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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm an idiot and joined the Indiegogo for the Cyberboard. Ugh so dumb and lovely and ugly how disgusting, let me know when you gonna sell it, uh
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.Z. posted:Oh yeah, if any of you have a FC980C board and feel like blowing a bunch of money on it, Norbauer has preorders up for aluminum and steel replacement cases. ($545 and $1,475 Uh, no. I'm happy with my default case. Can't you build a ridiculously good board from scratch at that price?
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Lord Stimperor posted:Ugh so dumb and lovely and ugly how disgusting, let me know when you gonna sell it, uh I'll keep you posted. I'm not gonna eat that $70 shipping though so buyer beware it's not gonna be cheap. Really I'm just in it for that loving wicked carrying case.  If round 2 ever happens I'll probably just buy the PCB w/qmk if that's possible. On a serious note... I literally can't afford to feed my family. Someone please help me budget this:  e: I can probably do with just one of the two thick clicks and either the blueberry or sherbet but I can't decide and I've never tried them.
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I got in as one of the lucky 200 who are part of the duckboard group buy. Pretty hyped for a $23 number pad with QMK, rotary encoder, OLED and underglow LEDs.   
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ihatepants posted:I got in as one of the lucky 200 who are part of the duckboard group buy. Pretty hyped for a $23 number pad with QMK, rotary encoder, OLED and underglow LEDs. wow holy poo poo that thing sold out in seconds.
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That piece of poo poo costs FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS?!
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Deviant posted:That piece of poo poo costs FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS?! oh you sweet summer child.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:oh you sweet summer child. No, no, I am very familiar with what this hobby costs, my high profile ctrl and stacks of keycaps are proof of that. but that piece of poo poo costs four hundred dollars.
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Again, yeah. If you want something not mass produced and not poo poo like a Sat75 it'll cost you $1500 on /r/mechmarket e: anything else is going to be group buy raffles where only like 100 people even get a chance to buy one just so they can flip it on /r/mechmarket.
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You are absolutely keying in on the 'four hundred dollars' part of my sentence when what I am trying to explain is that keyboard is a piece of laughable garbage I would be embarrassed to own at any price. it looks like elon musk's tonka truck, the synth from Close Encounters, and a ti-83 calculator had a horrific love child
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Deviant posted:it looks like elon musk's tonka truck, the synth from Close Encounters, and a ti-83 calculator had a horrific love child Oh yeah totally, not arguing that at all. It looks like something William Shatner would stick his dick in when nobody else was on the bridge. But it'll be the only keyboard I own that I can draw penises on so...
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I don't care what it costs but I can't imagine buying a custom numpad without = and Tab.
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~Coxy posted:I don't care what it costs but I can't imagine buying a custom numpad without = and Tab. I mean the operative word there is custom. Any/all of the buttons could be = and tab if you wanted.
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Just had some Drop Skylight keycaps delivered and put them on my kbd67mkiirgblmao. I got the all black set so it actually matches the black case (I previously had the black on grey set from kbdfans). They are a bit thinner pbt than what I had but they have a decent texture and the sound is almost the same. The other set will be put on my dz65rgb (? I don't even know at this point) that was just delivered.
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Yay received my Susuwatari order and the spacebars aren't hosed up like they were with the Zabumon set.
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Are there any hot swappable TKL boards/PCBs with ISO layout besides GMMK out there?
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Boz0r posted:Are there any hot swappable TKL boards/PCBs with ISO layout besides GMMK out there? yes.
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What does everybody think of my new split-ortho-ergonomic layout?
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Nondescript Van posted:What does everybody think of my new split-ortho-ergonomic layout? Now this I would pay $400 for!
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Boz0r posted:Are there any hot swappable TKL boards/PCBs with ISO layout besides GMMK out there? https://caps-unlocked.com/cu80-round-3/ If you're willing to lose a couple of keys and go down to a 75%, there's also this Idobao ID80v2 that ends in 9 days https://www.idobao.net/products/idobao-id80v2-75-hot-swappable-mechanical-keyboard-kit
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ihatepants posted:I got in as one of the lucky 200 who are part of the duckboard group buy. Pretty hyped for a $23 number pad with QMK, rotary encoder, OLED and underglow LEDs. This is great, the rotary encoder is so cool. Hopefully there'll be a second round someday.
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Welp maybe not. I was gonna post the CU-80 as well but it's over https://caps-unlocked.com/cu80-round-3/
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Which switches have the best backlighting? Are there designs that have less spill than others? Can that be mitigated with some kind of off the shelf shade that surrounds the switch? I'm working on a car PC and decided I should make a custom board for my car instead of trying to reuse the existing stereo controls. It's basically just wider than a 60pct KB but I'd add some media specific keys, a display and an encoder or two. I'd like the backlighting to be as perfect as possible. Stock is this: 
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I'm not sure what you mean exactly, by perfect back lighting, but switches will either have an opaque, translucent, or clear housing. They will also either have a hole in the housing to allow the LED to shine through, or not. No hole and opaque housing = no light shine through. Clear housing and hole = the most light shine through. Any other combination is somewhere inbetween. The leds can either be SMD (surface mounted on the board) or through hole where the leds sit atop the switch and pass through that hole in the switch to the board (like in the WSAD Code on the 1st post of this thread)
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I have a code with cherry clears, the lighting is mediocre on some of the legends, especially around the edges. I'd like to have the backlighting be as even as possible, so if some switch type is good at that I'd prefer it. Perhaps it is more the keycaps? And when I look at photos of keyboards, there is a ton of spill around the keycaps. I'd like to avoid that if possible. I suppose a matte black PCB would help some, or that almost-vantablack paint. And the demo shots are likely on full power. If I have to make a bunch of little 3d-printed walls to go around the switches I probably would. Spill between the keys:  e: I did also have the idea of doing front lighting (as in lights shining from above the keys onto them, not legends on the front of the caps), which would open things up to a bunch of cooler keycaps, but I'm not sure how well it would work in practice. taqueso fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Aug 13, 2020 |
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4000 Dollar Suit posted:Romer g have amazing backlights, but they feel like lovely browns I hate Romer G as well. Pure trash.
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Lol Romer G's whole existence is based on having good RGB. They literally designed it around having the center column having the LED shine trhough right in the middle. EDIT: 
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They still look cool and somehow comfy imo! So I've caved and done my first Massdrop order for a switch sampler pack (I have been looking for a tester but all the ones I've wanted have been sold out forever, unsurprisingly, and this has a bunch of types I wanna try). I don't have a hot swap board yet, so what should I mount them in to test them out? I have plenty of spare keycaps to put on em, just not sure what to stick them in to hold them stable. Poking around, I've seen things ranging from cardboard to hot swap macro pads that would work, but ideally I want a very cheap option that is more durable than cardboard. Do y'all have any ideas?
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Stroop There It Is posted:They still look cool and somehow comfy imo! It's very very comfy
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Stroop There It Is posted:They still look cool and somehow comfy imo! I'd just stick them into some sort of dense-ish material like styrofoam, or maybe even a tightly packed play doh or something. With switch testers, you can only really feel how individual switches feel and not how typing with them feels, so I wouldn't really bother making an ideal switch tester setup. Also, you could opt for a 3d printed plate maybe, if you think it's worth it: https://www.shapeways.com/product/9BA4DU3C9/cherry-mx-7-switch-tester?optionId=59790663&li=marketplace
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Here is a quick guide to making your stabilizers not suck so much. 1) Cut out some padding to go under. Bandaids work (hence the name). I'm using some silicone sheet I bought years ago.  2) Cut off those stupid thin feet.  3) Lube them bad boys up. I use "Super Lube" and it is indeed super. How much should you add? Impossible to say. That amount probably doesn't exist. Push it in to every crevice you can find and wipe off the stem when you're done if you want to be all neat about it.  4) Assemble the rest of your keyboard.  5) Enjoy it's special uniqueness.  6) Ask yourself why. 
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Nondescript Van posted:Stabalizer stuff If nothing else, the greasing really should be done on any board. Also I've run out of ideas of how to make my stabilizer keys (especially the spacebar) quieter. They've been clipped, lubed and greased, band-aid modded, and heatshrinked. I've also added foam to the Backspace and Spacebar and the improvements are minimal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AEsz9KvM8A Any thoughts on what I could do? Re-do the lubing/greasing? More grease? More foam?
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Constellation I posted:I'd just stick them into some sort of dense-ish material like styrofoam, or maybe even a tightly packed play doh or something. With switch testers, you can only really feel how individual switches feel and not how typing with them feels, so I wouldn't really bother making an ideal switch tester setup. IDK how silly of an idea this is, but at least I can use these for other purposes if it doesn't work: I found some silicone ice trays for making mini ice cubes, one of which makes cubes that are 0.5 inches (12.7 mm), and one of which makes cubes that are 0.6 inches (15.24 mm)... and it seems like MX-style switches are generally 14mm wide. I'm wondering if I'll be able to squish the switches into the first one, since the silicone ice trays I have are flexible...
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My K2 arrived today. The backlight mode that makes waves of color shoot out from pressed keys made me giggle like an idiot. I currently have it set to alien semen yellow and am well pleased. Within like five minutes I said out loud to no one and google "oh, that's why there's normally empty space around backspace" but who gives a poo poo: there's room on my keyboard tray for my mouse now.
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