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[IC] AM AGA | Alice Keyboard

Oct 9, 20223239 VIEWS

AM AGA by Angry Miao

Crazy Designers here. The last few months have been hectic with the upcoming release of our Angry Miao CYBERBLADE wireless earbuds, but we also haven't been sitting still when it comes to keyboards. Today I'll introduce the latest thing we're working on: AM AGA.

So far, we have two keyboard styles in our lineup, namely CYBERBOARD, which has gone through several iterations, and AM HATSU, a wireless split ergo keyboard. For the last year or so, we have been thinking about what the next AM keyboard should look like. We have shared some drafts of 65% keyboards on our Discord channel, but those weren't really up to your tastes.

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One of the main points of criticism was that they simply didn't have the same presence as other Angry Miao products. We always stress that we want to make products that are valuable and meaningful to people, and definitely don't want to turn Angry Miao into a money-making machine popping out boring products. So we went ahead and started thinking about how we can advance the evolution of keyboard products. For now, we believe it lies in Alice. 5-axis CNC machining

We initially considered a modular design. In other words, we would first make a base, and then divide the left and right sides into two independent sections. This would allow you to adjust the feel of the left and right sides independently. As far as we know, nobody has created a keyboard with such a layout before. And with good reason. It's not only hard to mass-produce this type of design, the difference it brings in feel doesn't really solve any problems we encounter in practice. The manufacturing cost of such a large shell is outrageous, and so is its processing time, which exceeded 12 hours when we just started out. Later on, we made some improvements, but creating a single shell would still take us half a day. We believe five-axis CNC machining is the way forward, but that doesn't come without challenges. In fact, it even exceeds the complexity of the processing involved with AM HATSU.

We are currently encountering some problems, mainly related to the huge size of this layout. It's extremely difficult to craft its body from aluminum, since you need to take a whole piece of aluminum and then hollow it out. Also, it looks a bit large and bulky, not to mention its sharp edges make it not that suitable for day-to-day use. We have already started to improve on these problems, with success.

Layout

Based on the open-source Alice Layout, we took the best of what Alice has to offer and further improved upon it. The standard-issue Alice has some limitations in terms of practicality and universality. Therefore, we got some keen Alice and split ergo keyboard fans involved to help us out perfecting the keyboard arrangement. Adjustable Gasket Mount

Why is our Alice keyboard so thick? We cannot reveal too much at this point, but it's something truly unique. We will provide you with all the details in a future post update. Inspired by VF-19 from Macross

Macross is one of our favorite animes. We're especially fans of the VF-series variable fighters designed by Masaharu Kawamori. The VF-19, a fighter with forward-swept wing design, has a particularly cool shape. AM AGA incorporates a hollow metal frame with a slightly forward-swept design exactly to express this specific style. It takes numerous hours of 5-axis CNC machining to achieve this hollow metal frame, but the results speak for themselves. Up to this point, we have prepared a total of 5 color schemes for AM AGA. Check them out below! Macross VF-19

Taking its inspiration from the theater version of Macross F, we used the VF-19 ADVANCE variable fighter as the base for our color scheme. Interstellar Ranger

Inspired by Ranger, the futuristic sci-fi spaceship from the movie Interstellar. All Black

All black, the color (that isn't really a color) you can never go wrong with. Concept Car by Shane Baxley

Inspired by the Bertone Stratos B A X concept car design from Hollywood concept designer Shane Baxley. BLACKPINK

BLACKPINK in Your Area! Above is our current progress on AM AGA. We will update this thread when we have more information to share! If you are interested in our Alice keyboard or any other products, please feel free to join our Discord server. Link: https://discord.gg/8abfBrz4pN

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GreyFoxOne

Oct 22, 2022

This looks great. nice selection of colors. is there anything going on in the center? Key lock display, alert display screen, clock…? Just wondering

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Ryan_V

Oct 18, 2022

If Lamborghini made a keyboard I could see it looking something like this one. I'll be curious to know what the price is.

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2708

Oct 17, 2022

Certainly looks neat, but the Hatsu doesn't inspire confidence on it coming in at a good price.

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ZiggySmalls

Oct 18, 2022

Can't tell if you're memeing based on the Hatsu discussions or not XD

dingosama

Oct 18, 2022

ZiggySmallsdef a troll but we'll see lol 👀

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sietai

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Oct 17, 2022

Expected price? This looks awesome and it has the modifiers in the places I want them on an Alice board (my reservation about the feker) but it also looks very very expensive

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UnhingedNW

Oct 11, 2022

This looks amazing. I really see the inspo coming through, and as a new alic layout enthusiast, im really looking forward to this!

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