Okay sorry for disapearing for a bit. I have been busy with a lot of stuff lately.
But without further ado, I present to you the Hubble Mira!
sorry i lost my card reader, so potatoes only for now
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okay so here is my unbiased review of the Mira prototype:
things that are great:
- Its undeniably beautiful, i had friends stop by and without knowing what it was thought it was awesome
- The weight is perfect. Not too heavy, not too light.
- The pcb and plate fit great and mount securly to the case
- There is no rattle or shaking in the plate when installed
things that will be fixed:
- The blockers are too tall, so i had to mutilate a couple shift keycaps. Easy fix.
- Minor spacing issues with the escape and left control keys
- USB hole is not large enough and is slightly too far right (about a mm)
- the screw threads are not deep enough on the weight, another easy fix
- The anodizing on the board was done poorly, we have already chosen a different shop, so no worries here
I hope you are excited as I am! Once we confirm the fixes with the shop and nail down our coating options I will announce a start date for the GB!
As far as anodizing we have located a company that has given us very fair prices with the ability to create custom options. Essentialy how it will probably work is that there will be no charge for base colors (Gold, black, blue, green, red, violet, bronze, blue pewter, and titanium), and if there are 10 or more people who want a custom color, they can pay a small amount and we will get it made. Ninjadoc has samples from this shop, so you can see when he posts them what it should look like.
I'm not too sure if you have tested out the prototype with other keycaps such as DSA, SA and Cherry profile keycaps as these keycaps have sharp edge at the bottom.
I noticed the top case curves especially on the insert pgdown clusters, arrow clusters, and the right control, where the corner of the keycaps are very close to the case.
granted that the DCS profile keycaps works without much issue since it has a curve edge at it's bottom.
But my concern goes towards sharp edges keycaps such as the ones mentioned above. I can only estimate as much as what I can see from the picture here. On a separate case, one of CMStorm's latest keyboard has issue with DSA keycaps hitting the corner of the inner case, but Cherry profile keycap has no issue because when compared, the DSA keycaps has a slightly larger bottom edge.