The Ave. - Group BuyAn Ortholinear Battlestation
Link to Original IC ThreadThe time has finally come people! Its The Ave. Group Buy!! The ultimate, sexy, cute, and powerful, ortholinear-battlestation!So things have changed a lot in the past month or so. Here are some main points of note...
1st:
E-Yellow has been tossed out for options just due to its complicated nature and that I know sometimes it can come out looking more Orange than Yellow. All of us are pretty tough and picky when it comes to colors and without a full and final prototype finished in E-Yellow, I just dont feel comfortable with going through with having it be availible and then people getting upset when it didn't turn out like they expected. No one likes that.
In its place, however, I have spoken with the factory and Sandblasted Polycarbonate will be subsituting the E-Yellow!
Which I know a lot of people wanted and Im excited to be able to offer it for the first big Ave GB! 
2nd: the second notable change is that now, every single base kit configuration will come with
BOTH a full brass Plate set and a full FR4 (PCB Material) Plate Set! Options are nice, but having them distributed all over the place isnt lol. SO NOW YOU GET BOTH SON.
The Group Buy Details:CLOSED https://forms.gle/dsoQzuDKTJafeFFK9[/s]]LINK TO OFFICIAL GB GOOGLE FORMLink Above Goes Live: 11:OO (AM) CST - Friday Dec. 13th • Form will remain open until all spots have been occupied• Limited to x2 Kits Per Person* - If you do want to order 2 Kits, just fill the form out once more and submit your 2nd Kit Options.*(Submission Of More Than 2 Orders will entail the entire order history of the individual being canceled)
• Extras are available for purchase within the same form. • We currently have a soft limit of 45 available spots to be filled after the early-bird supporters joined the GB within the main Ave Discord earlier this week.If it turns out demand is enough though, I will keep the form open and accept up to 100 additional orders. Which is doubtful but I am all for more availability if the people seek it.Estimated Fulfillment of All Orders is April 2020Board and Kit Details:Cost:$355.00 USD + Shipping (Per Kit)Colors:Silver/Clear Anodizing - Semigloss
Sandblasted Clear Polycarbonate - Matte
Rose Gold (Matched to PANTONE 7605 C) - Semigloss
Asphalt Navy (Matched to PANTONE 432 C) - Matte
Sample Anodizing from the Factory:
*Silver Can be Seen In Prototype Photos below.
"Whats in a Kit?"• x1 Ave Aluminum Case (Anodized Or Sandblasted PC) - x1 Top Panel
- x1 Bottom Housing
• x2 Switch Plate Assemblies - x1 Sandblasted Brass Main Switch-Plate (Ortho Or Staggered)
- x1 Sandblasted Brass Top Panel Switch-Plate
- x1 FR4 White Main Switch-Plate (Ortho Or Staggered)
- x1 FR4 White Top Panel Switch-Plate
• x1 PCB Assembly (All Green Soldermask w/Gold Surface Finish) - x1 Ave Main PCB (Ortho Or Staggered)
- x1 Ave Top Panel PCB
- x1 Ave Breakout USB-C PCB
• x60 Switching Diodes (THT)• x1 Rotary Encoder Knob (Sandblasted Brass)[/b]• x1 Cork Base Pad[/b]• x1 JST Cable(Breakout USB)[/b]• x1 Ribbon Cable (Main PCB Interconnect)[/b]• x3 Through-Hole RGB LEDs (w/3D Printed Height Guide)[/b]• x1 Allen Hex Key• Necessary M2 Hardware (Various Lengths)*(Extra Parts And Pieces are an additional cost)Layouts: (Two Different PCBs & Plates)*Note: Full Grid Layout on Ortho Layout
IS SUPPORTED forgot to add that by mistake.
PCBs:Features:• Fully powered and supported by QMK Firmware
• PCBs Designed by me
The Royal• 2 Independent PCBs (I don't like Swiss Cheese)
• Fun, Eye-catching and Efficient layouts + Simple Routing = beautiful PCB
• Gold Plated Stabilizer Mounting Points
• PCB Interconnect (PicoFlex Ribbon Cable) for the separate angled top Panel PCB
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THROUGH-HOLE NeoPixel RGB LEDs for indicators or a wild Christmas party.
• Breakout USB Type-C Daughter Board (Also designed by Me)
• EC11 Rotary encoder located in top left corner. (Can be configured to do anything you wish.)
• Through-Hole Diodes for the Vintage Look and Feel (Soldered buy
YOU)
- There is a lot of satisfaction in putting the time in to building and soldering something that's yours. Makes it all the more worth it
Note:• *
NO IN-SWITCH LEDs (Cleaner PCB and Most of us don't care for it)
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MX-Only(
Colors not accurate - GB Color will be Green with Gold Surface Finish)
Top-Ortho PCB
Bottom-Staggered PCB
Plates:Notable Change made for GB-Simplified Switch cutouts and Modified Top Panel Swtich Plate to face inward for accent in Clear Polycarbonate Case
FR4 Prototype Plates (Color and Mounting Not Accurate) - (GB Color will be White)
The Knob:Will be Sandblasted (UNCOATED) beautiful brass. For the Love of sweet, sweet patina.
CLOSED https://forms.gle/dsoQzuDKTJafeFFK9[/s]]LINK TO OFFICIAL GB GOOGLE FORMRenders:
Renders for
GMK Finer Things by Abec13:
Prototype Pics:
Glamor Proto Pics:
Sound Test:CLOSED https://forms.gle/dsoQzuDKTJafeFFK9[/s]]LINK TO OFFICIAL GB GOOGLE FORMLink Above Goes Live: 11:OO (AM) CST - Friday Dec. 13thCost:$355.00 USD + Shipping (Per Kit)Estimated Fulfillment of All Orders is April 2020 
