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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: Sirgeorge on Sun, 12 March 2017, 20:18:49

Title: Tools on the way. Who wants to see a new key being made?
Post by: Sirgeorge on Sun, 12 March 2017, 20:18:49

So, I've spent the last couple of days working on my foray into the keycap market and I can happily say that, after a small setback involving 3D printers, I am now ordering the necessary supplies to bring my digital design into the physical world. It should look relatively similar to my prototype design that I released a few days ago: [attach=1] Regardless, it'll be fun. I'll be posting an update or another thread when I get the next version of the key (this time in physical form) up and running. See ya, cheers!

Title: Re: Tools on the way. Who wants to see a new key being made?
Post by: hadekele on Sun, 12 March 2017, 22:29:49

Exciting stuff! Which program did you use to sculpt with?

Title: Re: Tools on the way. Who wants to see a new key being made?
Post by: Sirgeorge on Sun, 12 March 2017, 23:43:11

I'm a big fan of Blender. I use it for practically everything it has to offer. So, you interested in something like this? Do you see a way to improve it?

Title: Re: Tools on the way. Who wants to see a new key being made?
Post by: beehatch on Mon, 13 March 2017, 04:09:03

kinda looks like a vaginal opening with eyes

Title: Re: Tools on the way. Who wants to see a new key being made?
Post by: Sirgeorge on Mon, 13 March 2017, 07:35:44

You know, you would think that in the process of making it...Ya I noticed when I took a step back and looked at it but I was hoping it was just me. Regardless, I'm going to need feedback during the actual sculpting phase to get this right. I'm using water based air dry clay so I can keep remolding and remolding it if I need to until I get it to something that people would like.

Title: Re: Tools on the way. Who wants to see a new key being made?
Post by: Sirgeorge on Mon, 13 March 2017, 13:03:55

Just a quick update, I got a $ynth on the way. I'm feeling happy. Should help out with the work that has to get done.

Title: Re: Tools on the way. Who wants to see a new key being made?
Post by: kolec94 on Mon, 13 March 2017, 13:15:45

what are you going to be making this out of?

Title: Re: Tools on the way. Who wants to see a new key being made?
Post by: Sirgeorge on Mon, 13 March 2017, 13:54:02

I'm going to model this digital design (because I'm not 3D printing it for reasons too long to explain here) using a water based air dry clay. When I get past the back and forth with the community until people generally like it, I'm going to take the final version and I'm going to make a silicon mold for it. Then, I'm going to use resin to do the final cap. In the future, I hope to upgrade this process but for now this is my methodology.