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I recently built my own 'end game' keyboard with 7bit's Round 6 caps, when I decided it was time to bring this classic colorway to the realm of cherry keycaps. I've already drawn up the kits I would like to see in the group buy for this set, but these are of course not final. There are still a few question marks to deal with.
It was important to me that the original keyboard can be replicated closely, hence the extra alpha keys, Black Text Modifiers kit and having blue spacebars available separately instead of putting those into the Blue Alphas kit to not make a purchase of them mandatory.
FAQ:
Q: When? A: Depends on how fierce you guys vote! https://www.massdrop.com/vote/GMK-Space-Cadet
Q: Doubleshot? A: Yes, everything. New molds for alphas etc, no half-assing on my watch.
Q: Colevrak kit? A: Due to the secondary APL legends, a Colevrak kit would need 20+ new molds made as well. With Colevrak kits having an MOQ of 100 and only ever having reached that number once with Laser, we're talking about a 30euro (40-45$ or so) extra, making the kit cost 80-90$.
Q: 40% support? A: I'm not quite sure yet how to add 40% support to this set. I don't want to add that many keys to the base kit which already will be costing more than regular. Maybe a separate kit could be realistic.
Q: Blue alphas? A: This was exactly what Bob Ross meant by his famous saying "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.". I always start my renders with one color for all keys, apply the legends and then split off the alphas/accents etc to change their color. So when I saw the entire keyboard in blue, I knew I have to have it.
Q: Blue NorDeUK? A: Blue alphas are the icing of this cake, getting the gray kit to pass MOQ will be struggle enough.
Q: Why text-only modifiers? A: I'm trying to stick to the design of the original where possible, so using Cherry arrows for Tab/Backspace/Return/Shift keys did not seem appropriate to me. Nobody I showed this to even mentioned that those were missing so it appears people like how this looks. I hope you agree!
Q: Colors? A: Custom, I'll have GMK color match BFP from Signature Plastics for the blue keys, Gray is closest to GD which I had them mix already for GMK Oblivion alphas so I'll probably be reusing that as well. Legends are TBD, probably N9 (near black) and CP (off-white).
Q: Price? A: I can't say for sure, but let's do some napkin math. GMK Red Samurai Base Kit has 164 keys, this has 162 keys, so the price of the keys themselves would practically be identical. However we have 36 new molds that need to be made, each costing 150€, a total of 5,400€/6600$. So if we took the prices from GMK Red Samurai that's on Massdrop right now and added this cost we end up with 500:143$/1000:127$/1500:115$. But again, napkin math. 500:149$/1000:129$/1500:119$ is a good guess though IMO.
Special thanks to t0mb3ry for turning the Symbols (roman numerals and hand signals for the Symbols kit) into vector format and Chyrosran22 for supplying high resolution photos to work off of!
Thank you for reading,
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Jun 23, 2020
What does it take to bring this back in production? If not i will get the closest match from banggood
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Jul 15, 2020
chevronx Kemove 61 Shadow.. off to work..
Gorbag
27
May 18, 2019
I'd be interested in a real space cadet clone, or something like the Symbolics version. But that's going to need more than just keycaps! http://xahlee.info/kbd/iold51593/symbolics_keyboard_pn_365407_348de.jpg

http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/SpaceCadet1.jpeg

themartinc123
7
Aug 19, 2018
I am kind of new to keyboards, are these SA profiles?
themartinc123Cherry profile, produced by GMK in Germany.
Dizz_cz
26
Jul 30, 2018
@Oblotzky What you think about add one more 1.25u R4 keycap? Because if I replace Caps Lock 1.75u R3 with Control 1.75u R3, so need some any more 1.25u R4 keycap, because I don't want 2x left Control. So 1.25U R4 keycap with Caps Lock/FN/Menu/blank/... anything will be fine.
Yep there is extra Hyper, but i want use this as Menu/FN and Meta instead left Alt because emacs use this. :-)
If I'm only one with this problem, forget it.
PoisonOak
57
Jul 29, 2018
I know I'm in the minority, but I really love the GMK 9009 Planck kit I got through Dixie Mech and wish the same option were available for some of these other great designs. Regardless, I'm looking forward to either the base or ergopreonic kits. Looks great!
Jino74
832
Jul 23, 2018
August is right around the corner and I'm eager for this drop, then i remembered that it'll be well into 2019 before i get these caps in my hands. *sigh*
BlueCrowned
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Jul 23, 2018
Needs some space themed novelties
BlueCrownedNot really. The name might be misleading, this doesn't have anything to do with space really. It is a set based on the original Space Cadet keyboard by Symbolics.
RoostyPls
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Jul 9, 2018
Heyyyy any updates on this set? I need it! 😬
Jino74
832
Jun 29, 2018
I'm hoping this will drop immediately after the keycap recap and canvas GB. *crossing fingers*
Jino74SA Green Screen is next for July :) but it won't be much longer!
Jino74
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Jul 2, 2018
OblotzkyJuly is going to be a longggg month then! :D
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