Case
The pumpkin case is a stacked acrylic design with translucent frosted orange acrylic. It comes fully assembled, just add your own 10 switches and remap the keys or program in your macros.
Normally, laser cut acrylic comes out sharp but each layer is hand finished to smooth out the edges. This will feel smoother than any stacked acrylic case you've touched before.
Hotswap PCBs are prone to falling off when you insert switches, or possibly damaging the socket if not supported. To prevent this in the pumpkinpad, I have a clear 1.5mm layer under the plate as well as a 3mm panel under the PCB that holds the sockets tight.
Hardware - I have chosen to use black M2 countersunk hex screws, with each hole manually countersunk to ensure screw heads don't stick out. The hex standoffs are chosen to prevent 'spinning out' where sometimes the opposite end gets unscrewed. The hex shape on the other hand gets held in position so this problem never happens.
Lastly the feet - the front uses 3M bumpons commonly found on custom keyboards and the rear 2 are custom 10mm high rubber feet, this provides roughly a 6-7° angle).
PCB
For this first release pumpkin case, I wanted it to light up like a carved pumpkin. To that end, it has an RGB LED for each key as well as an extra 14 on the bottom and 4 on top.
If you do not want the RGB on, there is a simple key combo to turn it off, or you can hit the physical switch on the bottom. This cuts power to the LED circuit. What this means is you could remove the power on/off key combo and still be able to turn the LEDs on and off.
Hotswap is another feature I wanted to try out to make this an easier prospect for beginners. Being only 10 keys, you could try out various switches as many come in 10 packs from vendors.
Programming - this is fully QMK compatible and the PCB designer Jels has put together a short guide. VIA compatibility will come later as it takes time for approval.
