Kiibohd 5 - Bay Area Monthly Keyboard Meetup

HaaTa · 19 Feb 2014, 03:58

Time for the next meetup

The only requests I got were for early March. Sooooooo

1PM Saturday March 29th, 2014 @ Massdrop HQ SF
Saturday March 8th, 2014 @ Massdrop HQ SF
(Well tentatively until I get confirmation from Massdrop

)

Please indicate if you are coming.
And if you have any keyboard requests from my collection. With any luck I'll have some prototypes ready to show off, and if my back is up for it I'll bring my force gauge too

Delaying until another weekend in March. Please suggest when.

Icarium · 19 Feb 2014, 11:54

Prototypes of what? Not that I could make it to the other side of the world.

Compgeke · 19 Feb 2014, 16:31

Depending on your day, possibly. I'm in Manhattan Beach from the 7th through the 9th.

HaaTa · 02 Mar 2014, 02:52

Hmm, seems many people are busy.
I'm thinking about moving the meetup to another weekend.

Any preferences?

HaaTa · 05 Mar 2014, 03:37

Soooo, Grand Piano is being delivered on Saturday (gotta be around). Just officially cancelling this weekend's meetup.

Please suggest dates that are good.

Compgeke · 05 Mar 2014, 07:09

Our car goes into the shop next Tuesday after we get back so how about the 15th or 22nd?

HaaTa · 11 Mar 2014, 18:33

Any thoughts on March 29th?

HaaTa · 25 Mar 2014, 05:17

FYI Massdrop location: https://www.google.com/maps/place/1235+ ... 5e5f5eb8da

Coming:
nuclearsandwich
jacobolus
jwaz
input nirvana
obra
kaia
HaaTa (duh)

Coming?
- compgeke
- hashbaz
- jacobolus extra #1
- jacobolus extra #2

Daniel Beardsmore · 25 Mar 2014, 09:54

HaaTa wrote:Grand Piano

You gotta say that in Vivian Stanshall's voice …

BTW, does anyone who is going, have an Oriental Tech keyboard, e.g. the OK-100M?

I have come to suspect that the force curve is … well, lighter up to actuation, and stiffer thereafter, or something like that. Not exponential, more like two-stage (and there are two independent springs). It's a very interesting feel and, for me, a top candidate for measuring. Alps also did a dual-spring with slider over membrane keyboard that potentially has the same feel; the only person I know to have one, though, is MouseFan.

I called the switch "[wiki]Oriental Tech linear[/wiki]" but when I got my MX red keyboard, this suddenly seemed wrong: they don't feel anything like each other. The Oriental Tech switch no longer feels linear.