deskthority

That is very likely the most over built foot in the history of keyboards, I love it.

Plastic and fiberglass can continue to off gas volatiles for decades, keeping it in the plastic bag most likely concentrated it on the surface, try leaving it in a well ventilated place out of the sun for a few days to see if that lowers the smell.

RPi are reprogrammable micro controllers,IT literally has no way of knowing if it's a Mini-M or hacking tool that looks like a Mini-M.
They are doing their jobs and that job is to be paranoiac about anything/everything touching the company network.

If it weren't for the fact that non split boards make my wrists scream in agony after an hour of use I'd be all over this,really wish they would do a split version.

CoolerMaster should only stay within their limits here.

Keep making the HAF styled cases because I love them to bits but stay away, from anything related to KEYBOARDS.

Even their mice are somewhat suspect here, eventually fail or break down but their keyboard obsession should be dropped ...

Muirium wrote: 08 May 2023, 17:19 Lem? For phantomatics or intellectronics? Either one may be a tad on the slow side.

If you haven't seen it the original Solaris is excellent,much better than the Clooney version.

Depending on the model you may be able to order a replacement membrane and controller from Unicomp.

Dye sub is much much cheaper/easier and they aren't going to spend extra money they don't have to.

rare specimen! pretty sure you could sell off easily if you dont like it.
if you have a minute it would be great to know what you think of the switches.


Have to wait for the Tinkeyboy adapter to get here. 3-4 weeks from The Philippines to the US. I don't know if I have the patience to wait ...

Best keyboard is the one that feels good to you when using it

This is mine,a BFO-9000-



Probably not something most would use but it works for me.

There are pcb's designed to use either MX or Alps,my BFO-9000 can use both and also Kailh Low Profile Choc switches as well.

kbdfr wrote: 21 Jun 2022, 07:13

cjizzer wrote: 21 Jun 2022, 06:31 […] desolder the switches […]

Agreed,that beauty is mint and has a perfectly functional layout,no reason whatsoever to desolder.

Maybe put a thin layer of something soft under the wire to keep it from pinging on the plate?

Maybe try turning it 90 degrees? Looks like they are a little wider than they are tall.

I prefer ortho and have been using a BFO-9000 for a few years now and love it.

When I put my BFO-9000 together I used these M2 parts- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014K ... UTF8&psc=1

Had all the parts I needed and pretty damn cheap.

The Numpad being moveable to either side is a feature more keyboards should emulate.

Are they stabilised? That right “Space” key is in for a bad time if I ever typed on it. I hit on its right edge, 90% of the time.

Actually, the evidence of recent shine suggests I’m more or less in its middle:

https://deskthority.net/download/file.php?id=72778

Still asking for trouble with ...

First one,just change the white to Joker purple and it would be my dream color combo.

Left is good,though I prefer to split the alphas and have the numpad in the middle.


I personally like 75% layouts which remove the nav cluster and instead have a numpad. Perfect best of both words since the numpad has almost the whole ass nav cluster redundant
http://www.overclock.net ...

I daily drove Logitech G15 gen 1 which in sheer width puts all but the widest Model F to shame!

Booyeah! Confirmed.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/1*wxD-CFkm_HpqovitVxLPpQ.jpeg

Honestly, I prefer them putting things to the left of the 60% alpha block. That board's almost ...

Polecat wrote: 31 Jan 2022, 02:04

jsheradin wrote: 31 Jan 2022, 00:58
I've had great luck with TMK on a Teensy. You usually need an external pull up resistor though.

Thank you! Resistor isn't a problem, more here than I can count.

QMK is also good,used it with an AEK II for a couple weeks a long time ago.

You never notice how useless Caps Lock is until you've spent a couple years using a board that doesn't have one and then use some one else's and you keep hitting the useless damn thing when you go to hit Ctrl.

No problem,I made a few errors when I was making my custom plates so I know the feeling.

I think you need to put the layout in the upper left corner of the box if you're using http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/ ,putting it any where else results in large empty areas.

You can drag your mouse cursor to select the entire block and move it all at once to the desired position with the ...

The trick to using 2U POS caps that span 2 switches is to cut the spring in the second switch in half,makes it feel much nicer,you will have to replace the spring if you ever want to use that switch again though.

Windows has no issue with multiple keyboards,at one point I had 3 of them plugged in because I was compiling and testing firmware on 2 of them.

BFO-9000 with a custom plate that puts the arrow keys and nav cluster to the left on the left side,you can get laser cut plates that leave the arrow keys isolated.

Something like this maybe,you can also get a plate cut that puts both halves together as a single plate if you would prefer a non split.

Signature plastics has 2u POS keycaps that span two switches in DSA and DCS profile,I use the DSA ones with an MX black switch that has the spring cut in half as the second switch and it's pretty smooth.

Thanks for all the input, guys! And thanks for the solid clarification on the language, Mu. It's funny, when I was upgrading my PC a few months ago, I decided to not hold back on a motherboard. However, the limiting factor for me was a native PS2 port :lol:

So it sounds like I should try and ...