Round 4 / packing (99.8%) / shipping (99.7%)

mashby · 11 Jul 2013, 01:34

tjcaustin wrote:Also, should I be worried that I haven't received a confirmation email from the bot?

No. It sometimes takes awhile for 7bit to run it.

matt3o · 11 Jul 2013, 07:56

PS: indeed the ' " key is BOLD

Netdewt · 11 Jul 2013, 15:57

Netdewt wrote:Status of #0605? It's marked packed a few weeks ago.

Still nothing. Will I get a shipment notification when it ships?

forenleser0815 · 11 Jul 2013, 22:12

Netdewt wrote:Still nothing. Will I get a shipment notification when it ships?

No.
I can't remember that anyone here get a notification.

Myramond · 12 Jul 2013, 10:43

Myramond wrote:Hi 7Bit,

Just wanted to know status of order 237.

Thanks

huttala · 12 Jul 2013, 10:46

I got my keys yesterday, YAY!!

But I can't try them out just yet since I'm going away over the weekend.

I'll take some pics and report about errors on sunday or monday.

7bit · 13 Jul 2013, 16:29

These guys did not yet submit their shipping address:

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0258
0344
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0614
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Please send your address to 7bit_R4 in the following format:

ADDRESS
Walter Cherry
Cherrystrasse 1
D-91275 Auerbach/OPf.
Germany

BimboBB · 13 Jul 2013, 17:48

Received my keys today! \o/ Nearly no missing keys...just SPH/FUNCTION is missing 9 keys.

Will send details to yr bot.

These sphericals are fuffn awesome...so huge and thick!

Many thanks again 7bit! <3

7bit · 13 Jul 2013, 19:01

BimboBB wrote:... just SPH/FUNCTION is missing 9 keys. ...

OPEN is missing
CUT is missing
COPY is missing
PASTE is missing
UNDO is missing
BEGIN is missing
END is missing
PRIOR is missing
NEXT is missing

These are all in SPH/TERMINAL, so I threw them out of SPH/FUNCTION quite a while ago.

ekw808 · 13 Jul 2013, 19:10

I just sent you my address (0258), could have sworn I've done it a few times already..

7bit · 13 Jul 2013, 19:18

ekw808, please send it this way:

ADDRESS
Sony Olivetti
7 Space Avenue
Lake, NY 12345
United Arab Emirates

Muirium · 13 Jul 2013, 19:20

Those tall sphericals do look so fine. Shame this closed before I arrived.

So… When's the next round of sphericals?

GMC · 13 Jul 2013, 19:37

BimboBB wrote:Received my keys today! \o/ Nearly no missing keys...just SPH/FUNCTION is missing 9 keys. Will send details to yr bot.

These sphericals are fuffn awesome...so huge and thick!

Many thanks again 7bit! <3

Jelly. Can't wait for mine...

scope2k · 13 Jul 2013, 20:03

#0588 received - sadly I won't be able to check the contents until next weekend

TDub · 14 Jul 2013, 00:38

Those sphericals look so nice, i very much regret not getting any.

7bit, I rechecked the thread and I saw my order on what I think is the packaged list but none of the shipped lists (the list is from may so even if that was shipped it should have been here by now). Can you let me know what the status of my order (0690) is?

7bit · 14 Jul 2013, 14:00

Packed. Will be shipped next week.

huttala · 14 Jul 2013, 16:11

Now I have assembled the RETRO set, all the keys seem to be there, no problems there. But the text is IMPOSSIBRUUU to see.

The board looks damn good now tho. Might even make it to my Filco with silver alu case.

7bit · 14 Jul 2013, 16:36

It is only your camera!

Here is how they look for real:

Muirium · 14 Jul 2013, 16:38

Nice blanks you both got there.

huttala · 14 Jul 2013, 16:41

7bit wrote:It is only your camera!

Here is how they look for real:

My camera actually shows how they look IRL, your pic with a flash right on the caps does not look as it does IRL.

7bit · 14 Jul 2013, 16:43

Maybe, some percentage of people who ordered RETRO keys is colorblind?

edit: If your pic is what you see in real life, you should consider an eyes specialist!

huttala · 14 Jul 2013, 16:46

7bit wrote:Maybe, some percentage of people who ordered RETRO keys is colorblind?

Maybe, but I'm not one of them.

Ah well, the keys look amazing anyway, but I have to say that I'm a little disappointed.
Over a year of waiting and I get keys with text just as visible as the black on black Topre caps.

BUT, I really appreciate the work you have done 7-bit, and it is not your fault that the keys don't look like in the pics. It's SP. So please, don't take this as bad criticism!

7bit · 14 Jul 2013, 16:58

In fact, it is my fault, because I chose the colors.

TDub · 14 Jul 2013, 17:01

huttala that board looks sexy, not being able to read the keys is a small price to pay

7bit: thanks for the update! Looking forward to getting my fingers on these

Muirium · 14 Jul 2013, 17:03

Low contrast legends are always tricky. What colours you see depend on the available light. A bright camera flash will pop them out a bit, but who works in a studio bright environment?

Even if you're not colourblind (which I'm not affected by, either) your eyes see contrast easier than they see colour. You brain resolves contrast first and figures in colours at a later stage. This has been explored and exploited heavily in photography and video processing. Sensors in still and video cameras use a Bayer filter of green-red-green-blue to emphasise contrast sensitivity and better match how we see. Black & white photography might never have worked at all if we didn't happen to see in this two-step system.

So high contrast legends ftw! White caps. Black Helvetica.

huttala · 14 Jul 2013, 20:59

Muirium wrote:Low contrast legends are always tricky. What colours you see depend on the available light. A bright camera flash will pop them out a bit, but who works in a studio bright environment?

Even if you're not colourblind (which I'm not affected by, either) your eyes see contrast easier than they see colour. You brain resolves contrast first and figures in colours at a later stage. This has been explored and exploited heavily in photography and video processing. Sensors in still and video cameras use a Bayer filter of green-red-green-blue to emphasise contrast sensitivity and better match how we see. Black & white photography might never have worked at all if we didn't happen to see in this two-step system.

So high contrast legends ftw! White caps. Black Helvetica.

Ah, well. At least the dark gray caps look really good.
150€ and 1 year + waiting time for some nice looking mods ain't too bad.

(ps, just tried some programming in dim lightning and it's really hard to hit the right caps since I can't see shit of the white caps).

Kellybear · 14 Jul 2013, 22:25

Got my noir set ^^ Looks pretty on the KMAC I have. Thank you 7bit <33

Minskleip · 15 Jul 2013, 08:39

7bit wrote:
BimboBB wrote:... just SPH/FUNCTION is missing 9 keys. ...

OPEN is missing
CUT is missing
COPY is missing
PASTE is missing
UNDO is missing
BEGIN is missing
END is missing
PRIOR is missing
NEXT is missing
These are all in SPH/TERMINAL, so I threw them out of SPH/FUNCTION quite a while ago.

Do you have extras one can buy?

7bit · 15 Jul 2013, 09:32

Yes, there are some of these left.

BimboBB · 15 Jul 2013, 09:45

I would also like to take a few of these left function keys.....if possible.