Spent this morning researching #mechanicalkeyboards & #switches I will need to do more research, but it's a good start.
It's time for another new keyboard, the last one I bought was just before I quit twitter for Mastodon and that was a membrane.
Since I've been writing full time, I've gone through 5 cheapo keyboards, and it's always because one key fails (heavy finger strike maybe), so time to go back to mechanical. At least then when a key fails, I can replace the failed switch. #keyboards
Post your daily driver keeb. Doesn’t have to be mechanical. Here’s mine (minus the artisans, they’re just window-dressing whenever I take it to meetups). #Mechanicalkeyboards#mechanicalkeyboard#mechkeys
every time I get a keyboard somehow my spacebar ticks and it drives me so fucking insane that i honestly just give up and need someone else to do it for me LOL
KBD8X Mk III done! No photos yet (still waiting on new caps) but this was my first full build and I gotta say it made me appreciate how easy the Keychron V3's been to work with. Everything inside the V3 is so well signposted and fits together so easily. The KBD8X is nice to use but more fiddly to put together, and the steps weren't always obvious. I don't mean this as a knock on kbdfans – I'm sure it's mostly lack of experience on my part – but kudos to Keychron for making such beginner-friendly boards.
The PCB caters for multiple layouts, so some of its stabilizer holes run together. That causes clip-in stabs to be a bit loose. I made mine work with stab-stoppers, but I would've bought screw-ins had I known.
For the same reason, there are two sets of holes for some switches. The pad covers up the contact holes so you can't easily see that switches using the set of holes on the right should go in upside-down.
VIA support is OK, but some features (in my case, delays for macros) are Vial-only.
The last few nights I've been working on swapping the stock springs in my T1 Shrimps for these longer multi-stage ones. The longer springs are slightly lighter than the stock ones but they don't bottom out as quickly.
I went to a keyboard meetup a couple of years ago and brought a bunch of the fam with me.
Then I went to a different meetup all the way in DC and brought a bunch of the fam with me PLUS lots of others did. Huge pile of keyboards on the table.
Some day I should bust out the whole collection and lay it out. I'd need a much larger table though haha
in honor of #40sday, here's my current daily driver.
Reviung34 with Boba u4t switches, MDA Future Suzuri caps. Powered by a nice!nano using a batt!pack for battery connection and power switch, and a nicehatharry to attach the nice!view display
Hey, #MechanicalKeyboards pals!
Has anyone experience with FKCaps custom #keycaps ? https://fkcaps.com/custom/
I would live to create (and buy!) my own perfect set for my #ErgoDash, but even though I'm aiming at DSA PBT, I'm wondering if laser-printed labels would last longer or not.
Are there similar alternatives to this service, with dye-sub or double-shot?
I don't have a good keyboard. Don't get me wrong, it's working fine. I bought it in July of 2019 for $24 American and it's still perfectly functional. It's a Reccazr, which I've seen good and bad reviews for. Lately it's become more and more noticeable to me that the little tabs on the F and J keys that help touch typists find home row have worn completely down to nothing. I'm tossing around the idea of just replacing the keycaps since the keyboard still works fine. Or a new one?
Finally finished the soldering and everything seems to work! Just couldn't test the stereo piezo buzzers yet, will need to write the QMK firmware first... In the meantime, here are the source and production files: https://github.com/kilipan/teenspirit