Author Topic: [IC] Ultimate ISO – A gasket acrylic 40% with 4 ISO | Keyset Updates (Read 29089 times)

Patryk · « **on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:00:48 »

ULTIMATE ISO By TapTap

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Ultimate ISO is a gasket-mounted stacked acrylic 40% keyboard with 4 ISO enters for those people who need more than one enter on their keyboard for whatever reason.

Features:

Made out of high quality perspex acrylic
5 degree typing angle
Laser-cut Feet
Custom daughterboard for easy assembly
Centered USB-C port
Poron gasket-mounted plate
South-facing PCB with 5 pin support designed by me
Underglow breakout for addressable LEDs
Planned support for QMK, Via and Vial firmwares
Weighs about 800 grams without the additional metal back weight

Backstory:
A friend of mine made this layout as a joke in a discord server. We then played around with that idea and made up the final layout options. Because I had nothing to do (and wanted to procrastinate studying for my exams), I started making that meme into an actual keyboard for fun over the past 2 months or so. I totally didn't spend way too much of my time on this.

Case options:
Base keyboard:

Stacked acrylic case in one of 3 colours (all frosted): Transparent, Grey and Azure blue.
A soldered or kailh hotswap (fixed layout) PCB
A FR4 or polycarbonate plate (might consider more options)

Add-Ons:

Extra PCB in either hotswap or soldered variant
Extra plate
Extra gasket strips

Metal Weight Add-on:
There will be an option to purchase an additional weight (put in place of the acrylic backpiece) made out of brass.

Weight Render:

Layouts:
Hotswap:

Soldered:

Pricing:
The current target price for the base keyboard is 100£/140$.

Color Swatches:
The colors of the cases have been finalized:
Pictures:

More

Updated the blue due to availability

Updates:

The third colour will be ~~azure blue~~ Arctic blue (changed due to availability)
Prototypes Have been ordered
We now have North America and Canada vendors!
Changed the design to be easier to manufacture. Expect new renders soon™
Weight will be brass since 60% of people that filled in the IC form voted for that option
Updated Gmk Enter to Pbt enter, Removed Bae and added BoW
Updated Hotswap pcb
Added Eloquent clicks as EU vendor finally

Vendors:
UK: KeebCats
EU: Eloquent Clicks
NA: KeebsForAll
CA: Ashkeebs
Asia: TBD
OCE: TBD
Please contact if interested.

Q&A:
Q: Why
A: Why not?

Q: Is this a meme?
A: No.

Deskmat:
TBA

Renders:
Big thanks to Frostykoala for making these renders:
https://gmknightlight.com
https://instagram.com/keebsbyfrosty

Frosted:

More

Tinted Froted:

More

Design information:

More

Pcb
Hotswap

Soldered

Case internals

Plate (May be changed in the future)

Side view

Open source:
The case files and the plate files will be provided after the GB has shipped.
The pcb gerbers and manufacturing files will be provided too.

PBT Enter:
This is an initial idea of the PBT Enter set that will be an optional add-on sold alongside to the keyboard
Big thanks to Dudeship for rendering these

Updates
These are now going to be made out PBT and not GMK
Added BoW set

Current Todo list:
Wait for prototypes
Sort out vendors
Start GB

Acknowledgements:
Firstly, big thanks from the lovely people in the KeebCats discord server for helping me out with this during various stages of the design and putting up with me in general (sorry Drunken).
Another big thank you to Kawesky and Sj for some feedback and being nice dudes.
Also thanks to Noah for proofreading this.

Kokaloo · « **Reply #1 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:01:26 »

let's ****ing go

of_sam · « **Reply #2 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:01:39 »

Now this is a design I can get behind.

Fe · « **Reply #3 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:03:31 »

pat please stop

hali · « **Reply #4 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:04:13 »

this is great, can this be sold alongside some iso enters

Neely_12 · « **Reply #5 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:05:55 »

I love this lol. If the price is right I might have to cop. Good luck!

Ella · « **Reply #6 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:09:22 »

i am a slut for ISO

drunken_sailor · « **Reply #7 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:10:16 »

Bub · « **Reply #8 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:10:50 »

i like this design, but i'd like to see more ISOs. Is that an option?

hzsh · « **Reply #9 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:13:49 »

They say that the more enters one has the better they are. This backs up that theory with strength.

Sleepdealr · « **Reply #10 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:25:14 »

IsOwO

Zakar1ya · « **Reply #11 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:28:17 »

I've needed this my entire life, thank you

dededecline · « **Reply #12 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:29:40 »

You guys always kill me because it's like you come up with a funny idea for a keyboard meme product and then someone spends actual effort mocking it up or making a CAD model and then someone decides to actually make it and you spend real money on it because nobody had the sense to just say "this is actually stupid" somewhere along the way.

I'll take two.

frostykoala · « **Reply #13 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:31:51 »

i am glad for this

norb · « **Reply #14 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:31:58 »

first and only 40% i would ever buy.

cest73 · « **Reply #15 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:42:06 »

Does it support planck layout?

qpockets · « **Reply #16 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:44:52 »

Like it or not, the world needs this.

i'm in

Envious · « **Reply #17 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:46:50 »

"Q: Is this a meme?"
"A: No."

hmmm well ISO IS superior

JQ27 · « **Reply #18 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:58:51 »

I'm in.

WQ · « **Reply #19 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 15:21:35 »

as a 40% user I'm actually quite interested, but how tf am I supposed to pay for four ISO enters if they're not random keycaps from aliexpress that don't match the keyset I want?

kidpid · « **Reply #20 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 15:43:57 »

Quote from: WQ on Thu, 24 June 2021, 15:21:35

as a 40% user I'm actually quite interested, but how tf am I supposed to pay for four ISO enters if they're not random keycaps from aliexpress that don't match the keyset I want?

I think the idea is the meme it up with the leftover ISO Enters that you wouldn't otherwise use (assuming you're an ANSI or smol enter user).

Fraaaan · « **Reply #21 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 16:02:03 »

This makes my pants tighter.

Joojeh · « **Reply #22 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 16:06:48 »

ISO to the moon

MIGHTY CHICKEN · « **Reply #23 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 16:15:07 »

what the ****, I want one

keeganzero · « **Reply #24 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 16:29:57 »

You may not like it, but this is what peak ISO looks like.

Laur · « **Reply #25 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 16:36:03 »

how can you not buy this? too good, well done pat.

Pyroo · « **Reply #26 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 18:18:53 »

This is extremely baller GLWIC

Nuclear Nachos · « **Reply #27 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 18:22:45 »

unironically good

vheissu · « **Reply #28 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 19:14:41 »

Just take my monies

novelflyer · « **Reply #29 on:** Thu, 24 June 2021, 19:22:39 »

We need a base kit with 4 ISOs now.
I'm in.

Havattack · « **Reply #30 on:** Fri, 25 June 2021, 14:11:33 »

Add a number row, and a F row, and ANOTHER 2 ISO keys!!!
6 ISO KEYS!!!!!!

Minahctrl · « **Reply #31 on:** Fri, 25 June 2021, 14:36:54 »

NEEDS MOAR ISO!!!!

LaserCrafter · « **Reply #32 on:** Fri, 25 June 2021, 21:28:59 »

this is for those who missed out on the illuminati iS0 GB and i am all here for it

euphxenos · « **Reply #33 on:** Sat, 26 June 2021, 03:00:03 »

You know, if you got rid of all those unnecessary alphas you could fit some more ISO enters in there.

blur410 · « **Reply #34 on:** Sat, 26 June 2021, 03:21:40 »

This looks awesome. When I have the money and this is in GB id totally go for it.

hayasaka · « **Reply #35 on:** Sat, 26 June 2021, 13:40:33 »

this is wicked

blacksimon · « **Reply #36 on:** Sun, 27 June 2021, 10:53:40 »

Simone smashu

Wazazaby · « **Reply #37 on:** Tue, 29 June 2021, 04:24:28 »

croissant

Cowmovie4 · « **Reply #38 on:** Tue, 29 June 2021, 14:49:57 »

I love 40's because just the dumbest **** will come out, and ill see it and i think, huh, that's about the worst layout ive ever seen

I want one, I'm not memeing I genuinely want one, I'll keep an eye out for these in GB GLWIC!

euphxenos · « **Reply #39 on:** Wed, 30 June 2021, 00:02:32 »

Discord says the invite link in the OP is invalid. Could you please provide an updated invite?

Patryk · « **Reply #40 on:** Wed, 30 June 2021, 06:21:46 »

Quote from: euphxenos on Wed, 30 June 2021, 00:02:32

Discord says the invite link in the OP is invalid. Could you please provide an updated invite?

Sorry for that, should be fixed now hopefully

Patryk · « **Reply #41 on:** Wed, 30 June 2021, 15:51:18 »

Added the often requested keycap kit section

Fraaaan · « **Reply #42 on:** Wed, 30 June 2021, 16:15:55 »

bigass enters let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Ella · « **Reply #43 on:** Thu, 01 July 2021, 02:24:08 »

Enter kits

cest73 · « **Reply #44 on:** Fri, 02 July 2021, 11:28:05 »

Quote from: Patryk on Wed, 30 June 2021, 15:51:18

Added the often requested keycap kit section

what's the footprint on those BAEs? what are the stab blueprints?

treypop · « **Reply #45 on:** Fri, 02 July 2021, 15:21:49 »

I've been wanting someone to make GMK big ass enter keys since I joined the hobby. What style of BAE are you going to go with?

hottrout · « **Reply #46 on:** Sat, 03 July 2021, 03:51:35 »

Does it support UK, US, Norde and Jpn ISO?

Yes sir ... yes it does and all at the same time.

Sturmtiger · « **Reply #47 on:** Sun, 11 July 2021, 13:15:42 »

BAE heck yeah, count me in for those alone even!

Ella · « **Reply #48 on:** Mon, 12 July 2021, 10:02:24 »

Quote from: cest73 on Fri, 02 July 2021, 11:28:05

Quote from: Patryk on Wed, 30 June 2021, 15:51:18
Added the often requested keycap kit section
what's the footprint on those BAEs? what are the stab blueprints?

It's like an ISO enter with the 1u key to the left. Makes it compatible with ISO keyboards

misononyan · « **Reply #49 on:** Sat, 24 July 2021, 21:35:09 »

goated

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