Deskthority Secret Santa 2015 Photo Thread

[kbdfr]

I wish I would have had that idea

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[andrewjoy]

The blacks are in between milk and dark chocolate like 75% coca or something ?. Loverly!

[matt3o]

very lovely presents this year

[XMIT]

My present arrived on Monday while I was visiting elecplus! MrsXMIT was as excited as I was and even started humming some Mozart once she saw the package was from Austria. We opened this outside as we had some good lighting and it was warm, about 18 C, not bad for late December.

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My, what an assortment of yummies!

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There were still more in the box...

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Now, what is this? It is well wrapped, heavy, and an unusual aspect ratio...

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Wow! Someone knows how much I love buckling springs!!!

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Now I have a destroyer to complement my battleship! Thank You So Much Secret Santa!!!

[Halvar]

"Fragile"? "Bruchgefahr" (danger of breaking)? Not so much!

Briliiant gifts and sweets everyone!

[XMIT]

"Fragile"? "Bruchgefahr" (danger of breaking)? Not so much!

It depends on how you think about it. Any Model M has a danger of breaking other things.

I'm excited to see what else gets posted here!

[Ray]

Very nice gifts everywhere, can't wait to get mine
Also good to hear my gift found a new owner that likes it.

[Chyros]

This is an awesome initiative guys, hope I can join next year .

Are you all supposed to guess who your Secret Santas were?

[jou]

Yesterday, I got a notification from my German proxy that there's a package waiting for me. Since I haven't had shipped anything there lately, that can only mean my Secret Santa gift! So I went to pick it up around noon and circling around to fight for a parking spot among the last minute present buyers.

jou Jr. discovered a wrapped present on the corridor and promptly declared that it was his

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and proceeded to open it

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So what's inside? A PKB-111 POS board with Cherry MX blues. Jr. immediately started to put the caps on (and saying he's fixing Dad's "work thing").

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Thanks Secret Santa! I think I'll use this one to try a Matrix layout. I should have enough of 7bit's grab box DSA caps to fill that board…

[seebart]

Looks like jou Jr. is having a pretty good time with it!

[scottc]

I wish I would have had that idea

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Haha! That is genius.

[kbdfr]

Recycling my post from last year:

Meanwhile, somewhere on the way to me:



Merry Christmas everyone!

[Madhias]

Great photo story, jou!

[7bit]

Recycling my post from last year:

Meanwhile, somewhere on the way to me:

[DRUNKEN SANTA ACCIDENT]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Rumors say, that the drunken Santa at least made it to your closest post office.

[lolpes]

Ok, so first of all, I would like to thank my SS, really, I was not expecting that gift, you made my day! Thank you very much!

Ok so starting with the box, you can see it is big!



On the top there was something very large, at first i didn't get what it was but upon closer inspection:

Hyper7 pcb! (just this would have been an awesome gift!)


Next is G84-4400, going to try this one at work since the one I was using had loud gateron blues :p




And another pcb?? wow really?!

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wait, it's not just a pcb! - G80-11900 with blank caps




Next another bag and one more pcb inside? this is getting better and better :3 and then my little sister points out that there is not just one inside...





3 pcbs! including one that I was planning to buy - hyper micro pcb!

Well, next is something very different for me at least - I have tried alps before, but I have never been interested in them, but upon seeing this, one of those pcbs is going to be an alps build The ones I don't use I will be giving away to some users here



Finally some cables and a bag with a teensy 2.0 and a teensy++ along with some cherry and omrom switches




Did I say finnaly? well sorry but there was still another bag under there, a big bag!





And already used some of the caps in 2 board just to see how they looked, actually writing this on the RS96 as it is pictured, maybe in the near future these caps will be on the Hyper7





Well that's it, dug all the way in the box hopping to find a card with some words from my SS, but nothing in sight Thank you very much really! I had an amazing Christmas this year, got the family all together and had some awesome gifts, but this was by far my favorite!!

[HzFaq]

Holy shit!

[lolpes]

Holy shit!

My thoughts exactly when I opened the box!

[XMIT]

Well, it's pretty clear who your Secret Santa was, so, lucky you! That''s a very generous gift!

[Halvar]

Gosh, that's unbelievable! A very generous Santa.

[ramnes]

OMG

[chiptea]

Wooow. Does this count as the best DT secret Santa gift?

[hypkx]

That are really nice gifts, btw also cool RS96.

[lolpes]

That are really nice gifts, btw also cool RS96.

Thank you loving the SA profile ^^

[seebart]

Gosh, that's unbelievable! A very generous Santa.

Wow Whoever your SSanta is lolpes, he's very generous.

[Compgeke]

In the middle of laundry and packing a box when I got a knock on the door - present's here!

Inside a box we find:

Tenkey section from a KPT(?) board of some sort. Switches are clicky blue KPT switches
Some linear white "Space Invader" switches
Pro Micro controller
Double shot Alps keycap set
Toshiba MK4001MTD (0.85" hard drive - seriously tiny!)
IBM 79F6401 numberpad and 07G3269 mouse (I was trying to find one of these for myself, best thing here)
and candy!

[b4d_tR1p]

and to me nothing?? hehehe

[photekq]

Ugh, I knew there was something I was forgetting to do before I came back to university..

I did receive a nice trackball and some numpad keycaps. I've just forgotten to take pictures of them

Thanks (Second?) Santa!

[scottc]

Numpad keycaps - me too! Maybe our santas are brothers.

[lolpes]

Will try to send My gift tomorrow (finally!) but I have no guarantees xD

[Ray]

What I got (better late pics than no pics?)

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and the back of the caps:

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I wanted to try o-rings before, but didn't get them for some reason. I like them on my thumbkeys, but not so on the alphas.
There's also a bag of POS relegendables. They will probably never see use on a keyboard of mine, but maybe I hook some MX up to an electronics project and want some adequate legends.

Also, has anyone an idea where I could stick those rubber navcluster caps onto?