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ohaimark wrote: ↑Thank you! I'm going to pass things over to webwit at this point, as I need to get food and do some things for University. Exams start on Monday and I still have a group project to wrap.

Do well on your exams. If luck will make a significant impact on your grades, you're already screwed.

ohaimark wrote: ↑The Model MF takes the Wingnut in The Deskthority!

I guess that's because we don't have an electoral college.

Wow. This is interesting to watch. I'll just continue to laugh, know that it doesn't matter, and vote for who I really want to win.

I'd like to register an official complaint about the top-two-contestants announcements, though. That only further hurts the chances of everyone else.

Do you have a recent Macbook? If so congrats - a Hall sensor in the base detects a magnet in the lid to determine when the lid is closed. In some laptops it's the other way around, so you can fool laptops into thinking they're closed by holding magnets near the tops of their lids. A great trick to ...

I've got nothing against XMIT, I just get riled up when people say things like he "brought Hall effect back". The Hall effect never went anywhere.

I feel like XMIT's project is the one for this category. A revival of a classic switch in a modern form factor. What more can you ask for? Calling XMIT's Hall effect keyboards "a revival of a classic switch" makes about as much sense as calling Topre "a revival of capacitive buckling spring" or cal...

I hate to disagree with clickykeyboards but I don't think the top one is real. You can see a nick on the third picture on the left side and a scratch on the second picture that is lighter than the case colour. That indicates that it's painted and my version is not painted. You can see that from the...

Interestingly, on my Displaywriter beamspring, left shift is "SHIF T" and right shift is "SHIFT".

Techno Trousers wrote: ↑…A year ago I would have said there's no way a modern layout capacitive buckling spring keyboard will ever be made…

Really? A year ago, Ellipse was hard at work developing one. And Xtant, despite being rather limited in production, had already been done.

It also affects urls with anchors, i.e. https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?p=13329580#p13329580 Fixed that, but not historically. I cheated by replacing # with ⌗ (viewdata square) in the url shortener code. But that is invoked upon save of a post, not render. Could you maybe just make th...

It's starting to work again. The bad news is: It's working too good. It recognises # in code blocks. I'm not sure we want threads about firmware tagged with #ifdef and similar hashtags... EDIT: Ratfinks suggestion could also cause issues with code or urls containing anchors. Well, does the current ...

Okay, here's my proposal. Make the tags by writing a # before the word in your post as it currently works, but hide the # when actually displaying the post. That would fix my major complaint, which is that all those # characters are an eyesore. Hell, if people actually want to see them, then do what...

Octothorpes in front of words are an eyesore. I'm strongly against spreading them beyond the garbage "social media" sites where they originated. We have a search feature after all, and it works pretty well.

Great chance to buy a case for your MF assembly: Industrial grey case for $18 with free US shipping. Discount will be visible when you put the item in the shopping cart. http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/1394942 Also, you can get 10 rubber dome boards for only 6 bucks! I bet those would be pre...

seebart wrote: ↑

Ratfink wrote: ↑If that wins, does someone have to go there just to leave the wingnut?

No, someone has to go there and get all those Beamsprings...

I can see it now…Rustmaster 2.0.

If that wins, does someone have to go there just to leave the wingnut?

Wodan wrote: ↑I nominate the IBM Model M. Once you tear one apart, you can see it's literally the MY/G81 switch of IBM.

Sure, combining things into one molded piece, using membranes, and putting it together with plastic rivets is just for cheapening the product. But M2 is always the real Cherry MY of IBM.

Beamsprings. The father of a renowned line of clicky keyswitches, no other switch can match their elegant swing and sharp tactility.

NASA, eh? Better get it working with modern computers so you can play Kerbal Space Program with it.

Really cool board. I've love to see it after a good cleaning.

Mine shipped today as well. I expected to ship it yesterday, but the FedEx guy didn't come until today.

vvp, I can tell you first-hand that those ST LED driver chips are great. I used the 24-output version in a rather silly project of mine, and it performed admirably as an LED matrix driver. If I were designing a keyboard with backlighting, I'd definitely reach for one or more of them.

hey guys, looking to get some idea what my IBM screenreader is worth, not sure how best to sell it. only a handful have surfaced hence the lack of pricing information <snip> I'd offer you a negotiable $80 for it right now if it had the original "HELP" and "STOP" keycaps. Without those, its humor is...

Good God, a living hinge? I bet that's rated at just enough keystrokes to last you until the next Macbook is released.

Wow, those look great! I'm glad to see a "spherical" set that emulates beamspring keycaps, which aren't quite truly spherical.

And here is a Wey HK2000 that works the same but has windowed function keys with RGB leds that can shine green, red or orange depending on the functions. If those are the only colors they can be, the LEDs are more likely just red and green, with amber being made by some combination of the two (eith...

Oh, this is still going on? Damn, why haven't you guys started ignoring this thread? Political shouting matches like this only lead to sour grapes.

HaaTa wrote: ↑Like XMIT's recent hall effect keyboards it also has the pcb epoxy trick for water-resistance. I have a few military keyboards that do this.

Not really a trick, it's just a conformal coating. We put them on some of the PCBs we make at my job.

So you're just using the pricing of OSH Park then. That wasn't very clear from the OP, so thanks for the clarification. I must complain about the choice to use PCBWay though; their PM spam here on Deskthority left a bad taste in my mouth (and got them banned).

Gold-on-purple IBM badges with mouse bites, from a fab with free shipping and only one price break for volume (that we don't get benefits of)? I don't mean to be rude, but what's the point of a group buy if I could pay just as much by ordering them myself?

Wow, why would someone get rid of SSL when things like Let's Encrypt exist? You don't have to pay for certificates, and after it's set up, you don't have to do any work to keep renewing them.