| Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 |
6:18 pm
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Optimus Maximus Box Design We've tried several layouts searching for the best composition.  Finally, we've decided to change the color to white (to match the keyboard's color), and make the photo on the box to be of real size. This required the storyfoam tray to be enlarged.  This is the part of fiction layout to be used in advertizing and product shots:  |
| Saturday, October 6th, 2007 |
7:36 pm
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Optimus Maximus Current Status Report Our OLEDs were approved for mass poduction early September. First lot should arrive late October/early November. There may be a slight shift in the schedule due to possible shortages of OLED controllers supplies, that are shipping to Taiwan from Japan. At the moment the main priority for us is firmware development. We use LPC2888 Philips CPU, and Philips doesn't have any ready software solutions that we may use right away. Optimus Maximus will ship with an SD-card of 512MB and the speed of 150x. SD-card is mainly used to store layouts for faster access. Current version of the PCS was preliminary tested for CE and FCC approval. Optimus passed the tests. Special shielded room for testing.  Green antenna sences the the radio interference produced by electronics.  |
| Friday, October 5th, 2007 |
12:47 am
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Optimus Maximus to be Shipped in White  |
| Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 |
10:01 pm
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Optimus Maximus Lower Cover Allright, our OLEDs don't get hot. They even don't get considerably warm. That's why we're getting rid of the holes on the lower cover. Instead, from the outside there will be just flat surface. On the inside, we're placing the signatures of the Optimus Team members.  |
| Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 |
11:29 pm
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Optimus Maximus Graphics Optimus is connected not only to the power supply but to the USB as well. Meaningful image is shown on the keyboard for the first time. Actually, making the keyboard work with applications is the most important part of the project.  |
| Friday, September 14th, 2007 |
4:23 pm
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First Optimus Maximus Arrives at Moscow  |
| Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 |
5:11 pm
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Optimus Maximus Parts  |
| Monday, September 10th, 2007 |
11:31 pm
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Optimus Maximus Director's Cut  |
| Friday, September 7th, 2007 |
6:21 pm
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Optimus Maximus Icons Photoshop icon set in process.  Testing Testing Testing  |
3:04 pm
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Optimus Lower Tray Moulding
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2:58 pm
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Key Remover in Action
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1:02 am
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Optimus Key Remover This is a special tool to pull out the keys.  |
| Thursday, September 6th, 2007 |
7:20 pm
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Optimus Key Million Presses Test 999,999 keypresses. One more keypress comes in a second.  |
| Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 |
2:42 am
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Optimus Maximus First Test Mould Problems   |
| Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 |
3:10 pm
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Optimus Maximus Tinted Keycaps Here's the hi-tech tinted plastic cup we use to check the needed amount of tint for the transparent keycaps.  Here you can see that tinted keycaps look better than completely transparent ones. (Hint: all the double-sized keycaps are tinted.)  |
| Monday, September 3rd, 2007 |
2:31 am
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Optimus Maximus Test Moulding Background: raw plastic. Foreground: painted plastic.  Paint is often used to hide the ugly effect of glossy surface as well as to hide some unwanted artefacts. Here it just makes the object look better.  |
| Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 |
1:25 pm
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Optimus Maximus Box Package is an essential part of the product for two reasons. First, the product should be wrapped in something to be send by post. Second, is there's no packaging or there's one that's crap, all the reviewers will write about it. In fact, no one cares about the ecology when emotions are concerned. Upper foam tray with room for manuals, power adapter and a power cord.  Upper tray is removed.  Below is lower foam tray with the keyboard itself in it.  Box handle looks ugly, and the box itself is not as big, so we'll skip the handle completely. |
11:05 am
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OLED Cosmetics An OLED screen without connected power looks like something transparent with golden foil reflections. On the right here:  That's why a darkening UV-film is applied to all the OLED screens. Switched off keyboard may look somewhat strange. Imagine all the keys would look like this:  UV-film has a drawback: it reduces the brightness. But that's not so bad, because original OLED brightness is too bright for an eye.  Anyway, we have to hide the inner parts of the keys somehow. So we'll use UV-film, as well as find the appropriate percentage of darkening for the transparent caps - 5 or 10 percent. |
| Friday, August 24th, 2007 |
3:41 pm
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Something to Avoid We're doing our best to avoid plastic seams that often appear when plastic mass is flowing around an obstacle (i.e. screw hole). Seams usually do not appear when hot-channel injection is used because plastic mass is hot all the way. But hot-channel moulds are more expensive, so they're often not used for the parts not immediately seen. For example:  We have a potentially seam-rich region - ventilation holes on the lower tray. To avoid seams we'll use local heating on the mould - this will ensure that plastic will not cool down enough to form a visible junction. |
| Sunday, August 12th, 2007 |
5:16 pm
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Optimus Maximus Space Bar Key With Cranks Proto  |
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