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I would be amazed if the PCB is salvageable - but I would be deliriously happy to be proved wrong.

On the bright side, replacing it with a new one isn't difficult nowadays.

Two thoughts spring to mind:

1. You can already buy black cases from unicomp
2. I wonder if we approached them with an MOQ they'd be willing to stamp out some of these in custom colours.

I'd love the yellow

Got the board without more couple days ago. In my first thought, its a 5251 beam spring or some kinda variant, but now I know it's not. Its much shorter than a nornal 77-key beam, more like being from a nondetachable device with case gone, so anybody here could give some help for identifying? Thank...

I have to be honest, I really wish that we had this website in usenet format

Try the beamspring.dip file here:

https://github.com/redvers/modelf

For some reason I can't get a working diptrace here so I can't verify it. Let me know if it's good / bad.



Red

Yay - I'm glad to see another one of these in the wild.

... and defect my ass DMA - it worked perfectly here

(I set the min and max as opposites of each other so they were never true).

I can probably track down the original diptrace files if you give me a little while...

Sup wrote: ↑

09 May 2019, 23:54

so why would anyone want to have this?

Mobile data entry.

I got RSI in my thumb so I'm banned from phone keyboards.

Day 4, 19wpm

Day 1.
3 hours total broken into a few sessions. I have all letters, numbers, and many symbols mostly° memorized.

°I say mostly because every so often my brain will <space> on a character and stop my flow.

I would estimate that when on a roll I'm at about 8 wpm.

You're not going to convince me I've made a bad investment today~! I'm way too excited for it to arrive.

I'll keep a log of my progress for the haters <3

You may read that the moon has something to do with eclipses. I have never seen the moon yet. You do not see the moon. So near the sun, it is as completely inv The definition of word is "average length of a word in characters including spaces, numbers, and other printable characters". So that's 162...

Right - it's a chording keyboard.

Here's a video of someone doing 62wpm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI8X4JTBrew

Since we're seeing people getting 60+wpm we can't call it a gimmick.

Anyone played with one of these?

I don't see it replacing my F-122 any time soon, but an input for my phone it may become?

https://www.tapwithus.com

lot_lizard wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2019, 20:44

Assuming @__red__ is game if we can’t reach him

You called?

lot_lizard wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2019, 20:44

Has @DMA been around?

He's been away for a while, but I can contact him OOB if you need him.


Red

Muirium wrote: ↑façade

Be still my little english-speaking, diacritic loving heart. <3

Muirium wrote: ↑ Depends how much you can stand flatness, I suppose. I like my caps cylindrical and row contoured, so, for me, IBM caps on flatness is striking to the point of a straight up no-go.

To be clear, my daily driver is an F-122 at full incline so I'm pretty much typing at a 45 degree angle

For 300x200mm (4 layer):
1 -> $300
10 -> $78
100 -> $25

The technology has existed for some time to make roll-up musical keyboards, and now foldable phones and displays are making debuts. Should it not be possible to use the same technologies to make flexible keyboard PCBs? I just haven't found the lack of curve to be any issue. Try it before you overco...

Hey Red: does this board really lose nothing by dodging foam entirely? Are there any downsides at all in feel and sound? I uploaded some samples above. I may re-record them because I'm not really happy with how they sound compared to reality. The keyboard sounds amazing. much better than in the rec...

Hypersphere wrote: ↑Could we get a typing video with sound?

After the kid goes to bed.

wcass samples:
Flat: Propped Up: This does not do it justice.

For reference - other keybs in my collection:
XT: Unmodified 4704: Modified 4704 with craft foam: F-122:

Greetings! Just over a week ago I received a package and in that package was wcass' unique Model F compact SSK. I've been using it as my daily-driver for about a week now. I've now gotten enough information to give a good, solid review and consent to tear it down and comment on its construction. Gee...

Another thing to bear in mind, unicomp sell replacement parts (including new membranes) so it will always be repairable.

ZedTheMan wrote: ↑Hey, it's all good! The battleship sized ones aren't for every desk, haha! Best of luck.

OP needs a bigger desk

mike52787 wrote: ↑ Wcass built this.

Small World

I'd better do a teardown and review of it

So I came across this keyboard on my travels... it's buckling spring. Anyone recognize it?

I'm not at the house so I can't double-check - but from memory they're 3mm LEDs

FYI - Unicomp has the industrial case on clearance so replacing that warped case will be easy

Unicomp will custom print the Ctrl text on that key for you.

Because if your hopping an interconnect it causes latency. It should be clever enough to say , ok that app is only using 4 threads , lets keep all them threads on node0. But if you have a massively parallel task that is not impacted by latency like a big ass render it should have access to all node...