[IC]Revanche - Lightweight focused-No frills F12 Tenkeyless. - More Photos!

[[Lewynlight]]

Revanche < re·vansh> Lit. "Revenge".



Prototype Pics (Lots of details, please watch your bandwidth)
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Aight, I'm not gonna fill this thread with the what the name means.
I will also keep the introduction short. I have been working on this TKL for the last 2 years.

With the feedback that I've gathered from my previous designs, and my experience building & using various kinds of boards, I'll try to provide an endgame-flavored polycarbonate focused keyboard at the lowest possible price.

Why polycarbonate?
Many people prefer to use polycarbonate board for their daily use. polycarbonate is more robust, resilient and of course, pretty to look at if you turn on your PCB's RGB lights. there's so many PCB that offer RGB underglow, but we haven't been able to use it due to our keyboard being all aluminum. feels nostalgic when you first got that B.Face TKL? here's your chance to being able to lit things again.



Specifications
• 5° Degrees Typing angle, 17.xmm Front height , 9 Degree Polycarbonate bottom upgrade available
• Winkeyless/winkey F12 Tenkeyless Layout
• Polycarbonate Chassis (top&Bottom) Frosted color, Thermal Threaded screw on case, Smoked color tentative
• Aluminum Option Available (Top&bottom) - 3 Color (still tentative), Gunmetal Grey, TGR Cyan, Lilac
• Choice of 5051 1.5mm Aluminum Silver Plate, or Copper plate
• 2mm Copper/Stainless/Aluminum Series 7 Acoustic Plate for sound tuning
• Dual mount - Classic top mount or O Ring (trust me this is good)
• 87A PCB compatibility (if your PCB has JST between the Bksp & Insert, it should be compatible. USB C3 Unified daughterboard.
• 1.1kg kit (might varies if you are using copper or aluminum acoustic plate, weighted is with Stainless Acoustic plate)



MOQ 50, Cap at 100.
Price Goals : US$290 / IDR 4,350,000,- / SGD 392,5
for 1 kit, which consisted of;

1 Keyboard chassis set (Top&Bottom)
Series 5 Aluminum switch Plate
Hairline finish Stainless steel Acoustic plate as a default
PCB (solder) & DB
Fixtures & Hardwares
Carrying Case & Cloth

Prototype/FE Typing test by one of the FE buyers who are kind enough to let me post his typing test video to this IC, thanks Fomo.;

To-Do:
more photos soon. sorry for the lack of photos. Updated.
Approach Vendors. I would like to keep this thing to a minimal as I realized that the market situation is not that good. Indonesian shipping is trash. I need to find a lead vendor with easy access to international shipping to save costs.
need to record more typing test
Need to do a typing test with different acoustic material (I want to try wood.)
Need to try a different PCB to test compatibility
lending my board to some content creators.

[[Lewynlight]]

RGB testing on FE unit

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Question & Answer:

Q: That's still expensive.
A: it should be better now.

Q: Vendors?
A: Acid&co (myself) for Indonesian locals. i'm not sure about the rest of the world. lots of locals at my country has expressed interest in this board atm. we will see, please consider this as TBA..

Q: Why are the machining is so apparent at the polycarbonate?
A I used cheap-ish factory to deal with proto because I want to save costs. the production run will be using a higher grade factory. so the quality of the PC and the machining result should be better.

Q: Aluminum?
A: Yes. it's available. please read the specification above.

Q: ISO?
A: for the purpose of maximising the sound profile, feel and reducing SKUs, I will not offer ISO plates. the PCB will be compatible with ISO but you need to make your own ISO plate. Plate are using Jane V2 / RS Cutout, with modified flex cut and feel. the PCB will NOT have any flex cut due to the acoustic drawback they provides.

Q: will you be able to offer Aluminum 9 degree kit?
A: I wish, but sadly i can't, it's too expensive. 9 degree bottom are only available on PC only due to costs of material and machining time.

Q:What inspired you to make this board?
A: Duck Unikorn X Legends. Basically I want to make better UxL, but I went overboard and here we are. this board is also heavily influenced by RS TKL and the OG Jane V2.

Q: Credit?
A: Listed below;

• Yuu/Yuuworks as my 1st CADer. His contribution is greatly appreciated in order to make the O ring good. 
• 2nd CADer TBA.
• Edward / @Edwardtanujayaa - Instagram. His photography skills is insane.
• DYZ as the Prototype/FE PCB Maker. 
• Production PCB Maker TBA 
• also shout out to Duck for the side profile(which sadly is not in the hobby anymore),
• Bisoromi for the plate,
• Bababaul / Paul for the acoustic plate discussion. that was a fun one and I am glad i am able to implement my theory at this board.
• Prototype GB participants which i can't type one by one here.
• and finally, you. if you read all of those wall of text until this point.

[alas]

Looks great!

[Oni]

Very clean looking and would definitely be interested in the Cyan color. Will this board have any internal or external weights?

[lazzuuu]

I love the prototype unit so much, vouch for this! GLWGB!

[stotle.caps]

gl with the GB, really love the proto unit that i tried not too long ago

[HungHingDaiLo]

I can vouch for this board & the runner.
One of (if not,) the nicest PC TKL out there.

Here's my pic of Revanche with my set XMI Matcha Sakura:

[mr_foggy]

Very clean looking and would definitely be interested in the Cyan color. Will this board have any internal or external weights?

this. tgr cyan good

[AshF]

Nice and GLWIC.
Can't consider this myself, no ISO, no go for me.

Sent from my ASUS_I003D using Tapatalk

[FatefulStranger]

Really like the Duck side profile and also cyan good

[Azernith]

 GLWIC

[[Lewynlight]]

Nice and GLWIC.
Can't consider this myself, no ISO, no go for me.

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thank you for your reply and for your interest. if the ISO users are big enough I might be able to make a plate for you guys, probably..

Very clean looking and would definitely be interested in the Cyan color. Will this board have any internal or external weights?

thank you for your interest. at the current state, this board has an acoustic plate inside of the board, which consisted of 2mm metal plate (choice of stainless steel, copper or brass) that also serves as a weight. I already know a way to add an external weight, but the 5 degree kit will be too slim for the weight to be added there. maybe I can do this on 9 degree kit, if you don't mind higher angle of course.



Thank you for the warm replies.

IC form are up, Typing test videos added by one of the prototype owner.
thanks HHDL for the additional photos, I will add my own soon enough.

cheers.

[aicyborg]

I'm in if you reconsider and offer an ISO plate option. I wouldn't mind paying a small premium for it if I had to.

I missed out on polycarbonate Kage so this will probably satisfy that for me.

[Captain Shwah]

nice looking board, the high angle option is

[superjackie]

will join gb if it's heavier and have wkl hotswap pcb.

[paulgali]

Fellow light weight board enjoyer! Coming from Safa, this is a nice option for f12 enjoyers and still want to keep the weight nice and light. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses!

[[Lewynlight]]

nice looking board, the high angle option is

thank you very much!

I'm in if you reconsider and offer an ISO plate option. I wouldn't mind paying a small premium for it if I had to.

I missed out on polycarbonate Kage so this will probably satisfy that for me.

I might be able to make a custom ISO plate. tho please bear in mind that I don't have any expertise in maximising ISO's sound profile, so the plate might sounds different than the ANSI one. i'll try to make it priced reasonable.

will join gb if it's heavier and have wkl hotswap pcb.

Thank you for your interest. Hotswap pcb will definitely be an option since it's the norm right now.
as for the heavier.. it's in the consideration right now. please fill the IC form because I will decide it based on the popular poll.

Fellow light weight board enjoyer! Coming from Safa, this is a nice option for f12 enjoyers and still want to keep the weight nice and light. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses!

thank you very much for your support Paul!


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as for now,
Professional photos are being made. I managed to drop down a price a little bit after some discussion with my factory.
after the photos are done and the assets are considered enough, I will update this IC again and x-post it on reddit as well.

[aicyborg]

I might be able to make a custom ISO plate. tho please bear in mind that I don't have any expertise in maximising ISO's sound profile, so the plate might sounds different than the ANSI one. i'll try to make it priced reasonable.

Honestly, you can adapt an ANSI plate for ISO enter and a split Left Shift area and keep everything else the same, it'll sound just as good as its ANSI equivalent. I appreciate you doing this despite the fact you'll probably sell very few for those of us who do want it.

Good luck and hope the weight stuff works out. I'm good with either weight - I don't pick up my boards.

[beelzking]

Nice lightweight TKL. Usually, I'm not that into low typing degree angle but overall pretty nice lil project. GLWIC 

[MonkRel]

GLWIC. Tested the thing during my trip to the meetup.

It's promising. Subjectively speaking, of course.

[[Lewynlight]]

I added some photos. man, it looks like different IC. Edward helped me took some photos this time. Check it out if you have time; https://www.instagram.com/edwardtanujayaa/?hl=en

oh before someone asked, the one that you see here is all REAL pics, there's no renders at all. I decide not to play with renders in hope of showing my seriousness to this project.

[white_rabbit]

Hey this is a cool project. Not the biggest fan of centred USB but that's pretty minor so you still have my interest

I hope you can get an NA vendor on board - Mekibo is good people!

[aicyborg]

Photos look really good, great progress. I hope you're able to find a good vendor to use for the global GB (please ensure they ship to UK so I can actually buy one).

[yz]

looking good lewyn. the gap between the caps you used look a tad too large though, is that an issue with the caps used?

[marcin_nyga]

looks clean

[fwoggit]

i want

[LaserCrafter]

holy sh*t, someone actually made a great duck inspired board? lowkey sign me up.

[OG_Doubleboobs]

This is fire

[This_Is_BearDog]

9 degree rush rush

[lecorsair]

holy sh*t, someone actually made a great duck inspired board? lowkey sign me up.

Is it really Duck inspired if it's not wrist breaking 11°? (j/k hehe I love my duck board).

[SirYeetWilliams]

I super dig this. Down for GB when the time comes.

[syryan]

I like this. Very nice 

[SirYeetWilliams]

YUSS - GIB KEYBOARD - MONEY IS READY

(pls ship to USA thank u)

[involuntarysoul]

need metal threaded insert, threads in PC wears out in like 2 uses

[[Lewynlight]]

Hey guys.

Thanks for the support. so many things happened since i posted this IC, I will be working with a new designer to improve this even more.
please look forward to it. it might need some time but i'm improving this for the sake of us as well.

Hey this is a cool project. Not the biggest fan of centred USB but that's pretty minor so you still have my interest

I hope you can get an NA vendor on board - Mekibo is good people!

I knew popkorn pretty well, I owe her a lot for the hospitality that she give me during my visit to LA.
I'll talk to her once this project is ready. if she's interested, that will be it!

Photos look really good, great progress. I hope you're able to find a good vendor to use for the global GB (please ensure they ship to UK so I can actually buy one).

9 degree rush rush

YUSS - GIB KEYBOARD - MONEY IS READY

(pls ship to USA thank u)

thanks for the support guys!

I like this. Very nice 

a comment from syryan himself? 
I can die happily now.

need metal threaded insert, threads in PC wears out in like 2 uses

yes, this is a requirement for the PC version.

holy sh*t, someone actually made a great duck inspired board? lowkey sign me up.

I can't compare myself to someone that has a legendary status like Duck.. but i'll do my best.

looking good lewyn. the gap between the caps you used look a tad too large though, is that an issue with the caps used?

probably just the angle of the pic. this is using the standard pcb spacing and the keycaps are GMK (albeit they are newer GMKs, so.. that might be the case as well.)

[white_rabbit]

Still holding out for this