Orders close January 2nd 2013 UPDATE #1:Okay, here's what were going to do about the teensy.
For people who have already submitted their order, I'm going to add the same number of controllers as the number of PCBs you put down. The controllers will be $18 for now, and I'll bump it down to $16 if we hit 100.
The low weight of these shouldn't add to shipping costs.
These will be the Teensy 2.0 controller with pin headers pre-soldered to them.
If you have a problem with this, or what a different amount of Teensys than number of PCBs you ordered PM me with changes and I'll make them.
First off, a thank you to jdcarpe to helping me getting this GB rolling, and, of course, to bpiphany for letting us use his Phantom design to run this round 2 GB. I think this is a really cool project for people to build their own custom boards at a reasonable price.
Intro The Phantom PCB is a custom tenkeyless board designed by bpiphany (formally PrinsValium) to be used with the teensy 2 programmable usb controller and a mounting plate.
Main features:
• 1.5x and 1.25x modifiers
• Center stemmed and off-center caps lock
• 7x Cherry spacebars
• ISO and ANSI layouts
• 5 extra keys above the arrow key cluster
• Costar and Cherry stabilizers
• 6KRO over USB
• In-switch LED at caps/scroll lock and Filco style LEDs
• Switch top removal without desoldering
• LED brightness control
• Firmware source code can be used to remap keys
We will be keeping the PCB black with white LEDs like the original GB
What's included1 – Phantom PCB
100 – Diodes
2 – LEDs
2 – Resistors for LEDs
2- LED stand-offs for filco-style LEDs
What you'll need Cherry MX switches
A Teensy 2.0 controller with header pins----Available through his GB for $18 per
Stabilizers (Costar or Cherry)
Mounting plate
----Tools----
Soldering iron
Solder
Wire cutter (or if you’re cheap like me nail clippers)
Desoldering tool/braid (unless you never plan to desolder anything and won’t make any mistakes)
A DMM(or an old school multimeter) is useful to test for continuity, even super cheap ones will work fine
PricingEverything in the “What’s included” section above will cost $35 per board.
ShippingI’ve calculated shipping based on estimated weights of various parts. Shipping boxes are 6 ounces, boards 5 ounces, diodes/leds/resistors are negligible, and 1 ounce extra for packing paper. Price below are calculated from costs from USPS (added $2 to each price to account for cost of packaging materials like boxes, paper, tape, etc).
Domestic (US only)
1 board - $8
2-4 boards - $10
5-8 boards - $12
International
1 board - $12
2 boards - $15
Unfortunately, international shipping is quite a bit more especially once several boards are involved since price hikes happen at 4 ounce intervals as opposed to domestic which increases prices at every pound. For larger orders, PM me and we will figure out the best/cheapest way to ship.
If it is the case that we have a large amount of international orders, it might be beneficiary to find an EU distributer, but for now just take the prices I have posted as the maximum you’d have to pay.
Order form here:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGlZZXBvczFVS0EyMmdoLVJJcUFiZ1E6MQIf you would like to make changes to your order please PM me
Misc stuff:Building instructionsTheProfosist is offering assembly services:
hereTheProfosist is also offering various parts needed for the Phantom that are not included in this group buy. Please refer to the link above
