deskthority

I have never been able to understand the mentality of wasting my valuable time for no purpose other than to vex and irritate other people.

I suspect the spammers are people who have responded to "earn money working from home" adverts. They don't care about irritating you. It's not personal, it's ...

I was thinking to a Filco, but I read on Amazon US some very bad reviews about quality and post sale support...

I do not want to buy a Ducky again...


Amazon is not the place to look for unbiased reviews. Also, exactly what kind of "post sale support" are you expecting when you buy a mechanical ...

makesi168 wrote:

7bit wrote: In the meantime, please order some more kits:
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I pm 7bot three days ago,but I never get a reply.
The news has been preserved in outbox，I don't know, why?
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There is no need to quote a long comment, especially if it is totally unrelated to your question. That is just annoying.

Thanks seebart, I didn't the Blade Runner piece before! At least Eurostile made an appearance. Unfortunately not much keyboard coverage compared to the Alien one. Although I vaguely remember the clacking of keys somewhere in the movie, excluding the piano of course. I may have to watch it again.

This essay from 2014 is a fascinating look at the Alien movie through the lens of typography:

Alien | Typeset In The Future

It covers the sleek title sequence as well as the iconography from the Semiotic Standard For All Commercial Trans-Stellar Utility Lifter And Heavy Element Transport ...

The wiki is a good place to start.

See here for Round 5 and Round 6 pages:
wiki/Round_5
wiki/Round_6

Note that leftovers are still available for both GB:
wiki/R5_leftovers
wiki/R6_leftovers

I'm talking specifically that one place: where the spring buckles and hits the inside of the barrel. I'd rather leave the flipper feel intact, see. And I'm lazy, so…

As best I can make out, the spring wallops both against the side of the barrel but also against the underside of the keycap. See ...

Anyway, I'm all for damped tactile switches. If people want loud: go clicky.

The interesting thing is that i-Rocks have possibly broken with conventions by dampening their clicky switch. So clicky may not be so loud in this case!

This reminds me of some hybrid switches Chryos once produced by ...

The damped-by-default is a little odd-- if you're trading on the ALPS-style concept, people are probably most familiar with their old white-ALPS Omnikey or FK-2001, or maybe a black-ALPS AT101W. The only "big seller" damped switch was probably the one in the AEKI series. I hope I can pull out the ...

Would be nice to get a couple dozen of these...

Glad to see deskthority on board!

i-Rocks have now launched an Indiegogo pre-order with lots of info in English...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/i-rocks-keyboard-joy-fun-and-alps-traditions#/

Intriguing part is this:

The switch accepts Cherry MX and other keycaps. However, you can’t hand-wiring this switch on cherry ...

Looks way too big up top for many (or any!?) MX caps. Which would be disappointing, let's say! Mind, if the guys behind this have any clues, they won't let that be a problem. We need measurements of the appropriate areas or a hands on to settle this.

Even though the top of the switch housing that ...

Is that a pre-order or crowdfunding on the right-hand side?

obfuscated wrote: 7bit: Still no info on the refund for #773! Any chance it will ever happen?

Did you send a REFUND message to the bot? Once you do that, it can take a couple of weeks if you're unlucky.

Tabloid newspaper The Sun has allegedly uncovered the origin of the homing bump : The ridges on these keys were invented to improve keyboard and typewriters by June E Botich in 2002.

That's right folks... You never saw a raised edge on a keycap before 2002 because they weren't invented yet! That ...

This is the 21st century.

A modern approach to keycaps should be based around a fully modular keycap system.

This would allow the same keycap to be used on a variety of keyboard mounts through the use of adapters: Cherry MX, Alps, Topre, IBM.

This would guarantee keycaps are forward and backward ...

Alps or Topre mount?

It is my understanding that the stems on Matias-Click switches are white and on Matias-Quiet switches they are grey. If this is indeed the case, then you are looking at much more than a subtle difference!

If only it was that simple! But Matias really did change the stem color from white to grey ...

Thank you for sharing your experience with the TEX thin-lip case. I am still curious whether adding silicone foam to the TEX case would have improved the acoustics for you.

I have a Matias Quiet Pro and a V60MTS-Q, and I was really surprised to find that the Quiet Pro sounds a lot lower pitched ...

I like Alps. But I have not been a huge fan of Tai Hao, even though they seem to be one of the only two Alps keycap manufacturers around. I am very grateful that they have some sensible colours for all three of their Alps keysets, even if they are a tad boring. In contrast I find the colours on ...

Please don't hold back... Share your experience with DT!

@bubblebobbler: Is that your Unicomp review published in some other random site?

I also had a recent reply from KBP on this issue. They said that they will soon release a new batch of V60MTS boards that have two additional holes drilled (three holes total) for mounting the keyboard in an aluminum case.

They did it. Looks like KBParadise delivered on their promise to drill ...

I've asked SP about Alps sphericals and they told me they don't want to.
:o

Maybe later ...
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I think we should find some other manufacturer. The tools SP has made for my group buys (and pleasantly uses for all subsequent buys (OK, why not :-) ) and commercial productions ( :mad: ) ) where ...

I can't argue with sphericals!

I see this thread is focused on colorway. But I wanted to share my thoughts on materials and production.

I have a preference for PBT over ABS. But it seems like the default PBT producer for group buys is SP, who have very limited profile options.

I would like to suggest breaking new ground in ...

mpaine wrote: I I'm looking to replicate this beauty from wuzadi on reddit.

The contrast looks a little off in that photo. Compare against this one from the cappening thread:

I think the Mono Legend set could benefit from dark grey tilde and 1.5u backslash keys. For Keyboard Color Symmetry!

Speaking of precision, you guys should try trackballs if you haven't already. Another benefit is that they're obviously stationary so you have a lot more space next to your keyboard. Only problem is they're relatively expensive if you need something with more than two buttons and a decent scroll ...