Release First prodcution samples of Pandora keymat

[mfk]

Hi all,

You can check our official blog for the brand new pictures. More to come later!

 

[quartercast]

Nice... Why is the "Y" in QWERTY not baseline aligned to the rest of the letters?

 

[gruso]

Weeee!

 

[Mithrildor]

Awesome blog update. Too bad it isnt a keyboard with the shiny coating, I still like it anyway.

 

[Polossatik]

I would then expect the N to be raised also.

Y/N?

 

[Mithrildor]

2 Questions:
-Why is the Y so high (not that its a big problem for me)
-How can switch to Fn Lock (shift + Fn?)

 

[joa]

what a pleasant surprise!!

 

[quartercast]

I would then expect the N to be raised also.

Y/N?

Hahaha, true dat

 

[Shaun199three]

Nice... Why is the "Y" in QWERTY not baseline aligned to the rest of the letters?

I hope the open pandora team don't do anything about this because I don't want another delay.

 

[joa]

Nice... Why is the "Y" in QWERTY not baseline aligned to the rest of the letters?

I hope the open pandora team don't do anything about this because I don't want another delay.

I doubt that it would cause any delays - These are production samples after all.

 

[renegadechic]

i think the D looks slightly out of position too.

still, they look fantastic

 

[lingenfr]

I thought the Pandora logo was going to be a spinning hologram? Good show.

 

[Bronek]

EvilDragon - well done and thanks for your work on this! I like the layout a lot

 

[hells_dark]

Great.

I just want my pandora, i don't care about the keyboard layout anymore ^^'

But it looks very nice

 

[polyroy]

What seems to have gone wrong here is that they delivered the keyboard symbols cropped to the image inside, instead of having a consistent size. So, when you center each image on the center of the key, those with low heights (such as Y_) are offset to the center (as opposed to U*v for example). You can see this for almost every symbol, for example with G= and H`.

Too bad, but hey, this is why they sample!

 

[EvilDragon]

Hm, true, the Y is higher than it should.
Gotta check it out.

Won't delay anything, as it doesn't affect the mould

 

[borgqueenx]

evildragon, will the keymat have transparant stickers on each buttons, just like on laptops, so the black or other ink(letters) wont fade away after a while?

 

[gruso]

The final version will have a hard shell on top so the letters won't wear off. Like this:

http://openpandora.wordpress.com/2009/0 ... ad-finish/

 

[hedwards]

Hm, true, the Y is higher than it should.
Gotta check it out.

Won't delay anything, as it doesn't affect the mould

OK, if you're going to correct them, I now want one of the limited edition messed up font keypads.

 

[bzar]

Great news! Should the "Create the keymat mould (takes 20 - 25 days)" in the road map be striked out?

EDIT: No it shouldn't. Those are samples so the mould isn't ready yet, right?