About Hi, I'm $W4GK!NG, it has been over 2 years since I started this hobby, this is my first keyboard project.
I saw a Kmac Mini, I instantly fell in love, so I made this board, the naming sake and color choices are some weeb **** no one probably cares about.
Latest Update GB Date has been confirmed, Liberi GB will be running starting from July 22nd 2022 to August 5th 2022
There will be 4 vendors avail
- Ashkeeb (covers the NA area)
- KEYGEM (covers EU and UK)
- HexKeyboard (covers SEA and Asia in general)
- Acid & Co (covers Indonesia)
Price per keyboard will be $545.00CA / €500.00 (incl. 19% VAT) / $589SG / 6,299,00Rp respectively with 100MOQSpecification - Material: 6063 Aluminium and Brass Weight
- Color: Anodized Blue or Grey with Coated Sand Blasted Weight
- Plate: Sandblasted Polycarbonate with MX Cutout (Alps plate will be available later)
- PCB: Solder only with Alps support using an ai03's daughterboard
- Typing angle: 6°
- Width: 358mm
- Front Height: 22mm adjusted
- Weight: 1664g unbuilt
- Mounting: Top mount
- Layout: Refer to the picture below
Colors 
The 2 colors are RAL 5000 and RAL 7011.
As mentioned before, the color choices were based on some weeb stuff, I'm not gonna bore yall with that
Prototype & Iteration Prototype Album I don't have the means to get another prototype in a different color at the time so you will have to forgive me on that, but anyway, this blue prototype was built in the most basic of all layouts.
I typed on that for a month and I don't like how muted the spacebar was so I decided to add some acoustic cut on the spacebar area both on my prototype and the model.
And I ended up in-filling the front engraving with acrylic paint.
For the actual run, there is some amount of change compared to the prototype unit, the case wall size has been reduced and the wall that separated the xt column has been thickened a little, I also added a chamfer all around the bottom case and the seam, and also the plate height from plate to top case is increased from 7.5mm to 7.8mm so that keycaps other than GMK will not float.
Anyway here's a sound test of the first build of the prototype unit, without the spacebar cut yet.
Pricing, Availability & Vendors Ideally, I would love this to be around $450US + Shipping at around 100 MOQ + a few FNF units, Time frame is probably Q2 Q3 2022, still have to finalize the stuff about vendors. Reminder that with more vendors and higher interest, I might be able to run this with a higher MOQ and that will definitely lower the price.
Price per keyboard will be $545.00CA / €500.00 (incl. 19% VAT) / $589SG / 6,299,00Rp respectively with 100MOQ
Confirmed Vendors
-Hex.Keyboard (SEA)
-Ashkeeb (NA)
-Acid & Co. (ID)
-KEYGEM (EU)
Special Thanks Bachoo - Literally everything, from teaching me the design basic to CAD and ****, thank you :peepolove:
CrazyAssMonkey - Thank you for answering all my dumb Fusion question
Bababaul - Thank you for the feedback and all the info that I probably would never have if it weren't for you
Founder role on my discord - Thank you for supporting me all this time, thank you
Update Log 5 Feb 22 - Posted the IC
6 Feb 22 - Added Change Log and more entry under prototype section
6 Feb 22 - Added Exploded View image
9 Feb 22 - Ashkeeb and Acid & Co. came on board!!
10 Feb 22 - KEYGEM Joined in :salute:
3 Feb 22 - Second prototype has been ordered
17 Jul 22 - GB Date has been annouced
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