Project: New (colored) case for A1200

[Everblue]

Very interesting project, but what about new coloured keys? No point in buying a new case if I am stuck with an ancient yellowing beige keyboard :/

[Everblue]

I have pledged for this project, I really hope it does well and succeeds. I also wonder if the likes of AmigaKit or Vesalia will chip in. Maybe there should be a good quantity discount for them. I am also looking forward for the brand new keyboards too.

[Everblue]

Hmmm if my calculations are correct for this project to succeed, 1300 Euro / day need to be pledged every day until the last. How is it doing at the moment?

[Everblue]

Hopefully today the campaign will overtake the previous one. Some very promising sounding things on recent facebook posts too.

While I'm here and before I forget, I had some more thoughts on key caps for classic keyboards. The yellowing issue is mainly confined to the white keys. If only the white keys need to be replaced this should reduce the number of molds required. One mold would need 4 1x1 keys (one for each profile) and a second mold would need a space bar (1x9), a 1x2 for keypad '0' and a 1x1 for keypad '.'. The "4 1x1 keys" mold would need to be used 17 times to get enough keys to complete all the white rows. 17 1x1 white keys per row would leave a few over on an A1200 keyboard, 4 on the top row, 2 on the next row and 1 on the next row. If the printing costs are not prohibitive these extra keys could be marked as replacements for the beige 1x1 keys on the numeric keypad EDIT and the 1 remaining key could have alternative characters for the international/"blank" key next to the return key for example the UK keyboard could really use a single quote/apostrophe and either (shift) backtick/acute or tilde key there., just realised the spare key is from the wrong row (I'd still like a UK apostrophe key though).

The partial key set would be compatible with A500, A1200 and external mitsumi Amiga keyboards. The A600 has a shorter space bar (1x8?) so that would need a stretch goal to open an A600 partial key set option. Other stretch goals would open up more keys like a function keys goal all the way up to full key sets goal.

Should we see a massive jump in pledges in this kickstarter? Or I'm missing something here? Thanks!

[Everblue]

I think that once the first run is done, a 2nd one would be much cheaper to produce..... So it is not like the molds will be thrown away.