Call to France! /dev/tty may be coming to you

matt3o · 22 Feb 2018, 12:10

Okay we are working on the second drop of /dev/tty keycaps. Hopefully this time there won't be hiccups, but you never know with Massdrop.

ANYWHO! I would like to finally add the French kit to the set but I'd need to know what would be the interest in such a thing. I believe we would need to sell at least 25-ish of them.

So, spread the word, contact your local communities and make some noise if you want to see this happening.

Thanks!

Shihatsu · 22 Feb 2018, 12:44

Are we talking /dev/tty round 2 or are we talking mt3 drop 2? Will Massdrop get there shit done this time? Just curious, sorry for OT...

matt3o · 22 Feb 2018, 12:58

technically it's /dev/tty1 (being 0-based it's the second drop). I don't know what MD will do, but if they don't keep me in the loop I don't think I will keep working with them.

ramnes · 22 Feb 2018, 13:25

I personally do not use AZERTY but I know that several folks on HFR do and might be interested.

DarKou · 22 Feb 2018, 21:34

ramnes wrote: ↑I personally do not use AZERTY but I know that several folks on HFR do and might be interested.

+1

I'm French but I only use ANSI-US layout

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For the second round you will add Cyrillic layout again?

remaille · 22 Feb 2018, 22:05

ramnes wrote: ↑I personally do not use AZERTY but I know that several folks on HFR do and might be interested.

Hello from HFR .o/

I'm sure there would be some interest from french keyboard enthusiasts ! AZERTY custom sets are extremely rare, that would be really nice to see more of them

matt3o · 23 Feb 2018, 12:51

remaille wrote: ↑Hello from HFR .o/

I'm sure there would be some interest from french keyboard enthusiasts ! AZERTY custom sets are extremely rare, that would be really nice to see more of them

do you think we could pull 20-25 orders?

DarKou · 23 Feb 2018, 13:09

matt3o wrote: ↑
remaille wrote: ↑Hello from HFR .o/

I'm sure there would be some interest from french keyboard enthusiasts ! AZERTY custom sets are extremely rare, that would be really nice to see more of them
do you think we could pull 20-25 orders?

Not sure...

They are not many French people with ISO-FR layout and mechanical keyboards enthusiasts...

And a big parts of this people says "what? 150€ for a set? You're crazy man!"

lossendae · 23 Feb 2018, 20:32

Ah i didn't see this post. Would be interested for at least two sets if ISO FR is made.

loulou · 24 Feb 2018, 19:45

Bonjour,
I would be very pleased to buy one or plus if made possible.
friendlyship to all from france.
Loulou

matt3o · 24 Feb 2018, 19:57

can any ISO-FR user suggest a real keyboard I can take inspiration from?

Is this legit?

Myoth · 24 Feb 2018, 20:01

yes this is as good as it gets, people might complain because it's not Belgian but that's what most people use so use this one

Puree · 24 Feb 2018, 20:03

Sorry to bother but what the price for a kit, will be belgian ISO available if 25kits is fulfilled ? Can we merge the FR/BE ?

Cheers

Luna · 25 Feb 2018, 00:04

Belgian here but ANSI US only. Azerty would drive me nuts.

chuckdee · 25 Feb 2018, 02:49

It's live on Massdrop already

https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x ... keycap-set

matt3o · 25 Feb 2018, 09:26

we will be adding more kits in a week or so. So keep an eye on it, my merovingian friends.

Luna · 25 Feb 2018, 09:53

matt3o wrote: ↑we will be adding more kits in a week or so. So keep an eye on it, my merovingian friends.

Adding more kits to the Massdrop?
May I ask what the terms in the name imply? Dev/tty, MT3 while these keycaps are generally referred to as HiPros otherwise.

matt3o · 25 Feb 2018, 11:18

MT3 is the profile name, it just comes from my nickname. Hi-profile is a generic name for taller keycaps, but it doesn't identify them to any specific shape. Since we designed a completely new shape we gave it a new name.

/dev/tty is pronounced "device terminal", it's just because hi-pro keycaps come from old (terminal) keyboards

Luna · 25 Feb 2018, 11:28

matt3o wrote: ↑MT3 is the profile name, it just comes from my nickname. Hi-profile is a generic name for taller keycaps, but it doesn't identify them to any specific shape. Since we designed a completely new shape we gave it a new name.

/dev/tty is pronounced "device terminal", it's just because hi-pro keycaps come from old (terminal) keyboards

Thans, starting to make sense!

I searched through the wholoe Wiki yestrday night but couldn't really find it.
I ordered a few sets yesterday, they'll make for some nicely recapped keyboards!

tbe · 27 Feb 2018, 22:10

matt3o wrote: ↑we will be adding more kits in a week or so. So keep an eye on it, my merovingian friends.

Anything besides French layout? I'm only asking for beige Hyper/Meta/Symbol triplet for the mod row and symbolic replacements for Print Screen, Scroll Lock, Pause/Break - a camera, padlock, and coffee cup =)

Woovie · 27 Feb 2018, 22:18

Im with The here, got some compatibility problems. I expressed my concern for this on mass drop but I figured I would drop by this thread as well as it's a little less polluted. I'm requesting that a row 0 end key is added. I did not see it in any of the kits that currently exist.

It could be something that you're already aware of but I just wanted to be sure because I don't like having a random key different than the others. At the moment I'm just using the /dev/tty0 key as the placeholder. In my picture you'll also see I'm lacking 2.25u shift and 1.5u ctrl/alt, but I just missed that I needed the two other kits to fix that.

Thanks for bringing such a great profile to life.

Puree · 04 Mar 2018, 20:04

@matt3o : hey, any news?

Will it be possible to have a blank base set too? If no ISO FR or/and BE sets, will probably go for a blank set but have to buy 7xmini blank sets to fill a TKL layout

Cheers

matt3o · 05 Mar 2018, 15:20

we sold very few intl kit, that's a kind of testament to other ISO kits.

but we can work on a blank kit. I'll talk to MD

Puree · 05 Mar 2018, 17:04

matt3o wrote: ↑ but we can work on a blank kit. I'll talk to MD

Thx

lossendae · 05 Mar 2018, 17:11

Ah, that's not really surprising. Too bad.

I guess i should plunge deeper in the keyboard and switch to an ansi layout. Or rage quit out of frustration and go back to cheap dome keyboards altogether

Thanks for the effort @matteo

Luna · 05 Mar 2018, 18:45

I have been refusing to use AZERTY for over 30 years now, I think that layout, certainly with the number only reachable with shift, is horrible.
Of course, if you’re French speaking it’s hard to do without since with that layout you can access the accented characters easily.
I am a Dutch speaking Belgian and here people use AZERTY which is no use at all for typing in Dutch, hence why I use QWERTY just like the Dutch do but I decided to go with the ANSI version rahter than the ISO version of QWERTY long ago just like I decided to use my OSes, devices and all software in English instead of Dutch.

lossendae · 06 Mar 2018, 14:11

I'm looking on the other kits stats, and some of them sells even less than the international one.

ISO kits suffers because there are no real interests in the community. There are no real interests in the community because there are basically little to no ISO kit avaiiable...

@matteo, is it possible to contact the manufacturer for custom order with this kit ?

Lanza · 22 Mar 2018, 12:37

:'(

What about a blank kit, and pre-printed sublimation sheets for intl layouts ? Is this feasible ?
We could try to "dye sublimate" it ourselves by hand... I've seen a GH topic about it. What keeps me back is the cost of sublimation printers.