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Melody65 Standard
Melody65 FE soldout
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Hello everyone! Finally the Melody65 GB is about to start. This is a design from me, inspired by the old Melody96, requested by Dion
Also KBDFans will host it, produce and handle the after-sale.
Release Info:
LIVE NOW, Available only at KBDfans
500 Base Kits Available
25 Founders Edition Kits Available
GB Ending: 20 November, or before if limit reached
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Price:
$239 USD - For the Standard Kit
$349 USD - For the Founders Edition Kit (Full Brass Bottom) Gone in less than a minute
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What included in the kit:
Standard Kit - 500 units (start at $239)
- Aluminium/Polycarbonate Top Housing (pc top can be matched only with pc bottom)
- Aluminium/Polycarbonate Bottom Piece (pc bottom can be matched with both the top)
- Aluminium/Polycarbonate/Brass Plate
- Custom KBD67 V2 (QMK and supports VIA)
- Matte Brass Weight, coated
Founders Edition Kit - 25 units(start at $349)
- Aluminium Top
- Matte Brass bottom, coated
- Aluminium/Polycarbonate/Brass Plate
- Custom KBD67 V2 (QMK and supports VIA)
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Renders and colors
https://imgur.com/a/58DsVqa
Real photos
https://imgur.com/a/XjSsF5g
Real colors
https://imgur.com/a/Kny1xDf
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Supported Layouts
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Upgrades:
- PC plate (upgrade from alu to pc plate is free)
- Brass plate (+$17)
- Hotswap pcb, has rgb per switch on top (+$15)
- Foam Plate (+$7)
- Foam Case (+$7)
- E-white top (+$16)
- E-white bottom (+$16)
- E-white plate (+$7)
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Extra:
- PC plate ($18)
- Alu plate ($18)
- Alu e-white plate ($25)
- Brass plate (+$35)
- Hotswap PCB ansi, rgb per switch on top(+$49)
- Universal PCB solder multi-layout, rgb underglow (+$34)
- Foam Plate (+$7)
- Foam Case (+$7)
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Other Info
- Composition: Full alu keyboard available, Full Polycarbonate keyboard available, a mix between Alu and Polycarbonate available
- Typing Angle: 7 degrees
- Mount: top mount
- PCB: Hotswap OR Standard Solder, all VIA compatible. Also a daughterboard Type-C
- Box: There will be a nice custom magnetic box
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Approx weight (some combination):
- Alu bottom / alu top / brass plate : approx 2.6 Kg / 5.7 lbs
- Brass bottom (FE) / alu top / brass plate: approx 5.2+ Kg / 11.5 lbs
- PC bottom / alu top / alu plate: 1.7 Kg / 3.7 lbs
- Full Polycarbonate, no idea
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Colour Options
- E-White
- Black
- Dark gray
- Silver
- Dark Purple
- Burgundy (Red-Dark Red)
- Navy Blue (Dark Blue)
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Notes:
- Note that the keyboard is very high and big, about 25mm from front, but we are working to make it 2-3mm lower in height. We still suggest to use it with a wrist rest, final should be around 21-22mm height
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Other Photos/Details
More Photos From When the Sample was Being Produced
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Underglow/RGB ExamplesNote 1: Photos of the bottom showing rgb are with an acrylic bottom, but we changed that to Polycarbonate bottom. Acrylic was dumped
Note 2: PCB showed is just a prototype pcb, not the final one most likely
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|Would like to thank Raz for the renders and CCC italian community for the support
Jkaos
EDIT:
Some people from EU contacted us showing messages or mails by Fedex asking custom fees and shipping coming in the next days. Hold on for a moment:
- It is a Group buy, you won't get anything shipped before 5-6 months
- Regarding the message that someone got from Fedex, ignore it, it was a mistake of an auto-generated tracking number, it isn't happening anymore on new orders
UPDATE: 6 November 2020 GB went very well and it will close soon
Last time we checked we had 30 orders missing to reach the limit, we should check again in few hours.
As announced, i wanted to announce final dimensions since many asked, but also to make some improvements and here we are!
(please don't refer at the colors of the renders below, also what is showed is the founder but these modfications are for the standard kit too)
Plates and mounting points changelogs (improved): We were bothered by the many screws (16 before) and few people also noticed it. Our goal was always to remove some of them, but the problem was that the design had the whole plate touching directly the top and the plate was bigger than the top.
In a nutshell, just "removing screws" with the old internal top mount structure wasn't enough. With the plate in direct touch with the top on a big area, removing screws would have lead to more vibrations (basically plate hitting/vibrating/flexing against the case), ending by making the sound worse. Yeah in that scenario, sturdy with many mount-points was better than flex with few mount-points for the sound, due the large area of contact between top and plate.
So we changed it internally. We added spacing on the internal of the top-case where the ends of the plate sits. By doing so, the plate started to have contact with the top of the case ONLY on the mounting point, reducing any kind of bad sound from the plate flexing and vibrating on the top case.
Basically we removed to the minimum any sort of contact between plate and top (the minimum is only the mounting point), which should be the ideal solution in a top mount keyboard. Once we did that, was pretty clear that removing the unnecessary screws was simple at this point and it would have been the best solution. At this point we also removed the side screws and also repositioned the mounting point in "smarter areas" (e.g. making the spacebar more free as possible from screws).
After alll the changes, we ended up with a better mounting, a better typing experience (especially on flexy materials like PC and alu as well), and in general more flex and less vibration.
Ended up having 8 final mounting points (also changed the mount from m2 to m2.5)
The improved mount system:
Modified plates here, also included some relief cuts, these won't do much but still, here we go:
Keeb size and height: The keyboard was finalized so i can realease the current sizes,
should be final now.
I adjusted the height slightly, around 2.5mm lower in height but also made all the sides 1mm thicker, in the image below you can find the final dimension (i also included flat and angled dimension). It should be totally easier to use now and also improve the sound (no waste of empty space internally).
Still a wrist rest is recommended unless you have big hands!
Founder logo: The Founder logo was smoothed out, cuz why not...
Back Type-C hole: Given how Type-c connects with cables, if the back of a keyboard is totally flat with the connector, the cable would always show some part of his "male-part" from the very top of the keyboard.
It was made a small recession-hole to make the cable more aesthetic once connected
Screws: All the screws of the keyboard are now m2.5, Founder is sure to include gold colored screws (probably titanium screws, plated in a gold color, not brass screws because these are too soft).
For standard we will see!
PCB: Since many asked, the PCB showed on Taeha Types stream wasn't the final PCB, it was just a prototype PCB.
The hotswap PCB will be some kind of KBD67MKII (v2), while we must still understand which will be the exact final Standard PCB.
Also ESD should be included with both the PCBs, but we will make sure to confirm this with Wei again (we should ask him again at this point).
