deskthority

I'm super interested in famiclones, especially the ones from china that have keyboards. Here's one that you could get but probably shouldn't.


box is pretty cool

I really like the legends on the caps, however they appear to be very fragile from what I can tell. I suspect whoever was tinkering with this thing before I got it added them.


and here we have why I got the board, alps style KPT in a keyboard seems to be pretty uncommon, but a white slider version hasn't been spotted until know as far as I'm aware. the nice caps (tai hao doubleshots with some sort of printing for the sublegends) and cool box were nice to get as well but the switches were my primary interest




unfortunately for me this thing is a jank pile of parts and not a viable machine. This was almost certainly a project that someone was tinkering with for whatever reason and it looks like they never really got it working. Hell, a lot of the switches in the numpad aren't even soldered to anything. The switches are glued in because the plate cutouts are the wrong size for these switches and so glue is needed to hold them in place as the clips on the switches don't have anything to clip on to.

unfortunately the switches are too tall in one direction and insstead of getting new switches the previous tinkerer just decided to file off some of the housing to make them fit. This has the effect of fucking them up if you do it wrong and expose a click leaf. This is a huge shame and instead of having a board with nice caps and recoverable switches it's a board with nice caps and switch parts.

I tried the top housing and slider in different KPT switch I had laying around and it doesn't quite work unfortunately so all these switches are really good for is springs and leaves. I kept the sliders and top housings as well just in case I need to repair some KPT with this type but I don't expect to really come across anything like that.

no idea who made the keyboard PCB but there;s their branding. This clearly wasn't the correct PCB for this machine and who knows where a brainless TKL PCB for 3-pin omron-style switches would have even come from.

Interestingly there was a single steel click leaf in one of the switches. It's identical in shape and feel but this is the first time I've seen one like this.

Only other notable thing about these switches is that they're branded "E&E" on the bottom, which is a name I've seen before but know nothing about.

What a bizarre unit. I love the caps, the box, etc.. But it does look like it was a project of a little, mad professor - a "my first soldering iron" type affair!

I just bought a board with the KPT Blues and they are pretty rough feeling even though the board itself didn’t appear to be heavily used.

But the caps on yours look pretty awesome. Plus, they haven’t yellowed yet, so I think it’s worth it for that alone.

Also, the wiki: wiki/KPT_switch also states that “No keyboards have yet been discovered using the Amber version of the switch.” I guess this one count? Not sure.

I don't think this counts honestly. The switches were clearly added as a user mod, so if someone finds one of these machines it will probably have a normal alps clone in it or something along those lines and not KPT.