1. Alphas

2. Modifiers

3. Extension

4. Numpad

5. Ergodox

6. Ortho

7. 40s

8. NorDeUK

9. Colevrak

10. Vim

11. Cadet

12. Gray Choices

13. Blue Choices

14. Arrows

15. Game

16. Spacekeys

17. Gray Spacebars

18. Blue Spacebars

19. Yellow Spacebars

20. Novelties

21. CADR

Colors:

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Hi friends,I'm happy to introduce you to the re-run of SA Symbiosis keycap. It was 2015, xblackdog designed and ran the R1 of SA Symbiosis keycap, which was of all R3 profile, with a few add on kits such as Ergodox. 2015 was a long time ago, and it's time to bring it back recently.About 6 months ago, I talked to xblackdog again for the re-run. Since he was too busy for it, the idea that maybe I should give a try occured to my mind. Recently, I finally have the time to do it. I asked xblackdog for the permission for the rerun and chatted with him about the idea to make changes to the keyset. He was kindly ok with those changes and gave me the permission. Here is the email he replied to Melissa of SP to confirm the permission granted.I really like this Symbiosis keyset, not only its nicely blue/grey color theme, but also the its symbolism of the space-cadet keyboard, and, what's in the bigger picture, the Lisp Machine. As a programmer myself, with faith love to the Lisp programming language, I think it's great to bring Symbiosis keyset back with a new design, which pays homage to the Lisp Machine and its space-cadet keyboard in history.SA Symbiosis Round 2 will still be an ABS double shot keyset of SA profile, made by Signature Plastics.Renders:Kits:The APL legends of Symbiosis R1 are slightly different from the original space-cadet keyboard. We will build new legends in R2 so that they will match nicely in R2.Yeah, this alpha is sculpted but not flat like R1.It uses special forms and functions in Lisp programming language as legends.I'm a heavy emacs user. I know there is no place for vim regarding to the Lisp Machine enviroment. But I do appreciate the arrange of those arrow keys in the alpha layout of R1. The idea behind it is: at the first place, we should make the default layout for the alpha kit loyal to the space-cadet keyboard; and if vim users want to reflect their preference to these arrows symbols, they got their chance to be happy. Since the MOQ of SP SA is not high, this strategy seems workable.These novelty keys include(from top to bottom):1) Row 1Parenthesized lambda, which usually is the symbol of LispEmacs logo, Emacs(a general name for all variants) is the editor popular in Lisp environmentGraphics logo, the combination of a triangle, a square and a circle is usually used to express the advances in the graphic system of Lisp Machine2) Row 2A logo "Symbiosis" in retro font style, just as the font style in which Symbolics Space-Cadet keyboard was labeled.3) Row 3Happy Hacking, a jargon among hackers in MIT AI Lab back to 1970s. It's said that Richard Stallman created it to wish another person plenty of hacking fun. It means "May you have happy hacking", just like the hacking version of "Have a nice trip", or "May the Force be with you". This jargon later is used as one part of the name of a PFU keyboard series, the Happy Hacking Keyboards.The LMI logo, LMI(Lisp Machines, Inc.) was a company formed in 1979 by Richard Greenblatt of MIT's AI Lab to build Lisp machines.4) Row 4, Row 5The same novelty legends mentioned above, just in different size or profile.A flat layout kit of all R3, as a revival of Symbiosis R1.Add a banner to your signature to support this project: