
The second would actually be for me to avoid the hassle of sending two packages to canada :)
I think we'll do doing the painted plastic caps
Post by: cherpalla on Thu, 04 September 2014, 18:08:11
I love this. I'll have one Soon
:thumb:
Whatever you decide on, get two.
AGREE :cool:That's a great looking cap!
Thank you!
The second would actually be for me to avoid the hassle of sending two packages to canada :)
I think we'll do doing the painted plastic caps
Lemme know when you're ready so I can get them into production. It takes a few weeks ^_^
Post by: cherpalla on Fri, 05 September 2014, 14:01:35
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dEZab2ZNR1l0OXE4Wm1fVGJVNmZDdGc6MA
Post by: esoomenona on Fri, 05 September 2014, 14:13:42
I wish this whole "item on top of a normal keycap" phase would pass. It's nice that people are able to make some custom keycaps, but there is nothing desirable to me about a 7 foot tall keycap. You know what was nice about girlDC's caps? They didn't do that. He managed a way to fit the stem in the design of the cap, not fit the design on top of a normal cap.
Now, I'm not saying this is not a great idea, but I think, most especially with a design of a hat, that the cap can be better. Since the inside of a hat is hollow, the stem can stick out of it just fine to engage the switch. This would eliminate the unsightly "normal cap" design of it.
Am I the only one who thinks this?
Oh, and a Topre one is required. Or at the least, buckling spring. Nate like buckling springs.
Post by: cherpalla on Fri, 05 September 2014, 14:19:15
I'm going to put myself out there, on a topic that most people would never wish to say anything negative on, and say this:
I wish this whole "item on top of a normal keycap" phase would pass. It's nice that people are able to make some custom keycaps, but there is nothing desirable to me about a 7 foot tall keycap. You know what was nice about girlDC's caps? They didn't do that. He managed a way to fit the stem in the design of the cap, not fit the design on top of a normal cap.
Now, I'm not saying this is not a great idea, but I think, most especially with a design of a hat, that the cap can be better. Since the inside of a hat is hollow, the stem can stick out of it just fine to engage the switch. This would eliminate the unsightly "normal cap" design of it.
Am I the only one who thinks this?
Oh, and a Topre one is required. Or at the least, buckling spring. Nate like buckling springs.
If you look at my original drawing, I did have it much lower, however, when modeled on a keyboard, I found it hard to see the cap and thought it would be nice to include the rit-dye base of the keycap anyway. I posted these designs quite awhile ago. You could have at any point provided this feedback before I ordered one and spent 2 hours painting it to call it unsightly.
I will see about getting the other switches modeled.
Post by: esoomenona on Fri, 05 September 2014, 14:23:20
Anyone who has owned a girlDC cap knows full well you can see them well enough. Also, the vantage point we have over keyboards means your point of not being able to see the cap isn't necessarily true.
I adore the hat itself. I don't mean to take anything away there. I understand everything is pretty much finalized. Just a point of view.
Post by: cherpalla on Fri, 05 September 2014, 14:29:06
Unfortunately, I took a leave of absence for an amount of time, and have only recently "returned" and saw this.
Anyone who has owned a girlDC cap knows full well you can see them well enough. Also, the vantage point we have over keyboards means your point of not being able to see the cap isn't necessarily true.
I adore the hat itself. I don't mean to take anything away there. I understand everything is pretty much finalized. Just a point of view.
I have a GirlDC cap, among a few others, and I prefer them to be lower profile as well, but except for the whale key which is different from the others in that it is a top-down view of something in which is also based from the bottom, as opposed to a front-view of something from the top, with little room for tilting. The bill of the cap was difficult to see in the number row.
However, if I can get more feedback, I'm happy to lower the cap on the key and see if I can cancel the existing keys in production and start again.
Post by: esoomenona on Fri, 05 September 2014, 14:39:38
As it stands, unless there exists Topre or BS such that I would actually buy one and put it to use, my opinion is null in the matter as I'm not buying...
Perhaps this wasn't the best place to say this concern of mine about this trend in custom cap design, but I felt it was as, unlike those other caps, this is one I desire, so I do feel a need to give my input.
That's all. I don't think stopping any production is necessary at all. I truly hope everyone enjoys these caps, and that they touch you every day.
Post by: keyton on Fri, 05 September 2014, 17:30:54
Post by: cherpalla on Sun, 07 September 2014, 17:42:42
Post by: esoomenona on Mon, 08 September 2014, 09:06:09
Added Topre option to key.
Thanks. Are you able and willing to paint the metal keys in the same fashion as the plastic ones?
Post by: cherpalla on Mon, 08 September 2014, 13:54:37
Added Topre option to key.
Thanks. Are you able and willing to paint the metal keys in the same fashion as the plastic ones?
Yep! I can leave the base the metal you select or paint it the Rit-Dye Red copy as well. Just send me a note letting me know which you prefer.
Post by: cherpalla on Tue, 09 September 2014, 07:36:04
Let's keep it coming guys!
Just a heads-up to those with outstanding invoices -- I've already put your keys into production, so please pay as soon as you can. :)
You can also PM me if you'd like to just make a donation for the Sterling Silver Key (it's $100 bucks!) or directly to our funds for the scholarship. ^_^
:thumb:
Post by: cherpalla on Thu, 11 September 2014, 15:11:34
Post by: cherpalla on Mon, 15 September 2014, 11:02:55
:cool:
Post by: cherpalla on Wed, 24 September 2014, 10:53:26
Post by: cherpalla on Fri, 03 October 2014, 09:50:48