There’s been lots of progress with this project, which has sort of split into two at this point. For one, I’ve machined the second half and assembled it all, although I am still missing some keycaps. I also changed the keycap process to CNC machining them directly out of the same material as thee case (POM), which is a much more streamlined workflow and allowed me to finally get the fit on the keyswitches perfectly right. They also break up the light in a much nicer way, as you can see in this picture:
The firmware still needs some work, I haven’t gotten the inter-board communication to work yet, and i also want to be able to highlight a specific musical scale which is not possible yet.
The second part is that I am collaborating with FK Keycaps to make hexagonal keycaps on a larger scale using injection molding. Since the fixed costs for a new injection molded design are quite high, we decided to launch these keycaps together with a more mainstream 12-key macropad design called 0xC.pad:
render by Ilja Burzev
like the big prototype, the macropad has full RGB backlighting and uses Kailh Choc switches, but the case consists of two machined aluminum plates and the macropad uses a USB-C connector.
There’s currently two manually produced prototype units built, and we are now collecting feedback in order to fine-tune some of the choices we need to make for the group-buy, so if anyone would be interested in getting one of these, it would help us out if you were to fill out that form:
It will also be possible to buy individual keycaps if we get enough interest to get this off the ground. The dimensions and layout information will be available for anyone to design their own boards, and I’ll definitely take a shot at making a musical keyboard with them available at that point as well 
