deskthority

Put a mousemat under the board....... the soft neoprene kind

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?29360

amongst others.....

Because open source code is better

This is opinion not fact. I agree with you, but if you take any person without any knowledge or interest in (re-)programming then something closed-source that works out of the box is 100% better than anything open-source that needs tinkering to make it do ...

The good thing is I found out the Costar stabilizers are actually pretty forgiving.

Indeed, thats what i found when making my own stabi's. The most important thing is that everything is right angled, parallel and straight, half a mm too long doesnt really matter. I do really love your tool tho ...

I haven't tried myself but there's plenty RS232 adapter available ($3-$6) with DE-9 connectors. I do own a couple of these myself but ive never used them as actual standard serial ports.....

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/24512

Basically all keycaps from Cherry MX Swichtes would fit.

As long as you're talking bout the small 1x1 caps (aka alphanumerals). Everything larger COULD get tricky (shift, space, enter, caps, ctrl, alt etc). Also keep in mind that there's different profiles on different rows so if you find a funny ...

If theres still room on the list im in!

UK;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330676623500

ALPS FTW!!!

If you look close enough and are super-uber-picky everything is half-ass finished.....

If i were you i'd check the board a bit better before using it... sound like it may have shorted out a bit in the past. Could be some loose stuff inside....

Oh that looks alot like the tool i use, only mine is longer so i can press the ends of the 'handles' up against each other without over bending (and possibly breaking) the plastic housing top.

mintberryminuscrunch wrote:

Maarten wrote:Hey, those are some funny stabilizers, are they mounted on top of the plate....?

Also, what are the extra diodes for placed at random near some switches?

some switches have their diodes outside, on the pcb

Oh heck, now i see some of the switches dont have diodes indeed! Funky.

Hey, those are some funny stabilizers, are they mounted on top of the plate....?

Also, what are the extra diodes for placed at random near some switches?

Its a non-functional issue really.... If it annoys you just shave it off with a little x-acto knife yourself.Like said, you get what you pay for.

mintberryminuscrunch wrote:[...]noting bad can happen.

Well yeah, i even had a real nice mercury filled glass laboratory thermometer but the wife broke it (go figure) so now i have to use my multimeter with a home-built NTC sensor.... Oh well, at least my multimeter has a an option to use one of those.

Well.... how i plan on doing this is quite simple actually; Ill just grab a really really big pan with water (more mass = more stable temperature when adding anything cold) and ill place a glass beaker with the dye solution inside that aka au baine-marie. The beaker will be on a little tripod inside ...

Just boil clean ol tap-water on the regular stove (wives will let you do that most of the time) and then take the boiled water somewhere else to add the dye and play with it

I SO want a warp button on my computer..... The time button would complement it very well, do you know if those buttons combined will actually give you time-warp capabilities?

Oh darn, i SO want a full set of lead keycaps now....... but then id also need some stronger springs for my switches and only type with gloves on.... But this would make my cat unable to throw the board off the desk again!! OMG or solid gold!!! Would eliminate the glove problem........

Oh man, i really wish i understood all these code things you guys throw at me ;) But yeah, the caps are for that little beast indeed!

Im gonna read up a bit on how these group-buys of yours actually work cuz to me it kinda feels like someone handing you this without any previous knowledge;
http ...

Np, but really keep an eye out for the vacuum cleaner not sucking up any parts or caps.... having to dig that kind of stuff out of a bag full of dust n crap really sucks cuz for some reason itll always fly straight to the bottom (trust me on that, i do this kind of thing on quite a regular basis)

Could be dirt in the switch.... Remove the cap (and surrounding caps), press the stem down with a toothpick or something like that and while doing that put the vacuum cleaner on there for a couple seconds. If the switches are pcb mounted be careful that you dont suck the top of the switch straight ...

gimpster wrote:That's the ROUND3 style, which should also be available.

MUCHO WANT?!?! Quanta costa for a-z 1-0 - = and 7 unit spacebar?

So they are actually white with baby-blue lettering and invisible colored spacebars? I was under the impression that those pics in the OP were just to show layout of the sets? Nvm then, im still a bit new to this thing and i was kinda hoping it would be something like this;
http://xahlee.org/kbd ...

Any pictures on the actual kind of caps?

Has anyone here thought about integrating one into a keyboard? :D

Actually...... i have ;)

One of two things can happen, either i decide this keyboard i made is too thick and ill teensy it and make it very nice and slim.... OR i decide i dont mind the bulkiness and ill toss a Pi inside the case ...

You mean the stabilizer?