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Got the mouse today. First impressions are good , its decent build quality and feels nice in the hand. At 4000dps its way too sensitive for me, 1600 is the sweet spot for me. <snip> Anyone want to buy a performance MX? It sounds like you need to reduce your mouse speed or acceleration settings. Per...

Muirium wrote: ↑<snip> With a keyboard as small as the OneHand, there's no way to have meaningful legends on it unless you printed them yourself. <snip>

Getting consensus on the legends might be the difficult step. SA and others seem able to churn out custom keycaps.

Yeah, well, they often just switch the LEDs with a FET that can take the current. PWM and bigger resistors have the same effect - reducing average current, and reducing brightness. PWM might not be the best choice if peak current is still over the 500mA USB limit! <snip> Do you want to be able to d...

How do you keep track of what is programmed on each key? The factory keycaps for some keyboards have 3 or more legends printed.

Why folding? I'd think that a thin 60% keyboard, with a protective cover over the keys, would be easily transportable. The folding aspect introduces a lot of complications.

collector of junk wrote:what about acrylic gloss spray varnish may not last forever but shouldn't do any harm

That would require multiple coats of finish, and wet-sanding between coats.

Could buy the cheapest POS terminal keyboard on ebay and have ~122 victims to practice on.

Since the original IBM keycaps are dye sub'd, you could buff them to a high shine using a cloth buffing wheel. You'll need to research what buffing compound is appropriate for that type of plastic.
https://www.google.com/search?q=buffing ... or+plastic

Soarer wrote:Maybe use induction - the barrel is ideal for forming a coil!

Would be interesting if that could be part of the resonance circuit for the Model F capacitive switches. But I'd guess that's very low power.

webwit wrote:The days keyboards came with a pen holder...

My boss used to collect pens from computer companies -- promotional pens with a computer company logo. He likened them to a car company giving away buggy whips.

To reduce the sound, look beyond just the switches. The body of a guitar makes the strings much more efficient at producing sound. Similarly, the keyboard PCB, switch-mounting plate, and case affect the pitch and amount of noise the keyboard radiates. For example, you might experiment with packing t...

Phew! That surface mount stuff is something I need to practice before I'm the least bit confident. It's a lot easier with a stereo microscope and a really good soldering iron. Also very fine solder or solder paste, solder wick, and good tweezers. Stereo microscopes are abundant on ebay -- a model w...

tinnie wrote:Paypal wants some info of a transaction which doesn't fucking exist in my pp account.

Paypal should be able to see that from their side too. They should be able to give you the transaction unique ID.

I'd like two of the Kishsavers, please.

I always wondered if they really existed, of if it was all Photoshop. Next, you'll be offering Himalayan Yetis.

Another thought -- ask the seller if he'll remove the keycaps. That would significantly reduce the shipping. I believe someone organized a group buy a couple years ago doing just that.

I believe this is what you're looking for: http://www.ebay.com/itm/151071023024 That fellow has been offering these for a while, so he must have a number of them. Note the modifier row -- 1x modifiers and 6x space bar. These may not fit your layout. Also note that these are MY switches, so the locat...

That explains why almost everything has been out of stock for the last few months.

Kinda' sounds like a ground fault; the electrical ground in the keyboard circuitry is not solidly connected to the electrical ground in the computer. This allows the logic signals to float around as the ground bounces in response to data signals. Alternatively, the termination on the data lines migh...

Did you test whether MEK would dissolve it?

The membrane switch is inexpensive and easy to assemble for large volume production -- but setup and tooling are expensive. Have you thought about just using discrete switches on a flexible (thin) circuit board? The switches could be a thin strip of beryllium-copper -- perhaps harvested from a scrap...

I'd like to order these:
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=16086565425
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=7379547734
Include in the U.S. shipment, please.