Please note that this makes a single hand/side of the keyboard, a complete keyboard requires 2 sets of PCB's and (additional) components.
The Lotus 58 Keyboard is meant to be DIY & beginner friendly, allowing almost anyone to succesfully build it from a kit to a finished keyboard, regardless of your previous level of experience soldering and tinkering, and with access to mostly basic level tools.
Some previous experience soldering is a great help but not in any way neccesary. Most components are selected to be large enough and robust enough to survive being handled by an inexperienced builder, and still produce a nice, clean keyboard, that functions well.
The 58 key layout is meant to be roughly equivalent to a 60% keyboard with a number row, but with no dedicated function keys, and with a gentle stagger, it should suit most hand sizes witout having to reach for the keys. Basically, it's meant to be a good middle ground, and to suit most users.
Cases and plates are meant to be largely interchangeable between different variations of Lotus 58, with obvious caveats for what layout you select, requiring the top plate to match (OLED/Encoder/Blank).
The parts needed for assembling the case.
v1.0 - The original design had breakaway parts for the switch holes, allowing the front plate to be used as a backplate.
v1.1 - Updated version with no breakaway parts, adding the blank option, and tentable bottom plates (⌀3 mm hole).
v1.2 - Adjusted fit on OLED cutout, Encoder and tenting plates are updated to a ⌀4 mm hole. No copper layer for better wireless performance.
v1.3 - Added nice!view plate.
Normal handling time is 3-5 working days, not including build items (Those usually take 1-2 weeks). I normally process orders on the weekend, as this is in-fact not my full time job.
Shipping is done with insured/signed for parcels, where no such service is available the parcel is sent as insured parcel, but may not be fully traceable the entire transit. If no insured or traceable service is available, parcels will be sent as uninsured/untraceable at the buyers responsibility.
All packets are represented to courier services and customs at their true value, and all responsibility for import fees, taxes and tariffs resulting there of lies with the buyer.
The SE "Act on Distance Contracts and Off-Premises Contracts" (SFS 2005:59) & The EU "The Distance Selling Directive" (97/7/EC) allows returns of the items initiated within 14 days of receiving it. Shipping of returned items is the sole responsibility of the buyer.
(Please note that in the case of kits as is mainly sold here, this does no longer apply once you start soldering/building the kit as it is then no longer in it's original condition, and you have at that point explicitly accepted the purchase contract!)