Round 5 and Round 6 kits for sale!

[facetsesame]

If I had more time on my hands, I'd like to see a Poker in a Hammond case!

Specifically, in a 1456PH3BKBU (14" x 8.3", black top, blue sides), you could comfortably fit a Poker's keys on the angled plane, with a generous near inch and a half to spare on each side, and include a top function row / fancy cap display on the flat plane on top. And round it off with some panel indicators. Something like this arrangement could look great with Round 5 caps!

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[spuit]

If I had more time on my hands, I'd like to see a Poker in a Hammond case!

Specifically, in a 1456PH3BKBU (14" x 8.3", black top, blue sides), you could comfortably fit a Poker's keys on the angled plane, with a generous near inch and a half to spare on each side, and include a top function row / fancy cap display on the flat plane on top. And round it off with some panel indicators. Something like this arrangement could look great with Round 5 caps!

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I think that would look really cool.
It could probably hold a pretty sweet Mini/Micro-ATX or Mini-ITX PC along with the keyboard.

My group-buy senses are tingling, I wonder what the MOQ and unit price is on those.

[pyrelink]

If I had more time on my hands, I'd like to see a Poker in a Hammond case!

THAT would be awesome! I love those cases.

[SL89]

If I had more time on my hands, I'd like to see a Poker in a Hammond case!

THAT would be awesome! I love those cases.

add me to the potential list

[Miko]

Like this?



http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/custo ... t2857.html

[solkoseryl]

What a sweet idea!

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[asiangirl]

I tried to PM 7bot with my order in the format on the wiki, how do I know if what I ordered is in stock or if he even got the order?

[chzel]

Welcome, you will soon (maybe tomorrow) get an email from the bot with your invoice!
If you have any questions after you get the invoice, feel free to ask again!

[asiangirl]

Thanks chzel. I'm really excited to get my new caps for the ergodox. I was curious how the production is handled, is there any set end date for when the round5a is going to get shipped out?

[SL89]

Thanks chzel. I'm really excited to get my new caps for the ergodox. I was curious how the production is handled, is there any set end date for when the round5a is going to get shipped out?

The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain

[chzel]

Thanks chzel. I'm really excited to get my new caps for the ergodox. I was curious how the production is handled, is there any set end date for when the round5a is going to get shipped out?

There is not even a set end YEAR! Might be in 2015 though! Patience is a virtue much needed in 7bit's GBs!

[facetsesame]

Like this?
http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/custo ... t2857.html

Now there you go! Those Micro Switch caps look really good, and SP's SA caps aren't too far away from above
The grey is a bit light for Round 5, but the white and blue are perfectly possible - not forgetting the Round 4 SPH bits and pieces that are still around.

7bit, what is the latest from SP on the outstanding Round 5 production and error fixing?

[dotdrew]

Actually there's a good question, when is the deadline to get our orders in for Round 5a? It still says 2015-02-?? on the wiki, will it be soon?

[chzel]

Imagine the deadline written on that wheel of cheese...rolling...

[facetsesame]

As I understood things, Round 5a won't gain an order deadline until it's been placed - which isn't going to happen until SP have shipped all the Round 5 keys to 7bit. I don't know how far away that is - it's for SP to deliver. Once that's done, I'm sure some buffer time will be available to increase order volume... so I'm going to guess you'll have at the very least two months from now to place a Round 5a order. That could of course turn out to be rubbish!

[facetsesame]

The legendary Muirium has just sent me the final two pieces to complete my daft 122 of Round 4 SPH on a G80-2551.

The result is simply too wonderful to contemplate, so here's a peek:

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[Muirium]

That board is more ʎɹɐpuǝƃǝl than I can ever hope to be!

¡¡¡ uoıʇɐɹnʇɐlƃuoɔ

[lefthandedspatula]

Been gone for like 4 months, what'd I miss. Where's my caps

[webwit]

7bot became self-aware. It decided your order's fate in a microsecond, and took the caps itself.

[lefthandedspatula]

7bot became self-aware. It decided your order's fate in a microsecond, and took the caps itself.

I always knew he was up to no good...

[sean4star]

I saw this:

and knew I had to have some.

Close to a year and a couple of hundred euros later and I still don't have any.

Where can I get a cable like that? Very pretty!

[Muirium]

Pexon makes all manner of fancy cables:

http://deskthority.net/vendors-f52/pexo ... ilit=pexon

[AlexJP]

wait wait wait... i get away for a month and there's a HaneyA and a HoneyB GB?
Cream and purple color?

[Halvar]

There's still ample time to order these, don't feel restrained!

[Muirium]

It's been more than a month already too. Typical!

[SL89]

ok, time to start thinking of HoneyB now. silly bot needs to send my old order so i can fill in the spots i missed...

[JohnVenture]

If I had more time on my hands, I'd like to see a Poker in a Hammond case!

I'm not saying this to troll or anything, I understand the attraction for the vintage look. But seriously I see people so dedicated to making unique keyboards and tinkering every detail and yet repeating the same terrible ergonomic mistake of angled keyboards. These are really bad for your wrists! Keyboards should be flat at worse or angled in such a fashion that the wrist line isn't 'broken' when typing at best. Don't take it from me,take it from professionals and save yourself lots of problems later in life!

[Mal-2]

If I had more time on my hands, I'd like to see a Poker in a Hammond case!

I'm not saying this to troll or anything, I understand the attraction for the vintage look. But seriously I see people so dedicated to making unique keyboards and tinkering every detail and yet repeating the same terrible ergonomic mistake of angled keyboards. These are really bad for your wrists! Keyboards should be flat at worse or angled in such a fashion that the wrist line isn't 'broken' when typing at best. Don't take it from me,take it from professionals and save yourself lots of problems later in life!

These aren't mutually exclusive.

I have my keyboard at a slight angle, the normal "back legs down" angle for this model, yet my wrist line is nearly straight. How, you ask? The table is high enough that my elbows are below keyboard level, and my hands are higher. My hands also rarely leave the rest in front of the keyboard — well, except when reaching for the mouse or the cursor pad, obviously. Dvorak really helps with this, I don't have to shift my hands around the keyboard nearly as much as most people do.

[lefthandedspatula]

Flat for me. I can't deal with my coworker propping the legs open on our lab computer. He does the same thing as you mentioned, Mal, with his elbows off the desk. Seem uncomfortable, like the edge of the desk would cut off your circulation and your raised hands would drain the blood out of them.

[facetsesame]

For sure, that case idea is absolutely form over function.

A 15 degree angle is between the short (12 degrees) and tall (18 degrees) foot settings on the old IBM 122s. I've tried this but not for any extended use, at the 18 degree level it's tolerable but does seem extreme. I imagine it was a more useful feature at the time for users transitioning from similar equipment.

And with the Hammond case you'd also have a considerable front height of about 1.5" to deal with. I can see why building the things into the desk (well, desk/terminal/printer/computer) was a real option.

Regardless, for the moment there's little to no danger of me being able to go ahead with this. Eventually I'll be looking into a flatter and shorter cast frame idea which might be more useful and saner.

Beyond that I've been thinking about how a keyboard adjustable to any height and angle could work, something like a pcb assembly frame. Better still, miniature adjustable assemblies for each row. This could be a way to get around the SA-on-straight-stems problem highlighted by jacobolus.

It's easy to suggest ideas, including ones I won't be able to make work.