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Well, if it is a Texan company then it is likely targeted to USA which has almost 2 times higher GDP per capita than Germany. People have more money, keyboards can be even more expensive and still sell.

All types of hot-swap sockets I've seen have been surface-mounted, and I think the process of soldering them can be completely automated on standard equipment. Well, the switches still need to be inserted to the sockets. But yes, in general, surface mount is cheaper. But I'm responding because of o...

I don't understand why soldered keyboards cost more than ones with hot swap sockets. You cannot compare products targeted to Germany with products targeted to China (which possibly may also be sold to G7 countries). There is very likely a difference in the level of support / warranty. But one also ...

Expensive and not ergonomic.

There is an advantage to soldered switches. The connection between a switch and its receptacle will not fail.

Maybe you can find some indicators to detect formaldehyde to check the hypothesis. E.g. chromotropic acid method, spectrophotometric methods. Hospitals use some formaldehyde detectors to check their sterilization equipment (this is not likely to detect very low concentrations though). Anyway, the po...

I kind of assumed you want to de-smell only the switches. Big vacuum chambers can be bought. They are pricey though. Maybe you can make one from a thick walled sewerage pipe. Run your design through some FEM package to check it will not implode. Test safely before actually using. It is a good idea t...

Vacuum chamber should help. You can try a higher temperature as well. It should be safe up to around 65 °C.

I liked gaming on Kinesis Advantage. Lots of keys near home position. Some keys on thumb cluster. I defined keys in the game (so that I do not need function keys themselves). Keys can be remapped in the keyboard itself as well but Kinesis Advantage does not support configurations ... therefore not r...

I use my branch of chrisandreae's firmware: https://github.com/hercek/keyboard-firmware At the time I was deciding, it was the only one with the proper on-the-fly macro and remap features. A possibility to define macros/programs in a GUI application (likely something like Vial for QMK now) was only ...

Use a different firmware or get a patch for QMK which will use a standard keyboard descriptor. You may lose some features (e.g. the Vial GUI will likely not work when the keyboard uses the standard descriptor). But the pathch can be done in such a way that you could activate full QMK functionality (...

... or maybe USB Ninja uses QMK (like) descriptor when triggered as a keyboard.

USB Ninja is transparent only when inactive (not triggered).

Here is the device descriptor for my keyboard: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1d50:6028 OpenMoko, Inc. Teensy 2.0 Development Board [ErgoDox Keyboard] Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 0 [unknown] bDeviceSubClass 0 [unknown] bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor...

I just wonder what set it off NOW. I've been using this keyboard for years. And it worked fine for a few hours and then something happened that triggered the alert. Based on your 1st post you updated controller and firmware on your keyboard recently. PC scans USB bus for the connected devices anyti...

Get a patch for your firmware so that the keyboard is behaving as a standard USB (boot) keyboard when connected to a PC. If you need extensions to the standard protocol then make them optional and activate them only when not connected to company PC. You may need to cheat on VendorId and ProductId as...

Well, I do not know. It looks just line another standard keyboard without a numpad. It is not ergonomic. No programmability. Unnecessary big space bar but missing application key and right windows and alt key. F-keys in a layer but layer-shift key not easily reachable. One of the hundreds of the ver...

I'll start worrying when (not if; when...) chat-GPT becomes aware that it's shameful to be identified as such, and dumbs itself down to the level of the average, illiterate human bean. Problem with LLMs (i.e. also ChatGPT) is that they lie in about 20% of the cases. They do it with a great confiden...

I found out that ordering keycaps on aliexpress works very well for good prices, No custom hassle when delivered to EU. But you may not be able to get the fancy stuff. No fancy Signature Plastics caps.

@moon: Any functionality which requires a custom keyboard driver on your PC would not work when you connect it through a separate controller.

If it is this one then it uses ATmega32U2 without external EEPROM. That means 1024 B of internal EEPROM and only 32 kB FLASH. Not really usable. At most 450 keys in macros if you are really lucky.

I use that firmware with ATxMega. It works fine. Many new (mostly ARM based) MCUs do not have any EEPROM. It is not a big deal. They have a lot of FLASH. And you can store to FLASH. It is just much more code to handle FLASH storage and sometimes(*) when you have hard realtime requirements it may be ...

You need to have enough EEPROM available to implement it easily. Many MCUs do not have it. Some have it but small amount: e.g. Atmega32u has only 1 kB. One remap map will take about 110 bytes which leaves you about 900 bytes for macros after some bytes are used for config data. So you are left with ...

You can learn both. Provided both keyboard have almost the same layout, e.g. both are more or less qwerty but one is row staggered and the second one is column staggered then most of your skills will be transferable (i.e. which key is pressed with which finger). You will not forget the old layout if...

Can acrylic handle the pressure from a rivnut?
I know they can be used with carbon fiber composite but I have never seen them in acrylic.

Glue may be a good option too if the plastic is not transparent ... or it is transparent and you do not care about the looks. Why not use solvent as a glue and press things together? Should result in decently transparent interface I never tried it. It may work well. Some practice may be needed so t...

Do you just screw into the plastic, or is there another solution that you use? When I use a soft plastics (like ABS) then I just screw them in. The (wood) screw will cut its own thread.If the plastic is a bit harder (e.g. PLA) then you can heat the screw with e.g. a cigarette lighter before screwin...

It is called insert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoAji1iq_nk

I do not use them. You will get slightly weaker joints by cutting threads into acrylic or by using wood crews into softer plastic (e.g. ABS) without threads (wood screws will cut it's own thread).

Muirium wrote: ↑

14 Jun 2023, 21:27

1u Backspace is horrible.

That is because you have it in the top right corner. Put the 1u backspace on the left thumb cluster just below the thumb rest position (like e.g. Kinesis Advantage does it). Then it is just fine being 1u.

Check (with a magnifying glass or better with a microscope) whether the PCB is not damaged somewhere (scratched trace, broken part, ...). If damaged then try to fix it (reconnect the trace, replace the part, ...). If it looks OK everywhere then you may have caused an electrostatic damage. This typic...

Looks like the original owner used something damaging instead of soldering flux or bathed in something nasty after soldering ... You likely do not need to de-solder everything. You should clean everything and if the traces are not physically damaged then re-flowing the solder should be enough. If yo...

Tipro keyboards are entirely programmable. Only in one interpretation of the word. Some keyboards are truly programmable in all senses of the word. Here is a sample program running in a keyboard: https://github.com/chrisandreae/keyboard-firmware/blob/public/compiler/examples/mouse.kc There are not ...