Mechanical Keyboard Club!

[Nowak]

1 minute ago, seon123 said:

• More switch options, maybe even hot swap on mainstream.

Logitech has a hotswap board, the G Pro X, and afaict they're the only mainstream keyboard maker offering this feature right now. Probably a result of their partnership with Kailh, since it uses Kailh's hotswap sockets.

[Scatology]

nevermind

[geo3]

2 hours ago, Nowak said:

So, the new decade begins this week.

 

Going into 2020, what are some keyboard trends you would like to see end in the new year, or even decade? Mine would be:
 

•   Plates without the notches to allow switch opening.

2 hours ago, Nowak said:

So, the new decade begins this week.

 

Going into 2020, what are some keyboard trends you would like to see start in the new year, or even decade? Mine would be:
 

• More plates being offered with matched foam for placing between the plate and PCB
• More plate-to-case mounting options becoming widely available.
• Some manufacture that will make one off key sets to specification: any layout, profile, thickness, material, texture, color way, legending style and combination there of. I don't care if it's expensive as hell, I just want someone to offer it. (For example I want 3mm thick PBT with MT3 profile that has Row4 {[ and }] keys and and Row5 -_ and +=, in the Canvas color way I should be able to order that.)
• Upstroke only silenced switches.
• Beam spring style switches in MX compatible housings.

[alittlepeace]

7 hours ago, Nowak said:

So, the new decade begins this week.

 

Going into 2020, what are some keyboard trends you would like to see end in the new year, or even decade? Mine would be:
 

• Reliance on Cherry switches exclusively in a majority of prebuilts, and also elevating Cherry as a "premium" when there's far better switch makers out there
• Ugly "gamer" fonts on keycaps; that hampers usability more than it looks "cool"
• Ugly over-designed "gamer" casings that take up far more desk space than necessary
• Low profile but not really designs; go all the way if you want to commit to a low profile design
• Non-standard bottom rows; allow keyboard owners to customize their boards easier, please! RGB lighting goes only so far.
• Only making aftermarket keycap sets for the basic 104 key ANSI layout
• Cheap, laser-ablated ABS keycaps on expensive keyboards

- starting to change since the cherry patent expired in the middle of the decade, that's why half those top end consumer boards have their own switches

- starting to change sorta, since chinese companies are starting to knock off popular colorways en masse

- seems to be starting to change since gamer keyboards are moving toward being TKL it seems, as of late
- starting to change also with more proliferation of kalih choc switches
- starting to change sorta, that's why I hope the new Blackwidow succeeds, so it sends Razer a clear message that changing the bottom row was a good move

I think the hobby is effecting mainstream market in a good way :3 

[Nowak]

3 minutes ago, alittlepeace said:

- starting to change also with more proliferation of kalih choc switches

afaict Logitech is the only "big brand" keyboard maker making use of Choc switches, or Kailh switches in general, albeit semi-customized to be better for gaming. Everyone else is still going for Cherry or semi-customized switches from other companies, like Razer's optical switches by DMET.

[alittlepeace]

Just now, Nowak said:

afaict Logitech is the only "big brand" keyboard maker making use of Choc switches, or Kailh switches in general, albeit semi-customized to be better for gaming. Everyone else is still going for Cherry or semi-customized switches from other companies, like Razer's optical switches by DMET.

hexgears has been messing around with it a bit  I kind of wanted the x-1

[alittlepeace]

also outemu has some new low profile switch that isn't nearly choc-low profile, but it *is* shorter, and has a regular cherry stem

[Nowak]

Just now, alittlepeace said:

hexgears has been messing around with it a bit  I kind of wanted the x-1

I wouldn't really call Hexgears "big" but yes, they do exclusively use Kailh switches.

[alittlepeace]

Just now, Nowak said:

I wouldn't really call Hexgears "big" but yes, they do exclusively use Kailh switches.

I want to buy an ergodicity  

[Nowak]

Just now, alittlepeace said:

I want to buy an ergodicity  

Is that a keyboard that uses Choc switches?

[alittlepeace]

Just now, Nowak said:

Is that a keyboard that uses Choc switches?

Yeah, Danny got them in recently and is going to start selling them after he comes back from vacation

[Nowak]

1 minute ago, alittlepeace said:

Yeah, Danny got them in recently and is going to start selling them after he comes back from vacation

Huh, that's nice. There are barely any Choc PCBs out there.

[alittlepeace]

Just now, Nowak said:

Huh, that's nice. There are barely any Choc PCBs out there.

it's going to be a 90 dollar kit :3 

https://keeb.io/products/ergodicity-60-kailh-choc-low-profile-board

[alittlepeace]

[alittlepeace]

[jiyeon]

12 hours ago, alittlepeace said:

 

Sweet board, is that SA Leviathan?

[alittlepeace]

12 hours ago, sowon said:

Sweet board, is that SA Leviathan?

yas :3

[HumdrumPenguin]

So many unordinary boards in here.

 

 

[HumdrumPenguin]

Ducky Year of the Pig Special Edition.

 

 

[Nowak]

Man if I knew I was gonna get a second 96% board I woulda totally bought GMK Umbra as well as Voyage

[geo3]

New toy:

Klippe R3 60% case

Let's put some guts in it.

Black red and gold.

MX Red lubed with Krytox 204, Equalz C3 stabs, brass plate from KBDFans, Maxkeys Stars SA Keycaps.

 

Yeah, it's pretty heavy.

 

 

[jiyeon]

4 hours ago, geo3 said:

Wew, that is a sexy keyboard. That Klippe is heavy, do you have a brass weight on it?

[geo3]

17 minutes ago, sowon said:

Wew, that is a sexy keyboard. That Klippe is heavy, do you have a brass weight on it?

No, it's just a block of solid aluminum. The plate is brass however.  It's more than twice my next heaviest, the blue aluminum 60%, which is like 740 something grams. It's heavier than any 2 of the other ones on the table there put together. And heavier the 2 wooden ones plus any 1 of the other ones.

[jiyeon]

18 minutes ago, geo3 said:

No, it's just a block of solid aluminum. The plate is brass however.  It's more than twice my next heaviest, the blue aluminum 60%, which is like 740 something grams. It's heavier than any 2 of the other ones on the table there put together. And heavier the 2 wooden ones plus any 1 of the other ones.

My heaviest board is my KBDfans 5 Degree at 805g, not too sure how heavy it is with the PCB, polycarb plate, switches etc. inside though. My main board featuring a wooden case and brass plate would probably be half of my 5 Degree build.

 

Could probably become a weightlifter with how heavy cases alone get, but damn the feeling from typing on heavy ass cases feels really nice and sturdy.

[DailyProcrastinator]

On 1/3/2020 at 3:56 PM, HumdrumPenguin said:

Ducky Year of the Pig Special Edition.

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