[GB] GMK Soyamilk | October 1 - November 1 | Anticipated Arrival Aug – Update 3

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GMK SOYAMILK

A refreshing set that’s straight out of your childhood lunch box and afternoon snacks. A heartfelt homage to the soyamilk that we grew up with and remember fondly.
We drew inspiration from a vintage soyamilk drink box from an era long before our time, hoping to provide a throwback aesthetic that resonates with our childhood.

SOYAMILK FOR CHARITY
Because GMK Soyamilk is a food-themed keycap set, inspired by a drink that raised us, we want to use this opportunity and platform to pay back to our heritage, particularly to the elderly in the Asian American community that shaped us into who we are.

As a design team, we are pledging to donate a percentage of our profits towards the charity Heart of Dinner, which has a goal of “nourishing NYC’s East Asian elders with love and food every week”.
Proof of donation will be provided for posterity after the group buy.
If this is a cause that resonates with you, please consider supporting the project or donating towards the charity!

GROUP BUY INFO
We are incredibly excited to finally announce that GMK Soyamilk will be going to group buy on October 1st, 2021 to November 1st, 2021! We will be working with CannonKeys as our lead vendor. Estimated delivery date of the set is Q4 2022.

VENDORS
Soyamilk fans around the world rejoice! We have a few vendors for you, and we are so excited to work with all of them on this project!

United States: CannonKeys
Canada: Mech.Land
Europe: myKeyboard.eu
United Kingdom: Proto[Typist]
Oceania: Daily Clack
China: zFrontier
East Asia: Kibou
Korea: Swagkeys
South East Asia: Monokei

Anticipated fulfillment Q4, 2022

KITS AND PRICING

Basekit - 'the classic' - $131


Novelties - 'hudson store' - $52


Latin Alphas - 'less sugar' - $50


Accent Kit - 'extra straws' - $30



Extensions Kit - ‘snack pack’ - $33



COLLABS

We are excited to share the artisan keycaps that we will have available for this set!

HIBI x Soyamilk artisan keycap:







Monokei x Soyamilk artisan keycap:





RNCables x Soyamilk artisan cables:






RNCables x Soyamilk artisan keycaps:

Check out that straw on the prototype!

IV Works: Av3x Soyamilk

We are pleased to announce our collaboration with IV Works for the release of GMK Soyamilk!
Features of the board will include:
Cream acrylic case
3D milled Soyamilk bottle cap badge
Stainless steel full case bottom
8 degree case angle
Anodized aluminum leaf-spring plate
Isolated plate mount with poron gaskets
Stainless steel hardware
Hot swap PCB with underglow RGB
USB Type C
VIA Compatible
Made in USA

These will be produced in a limited quantity, to be announced later.
Please join the IV Works Discord Server for updates and announcements!










Some of you may remember that our IC had a collaboration with RAMA WORKS.
Unfortunately, this endeavor is no longer viable.

DESKMATS

Slice of Home Deskmat


Milk Carton Deskmat, designed by retainerbox





CONTACT
Please fill out our NEW IC form!
Do you make artisans and want to do a collab? Please give us a shout at studioblb.co@gmail.com
Join us on Discord!

SPECIAL THANKS
NintendoNoNo
Kriegar
IV Works
m1w
ImperfectLink
Chung
Break
Entity.
retainerbox

And a massive thank you to grundlemere for pioneering the Cangjie sublegends for the keyboard community!
As designers of Chinese heritage, we can't express enough gratitude and appreciation for bringing this part of our culture to the hobby.


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Reserved

[HoffmanMyster]

Approved

[_rubik]

Exciting! GLWGB

[dvorcol]

Updated 10/11 numbers

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Hi Everyone, just wanted to say thank you for your support in the first week, the team is blown away and are excited to see that you are all excited for the set like us. Let us begin the second week of group buy!

Also, thank you so much dvorcal for your work, you truly are an asset and wonderful member of the community

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Hi everyone! The raffle for the IV Works Av3x Soyamilk keyboard is now live! For more details and the raffle form, please jump into the IV Works Discord server!

https://discord.gg/Vr9t849tGf

Multiple entries are available for answering trivia questions and providing proof of purchase of GMK Soyamilk from your favourite vendor!

[dvorcol]

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Hi All,

There's a little under 2 weeks remaining in our group buy!
A huge thank you to all who have supported our project or given us encouragement and advice!
We are pleased to announce that we are over 75% of our MOQ for our basekit, and we are confident that the project will be fulfilled.
This is our first group buy, and it has been a huge learning curve, but we have enjoyed every minute of it so far!

Cheers,
studioblb

P.S. 40s users who desperately wanted 40s kits in our IC wya? pls buy the extensions kit or it'll die kthxbai

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Hi Everyone!

There is one week left in our group buy!

As the window closes on the group buy, we would like to extend our eternal gratitude to everyone who has purchased the set.
Our numbers are looking good and we are confident that we will hit MOQ and see this project become a reality!

Thank you all for your support for the project from the beginning, it really means a lot to us.

Cheers,
studioblb

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Best of luck as you head down the home stretch!

[dvorcol]

Edit: revised scale for better comparison

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Best of luck as you head down the home stretch!

Thanks Break! Your blessing and continued support for our set has helped us a lot as we went through this groupbuy!

[dvorcol]

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for your ongoing support We have managed to raise a sizeable chunk to charity and we are super excited to see it go to many many people that will benefit greatly from your support. Also just dropping in to say THIS IS THE LAST DAY FOR THIS GB! Its been a crazy ride and we just wanted to thank you and join you in the coming long wait <3

[dvorcol]

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[Rekzen97]

so excited about this

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Just wanted to pop in here to give the gh page an update on the current situation of the set:

GMK Soyamilk
Status - Waiting on color samples (April 2022)
ETA - Q4 2022


GMK Soyamilk Deskmats
Status - En route to CannonKeys
ETA - April 2022

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Hi everyone, big news!

GMK Soyamilk
Thank you for your patience and wait, we managed to get the colour matching process down to two tries (which we are pleasantly surprised by). GMK got the Cream (RAL1015)  keycap to a ΔE of 0.96 and the Blue (RAL 260 50 25) to a ΔE of 0.53. Find attached the images for your reference. I know we’ve been mostly quietly working on the project, but I would like to think that the results speak for themselves and we are quite happy to share them with you. We hope you are as excited about them as we are too.

So with that being said, we are happy to announce that as of this week, all colour samples for GMK Soyamilk is approved and it is officially in the queue for being manufactured.

NicePBT
Another big update is in regards of NicePBT, we have also been sampling multiple rounds of the keycap set in order to see the variations and fine tune the colour produced. We have gone through rounds of testing and feedback with the aim of getting it ready for launch.

We have decided upon a switch to an icon/text mod for the NicePBT set release. We did it to try something new and also differentiate the PBT set from the ABS one.

In respect to the more affordable pricing and material difference, the tolerances for the colours of NicePBT were greater, but we feel that we have approved the closest looking sample to the GMK colourset. It will be close, but not exact with the GMK set which is spot on with the colour references selected.

With that being said, I think everyone will be happy with this more accessible set in comparison to the GMK one; and we are happy to say that it is now in line for production as well.

More official information will be sent leading up to the release (kitting, price, etc etc), Vendors will be announced, and it will be launching as an instock set. Expect it sometime around Q4 of this year!

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Hi Everyone;

Just dropping in to confirm that we have approved the kitting with GMK and we are currently waiting in the production line for the set to be made. The current anticipated arrival date given to us by GMK is August of 2023!

Also our new project, IV Kanketsu is dropping today! Go check it out:

GB PAGE
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=119706.0

IC PAGE
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=116299.0

[uigofermagic]

Repping my childhood! I hope that I can catch the extras as I missed the GB.

[dvorcol]

Oblotzky's phase 5 of MyKeyboard.eu customer support has started.  Paraphrasing from phase 4:

Orders of this set that were abandoned by MyKeyboard are currently being collected for previous customers first until November 19th, then the set will also be available to the public until November 27.  More info here - https://oblotzky.industries/pages/myleftovers

https://oblotzky.industries/products/gmk-cyl-soyamilk

[Rassles]

i need more latin alphas