deskthority

So much for Razer cherry-picking every switch.

Cons of this keyboard:
More of the same marketing bullshit


Although some keys might not be greased properly... but Razer is to be blamed anyhow.

I'm looking at that Through Hole Diagram, and I'm glad Filco addressed a level of fail in the Cherry switch design by a more sophisticated level of fail. Solder is used to make electronic contacts. They applied it to make the key feel more stable or something. You're typing on solder. Other switche...

Actually, I wonder if no products exist to teach your cat not to chew cables similar to the bitter nail polish used to stop kids from nail-biting.

Yeah, just like every car needs to have someone walking in front of it while waving a flag to warn any pedestrians from the incoming danger.

Theoretically and practically, you absolutely , positively , never need NKRO unless you need to detect when the user has pressed all keys down like in the event of flipping his keyboard over and standing on it, or the keyboard (and potentially its user) being buried by an earthquake. Similarly, 6KRO...

That's cheating. Those girls at the Asian meeting at least looked like they ware vaguely interested in the unboxing.

Yes. Also, there were at least two different design of barrel modules - the one in that Datamaster keyboard (and in the XT too IIRC) have the little stud underneath the barrel to ensure correct orientation. Correct, the XT barrel has the extra stud. Now IIRC the barrel even had some slightly altere...

I don't think the keyboard will be killed by the touch screens we see today, but something along those lines sure will. If you think about it, touch screens do allow to combine mouse and keyboard and thus saves on one more clunky device when all you want to do is switch focus from one application to...

Btw, we will have to decide what type of content we put in the wiki and what type of content we rather keep on the board. My suggestion is anything remotely close to a guide should be in the Workshop section, while the wiki only is home to real information. Any other suggestions? I disagree, it's n...

Well, at least you got the box in acceptable shape. Last keyboard I received was wrapped in some cardboard used to ship notebooks. :) As you correctly explained, the real trick here is the heat. However, the way you heat the sticker with a flame scares me a bit. I have removed some stickers from fla...

Some clever use of scripting would allow you to spit out an SVG or PostScript file which you can then render to an image.

From what I remember generating PostScript code it does take a lot of tweaking to get it just right.

Got blues, browns, MY and clears from the Cherry department. So far the clears seem to offer a perfect match of resistance and tactility, all while staying acceptably smooth. The model F AT keyboard's switches still have a special place in my heart, but the keyboard sees less use as it has too few m...