deskthority

While there are lots of linear MX clones, I'm actually amazed by the number of Cherry MX clones that are tactile — with the tactile event early in the key travel. These include the Holy/Glorious/Fekker Pandas and Zealio V2, but also a few more. All of these are from clone manufacturers: Cherry never...

The top case needs retr0brighting, but if you do it it will become one of the most beautiful keyboards ever made, IMHO. (I already have one)

In bpiphany's original firmware for the Phantom keyboard (one of the first DIY kits, remember the GB here ten years ago, veterans?), Shift+Shift was used to enter the bootloader. I noticed that randomly when typing, my keyboard stopped working, and I had pull out the USB lead and put it back in ... ...

To me, the top of the MX Black Clear-Top looks more milky than the housing on the original Nixie.
Good if there a simple way for collectors to tell them apart, at least...

I had an idea of posting a picture of Conan the Barbarian with a keyboard instead of his sword and the text "What is best Keyboard in Life?" but I'm not enough motivated.

I think that when the mech-keyboard revival happened in around 2010, Cherry was the only switch brand that continuously manufactured mechanical switches in large numbers. There was Forward/Fuhua/Fukka who made simplified Alps clones, but those had a reputation of being worse than Alps, and they stop...

Looks like one large switch grid. Would make one hell of an ortho-linear keyboard. :P ABB made/makes industrial equipment, such as robots. The PCB is marked ASEA ("A"): which merged with "BB" in Aug 1987 to form ABB. So the design must be pre-merger but it was sold after. Both ASEA and Ericsson Data...

Has it even been confirmed that production of MX Clears have got new tooling?
It was never a switch that Cherry seems to have sold that many of.

Oh, ANSI layout options. Cherry MX Silent Red and Supi-do but no MX Clear.

JP options have Up-arrow shifted ¼u left because of 1¼ Shift to the right of it ...

A mechanical keyboard that costs only 19€ ?

Input Club and Kailh tried to squeeze the beam spring mechanism into the same size as a Cherry MX switch, and without giving up the LED window or requiring high-profile keycaps.
I would think that the beam springs would have needed to be much smaller, and bend more than in these switches.

Don't really need it, and can't justify buying it. But I think it is cool. I've seen at least one project use it for prototyping a device. If I was looking to buy, I would ask for myself, but I would have to ask for others: • How many key modules are included? • Can I use it directly under Linux, or...

Wait, are you saying this didn't exist in iOS before version 16? I'm also a bit perplexed. I know I have tried a haptic touch-screen keyboard before, and Apple used to be pioneering haptics in phones... but I don't remember what device it was I have used. I only remember that it felt a bit ineffect...

Sound can be so subjective. I once built a plastic toy gun in which I used a Box Navy as clicker when pulling the trigger, but it didn't sound loud enough so I changed it to a blue Gateron.

Better to disassemble the AEKII and take a look from the front to see how the space bar is attached.

Awesome find! I'm a little bit jealous. Thanks for posting!

Don't knock them 'til you've tried them. The Mitsumi ones are a little bit more unusual also, I'd think.

It looks like your keyboard has a regular membrane contact mechanism . Each "switch" works by having two metallised circles: one on the top and and one on the bottom membrane that get pressed together to connect and conduct electricity. People sometimes ask if they could modify their 2-KRO mechanica...

The circuit board in the front looks like the motherboard from an early-revision ("bread bin") Commodore 64, but it is missing a couple of chips. I suppose it had been a donor for a restoration. You could resell it on eBay, or perhaps pry the socketed chips out of their sockets and sell those separa...

Looks like yet another clone of the Holy Panda with reduced key travel.
But is the bump sharp or more rounded?

You would have to think of efficiency of pressing the keys. The most natural would be to use the thumb, then the pinky, then pinky and thumb to hold a modifier/s while pressing another key. (i.e. I think Macintosh does it right) To press Ctrl-Shift-Alt ... using pinky, ring and long finger - forget ...

I think they are standing still though. Either way, one guy is about to lose his goldfish, and that "laptop" is about to fall to the studio floor and shatter. BTW. I think shoelaces are supposed to break when pulled too hard. I once replace mine with some durable laces from a military backpack. That...

It had been put into a couple of "gaming laptops" last year, as part of an exclusivity deal (which Cherry likes to do with new switch designs for some reason :roll: ). Linus of Linus Tech Tips gave his impression of it. The keyboard he's comparing it to (which he doesn't like) has linear feel. Since...

Warning: Off-topic The custom/DIY keyboard scene has instead completely gone over to Cherry-style stabilisers - of which most are PCB-mounted. (and when you search, you are likely to find mostly that type) Oh that’s good. Are they clipped, or whatever it is that’s supposed to fix their dead feel? Ye...

Among my outdated bookmarks, this store in the US had them: https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/cherry-mx-keycap-stabilizer-insert-2pcs.html They might be available in a store closer to you that caters to the PC gaming market. I dunno. BTW. The colour does not matter: black inserts work just as well. The ...

Too bad. It has a sturdier construction than winkeyful G80-3000, but I don't think the innards of those can be transplanted without some plastic mods.

I once did a mod of one to install the innards of a Chicony keyboard. It was an improvement.

Wrong subforum. You know where to post - you've done it before.

Having Fn on the left is a ThinkPad tradition, so I don't think that is bad if the convention is consistent. You can get used to it if a ThinkPad is your workhorse. (Personally I map Ctrl on Caps Lock anyway, so I'm not bothered) However, Lenovo has made some "ThinkPad"- branded laptops recently wit...

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the froggibest

The best keyboard it would be, if the eyes moved and blinked from time to time, and the keyboard made a croaking sound every time you pressed the Space Bar.

Not so much keyboard layouts as the limitations of ASCII, which still weigh among us, despite computers not being bound by it anymore. The thing is that we have not been limited by ASCII for a pretty long time now. How, everyone is using Unicode but: • MS-Windows got × and ÷ with Windows 2.0 in 198...