A Keyboard Wall Mount!Still coming up with a name
Hey Geekhack!
I'd like to share something that I've been working on for a while now to see if there's any demand from the community before getting deeper into the process! I've been lurking around the community for a while, do a few streams here and there, but this is the first thing I've tried to design and as far as I know, there is nothing else on the market like this.
It all started on one of Taeha's streams a couple months ago and we were talking about all the awesome keebs on the market, but not enough ways to display them. I realized then that everything currently available takes up space - desk space, shelf space...but what if they didn't need to?
I set off on a journey with some good friends who have product design experience to create a solution to display keyboards without taking up shelf or desk space. What if you could mount them on a wall? All the current DIYs have a peg board or something else sticking out, detracting visually from the keyboard itself.My main goal was to make a keyboard look like it was floating on the wall as much as possible - showing it off in all its glory with nothing else getting in the way.
The mount is composed of 4 pieces: 2 wall mount pieces and 2 arm pieces.The mount is modular and can extend to widen the available distance for the arms to slide. This gives the user flexibility to set the arms exactly where they want to support the keyboard. The mount and arms have been designed to be hidden behind most keyboards from 40% to full size, having only a little lip in the front show.
This is currently just a 3D-printed proof of concept prototype and needs a lot more work to be more refined, but before I continue down this path to figure out final materials and honing the design, I wanted to see if anyone else in the community would be interested or have any suggestions!
Here's the link to the form:
https://forms.gle/M8t91c5ebbxT2vSf6
Sorry for the crappy pics. Wife would only let me continuously make holes to wall-mount something in the garage where the lighting is really bad
The stand on the wall in the most compact form
With a KBD67MkII on it!
With a Satisfaction 75 on it!
With the mount extended for wider keyboards!
With a full-size keyboard on it!
Please fill out the interest check form for feedback!
Special thanks to skwol, dingusmaster, and mitim3 for helping me out in various ways from ideation, product design, and CAD modeling!
