Wooting One

[TheVengeance]

So The Wooting is almost here, and it's now fully analogue.

I don't see much talk of it considering it's opening for funding on Tuesday.

Is GH against it, or just aren't on the mailer?

Awaiting Kickstarter Approval!

We're still awaiting the Kickstarter approval and it looks like they won't approve it before the 22nd of May.

So, we've decided to launch on the 24th of May. A little unexpected but you can already preview the Kickstarter pledges and get ready!

Once we've received approval, we will announce the exact launch time on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (links below).

In the meanwhile, you can already support us by joining the Thunderclap that will go live a day after launch.


Kickstarter is nearing!
Mark the date! We aim to launch the Kickstarter on the 22nd of May, we’ll make sure to keep you up-to-date if anything changes and notify you at what time we will exactly go live.

If you’re as excited as we are, then help us out and join our Thunderclap or spread the message to your fellow gamers.

Now let me show you a bit of what we’ve been working on and check out the upcoming Kickstarter rewards we’re planning.

The Kickstarter video
We like to keep everything authentic, honest and transparent. That’s why we also like to do many things ourselves instead of spending it all out just to make it look extremely professional. We’d rather spend that kind of Ka-ching on the actual product and gaming community.

So, when it came to the Kickstarter video we only spent money on renting a studio, camera equipment, and a camera-guy. The rest is all DIY, no actors, no stock footage, no friend-benefits, no marketing company etc. Just us, with an idea and a lot of willpower.

Kickstarter Video

 

Oh, and right now we’re busy with the video editing, ourselves. So, it doesn’t get any more real than that if you ask me. We’re excited!!

Kickstarter rewards (Preview)
When we started, we wanted to offer two optional items: a wrist pad and PBT or Double ABS keycaps. In the end, we decided that we’d include neither. The reason? It just didn’t feel right and it would add too much workload if we did it how we want it.

I’ve received several wrist-pad samples ranging from foam to wood but it all felt too generic. We would rather make one ourselves with your feedback, instead of rushing one out just for the sake of it.

The same counts for the keycaps. We went by Tai-Hao, but they didn’t offer any backlit compatible PBT or double ABS keycaps and weren’t as eager as we were to do something cool.

Other keycap manufacturers we found only offered backlit double ABS keycaps with those horrifying “futuristic/gaming” legends. Not cool.

Coming to the point that we decided to keep it to the core product. The Wooting one.

Ze rewards
Introduction: I’ve noticed that we’ve been a bit too shallow on explaining exactly what these Rewards mean and entail. So I’ve made everything a bit more clear and added some information.

We’ve done our best to give the most competitive prices available, so that as many as possible people can start using an analog keyboard and we can work towards an industry standard. Your contribution isn’t only for an advanced keyboard, it’s also for our continued work in developing a better analog experience, upgrading your Wooting one keyboard with new analog features and build the pillars of which Wooting can continuously serve gamers with game changing ideas.

After the Kickstarter we will send out a Survey to ask, besides the standard, the following questions:

Do you want an ISO or ANSI layout, already in
If ISO: What language layout do you want? (Nordic, Latin, QWERTZ, AZERTY, let us know!)
Do you want Flaretech red or blue switch?
If you choose Red switch, the additional switches will be blue and you’ll receive 2 extra red switches
If you choose Blue switch, the additional switches will be red and you’ll receive 2 extra blue switches.

Personally I can see many many uses for photoshop etc.

[chuckdee]

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=74132.0

[FoxWolf1]

Analog sensing for keyboard switches has a lot of potential IMO.

Even if you are just having the keyboard send keystrokes to the computer in the normal way, with a good implementation of analog sensing, you can remove many of the compromises inherent in traditional switch designs. For example, you no longer have to balance your amount of over-travel for comfort against how much motion it takes the user to release and re-press a held key. You can do a clicky switch that double-taps even more easily than a linear switch. You can have the balance between initial press speed and resistance to accidental keypresses adjustable by the user or even application-sensitive, and making the key trigger sooner in the stroke will not carry any compromise in how far you have to lift your finger to release a key that's fully held down.

The main question will be how much of this potential Wooting is able to realize. Even if they half-ass it and don't get out of the mindset of thinking of activation as a point, there may still be advantages in durability and latency, as well as whatever specifically-analog stuff they manage to implement, so it'd still be kind of exciting-- but perhaps not as exciting as if they implement the switch more cleverly.