Author Topic: Miniguru has been canceled (Read 5479 times)

Laggy-gaga · « **on:** Fri, 18 June 2010, 10:33:14 »

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Miniguru Canceled
Production of the Miniguru has been canceled. :-(

I don’t want to list the specific reasons here, let’s just say that mainly we lost faith in being able to sell the initial production run.

Thanks to all who sent messages of support and my apologies to those how have been waiting for this keyboard.

Sad ending

unicomp · « **Reply #1 on:** Fri, 18 June 2010, 10:36:43 »

*cancelled

unicomp · « **Reply #2 on:** Fri, 18 June 2010, 10:37:39 »

The board looked very good. Are any selling at all?

British · « **Reply #3 on:** Fri, 18 June 2010, 10:38:35 »

Aye...

And to think I was kinda hoping to make the Miniguru my first tenkeyless (and non-ISO, to boot !).

Buckling_Summer · « **Reply #4 on:** Fri, 18 June 2010, 10:43:48 »

Why? This is not possible to happen. I think than MiniGuru would be the no1 Best Seller.
Everyone in geekhack would buy one for sure.

I hope things will change soon in a good way.

Laggy-gaga · « **Reply #5 on:** Fri, 18 June 2010, 10:50:12 »

I wanna get at least 2.
but..

kriminal · « **Reply #6 on:** Fri, 18 June 2010, 23:51:33 »

dang..... was waiting on this

TexasFlood · « **Reply #7 on:** Fri, 18 June 2010, 23:57:47 »

Bummer, looked nice...

Phaedrus2129 · « **Reply #8 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 00:17:39 »

My reaction:

erricrice · « **Reply #9 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 00:19:56 »

NO way!

Damn, I was really looking forward to that one!

texteur · « **Reply #10 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 00:30:06 »

I was so much waiting for that keyboard to come! It looked like the Holy Grail of keyboards, sweeping away all previous ones. All I have to do now is to take out again my space-saver Model M and weep on it...

Hamburglar · « **Reply #11 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 00:30:52 »

Sigh.

washuai · « **Reply #12 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 01:46:04 »

Quote from: British;194318

Aye...

And to think I was kinda hoping to make the Miniguru my first tenkeyless (and non-ISO, to boot !).

Me too. I wanted one with browns and one with reds.

chimera15 · « **Reply #13 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 02:07:51 »

Quote from: washuai;194582

Me too. I wanted one with browns and one with reds.

How do you make the little keyboards and skull and crossbones?

dz_alias · « **Reply #14 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 02:21:44 »

If I designed a trackpoint keyboard, I'd put the trackpoint between the HJN keys so your hand doesn't have to adjust from the home row, and I would off-center the mouse buttons slightly to the left.

Seems like the only intelligent design to me, really.

isp · « **Reply #15 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 04:12:17 »

/me puts his wallet away....

clickclack · « **Reply #16 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 05:08:49 »

Just in looking through all of these threads one can easily and quickly get an idea of how interesting and interested people were in the miniguru. Wonderful design to say the least.

I hope these threads and posts don't rub anything in too much. If nothing else let them be a showcase to how sweet it was and how it has raised the bar.

=)

GenEric35 · « **Reply #17 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 05:33:49 »

would be interesting to know what turned the tide, maybe something could be learned from it

(X "_____") · « **Reply #18 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 05:40:03 »

That's a real shame, it looked like a near-perfect small form factor board.

Quote from: dz_alias;194592

If I designed a trackpoint keyboard, I'd put the trackpoint between the HJN keys so your hand doesn't have to adjust from the home row, and I would off-center the mouse buttons slightly to the left.

Seems like the only intelligent design to me, really.

I think it's usually between ghb in order to make it usable for right and left handers, but that's certainly a better design if the keyboard is only going to be used by right-handed people anyway.

chimera15 · « **Reply #19 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 06:14:48 »

Quote from: (X "_____");194626

That's a real shame, it looked like a near-perfect small form factor board.

I think it's usually between ghb in order to make it usable for right and left handers, but that's certainly a better design if the keyboard is only going to be used by right-handed people anyway.

What's your avatar from? I don't recognize her?

(X "_____") · « **Reply #20 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 07:03:41 »

Quote from: chimera15;194631

What's your avatar from? I don't recognize her?

Yuno from Hidamari Sketch.

imsto · « **Reply #21 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 08:14:32 »

why？

chimera15 · « **Reply #22 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 08:30:45 »

Quote from: (X "_____");194637

Yuno from Hidamari Sketch.

Ah thanks, I only watched a few eps of that.

maclover · « **Reply #23 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 09:30:09 »

washuai · « **Reply #24 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 11:47:20 »

Quote from: chimera15;194588

How do you make the little keyboards and skull and crossbones?

Unicode codes. Just like you hold down Alt and hit +130 to make a é, you can do the same to make a variety of symbols. Sadly, my reinstallation of Windows at home is missing something, because it isn't showing me my mini keyboards, they look like empty boxes :rant: Or you can just copy and paste the symbols from a source site that talks about them.
Google "How to enter Unicode characters in Windows" to learn additional information and find other sources.

Rajagra · « **Reply #25 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 12:27:43 »

This font might bring your Unicode characters back.

Henry · « **Reply #26 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 13:20:56 »

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2328/fontsupport.htm
DejaVu's glyph looks better, imho.

Brian8bit · « **Reply #27 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 13:46:11 »

That's a damn shame. I really wanted a pink and white one with cherry reds.

The only thing to do now is patent the design, get a lawyer and license it out. Hell, maybe Diatec would buy in for at least a "special/limited edition" run.

spolia optima · « **Reply #28 on:** Sat, 19 June 2010, 15:32:00 »

this ****ing sucks ass. what the ****

Input Nirvana · « **Reply #29 on:** Sun, 20 June 2010, 23:43:39 »

How about offering a DIY type of kit. Or sell the parts? Or the plans? Or the PCB/firmware?

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #30 on:** Mon, 21 June 2010, 00:10:03 »

Quote from: phaedrus2129;194558

my reaction:

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Ass!!!!

clickclack · « **Reply #31 on:** Mon, 21 June 2010, 03:41:32 »

Yeah, that was a pretty lame comment. I read through a number of posts on that link and just found some of it really odd and sometimes sad. =S

Rajagra · « **Reply #32 on:** Mon, 21 June 2010, 05:33:23 »

Quote

I keep seeing all of there mechanical keyboard threads asking questions when all of the general answers are here.

Is he talking about GH? I think he meant 'these' rather than 'their' or 'there'.

J888www · « **Reply #33 on:** Mon, 21 June 2010, 05:35:17 »

"Sticks and Stones may break our Bones but Words ..................."

ch_123 · « **Reply #34 on:** Mon, 21 June 2010, 05:59:53 »

Quote from: ripster;195137

Well, this HardForum Moderator is sure an *******.

About the Miniguru

About Geekhack. He keeps posting wrong info which makes it worse.

Somebody go do some trolling over there.

In said gentleman's mechanical keyboard guide, he has in brackets after the Das "IBM Model M Quality", and yet mentioned neither the Model M or Unicomp.

chimera15 · « **Reply #35 on:** Mon, 21 June 2010, 06:44:31 »

Lowpoly came back as of 2 hours ago..read his thread.

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Author Topic: Miniguru has been canceled (Read 5479 times)