(Free/Raffle) Election Day 2018 - "Your vote, your keyboard."

[twasa]

Ooof, that one's a real goober to convert. But it has a bell/buzzer! That has to count for something right?

Surely gets my vote for looking suave, the mighty F0 and a bell, but if conversion is difficult, consider this lust but not an entry.

[snacksthecat]

What type of keycaps they all have?

All the caps are fairly thick PBT except the Imposter (can’t recall if they are double shot but they’re pretty thin)

[Muirium]

Standard issue NMB. Which is to say quality, very nicely shaped, reassuringly thick dyesubs. They’re right up with Topre.

The impostor will likely be signature plastics (ancestor’s) thin doubleshot DCS profile, as they look like regular Wyse to me.

[depletedvespene]

In that case, I won't feel any guilt replacing the Impostor's caps with some nice GMK set. Yay!

[cml]

Patriot for nice keyswitches, keycaps and Liberty branding on one of the keyboards. Oh and sensible Enter key arrangement. (I also like Impostor)

[dr_derivative]

I voted for the soldier. I just love that dark grey case

[Dingster]

Imposter....i mean look at that thing

[DatOtherJosh]

The Imposter, with control in proper position and compact(ish) layout

[Engicoder]

The Patriot. The color scheme and layout make it a winner.

[mcmaxmcmc]

I'm really torn of the Soldier and the Patriot too... That cable and the industrial scheme on the soldier and the more usable layout of the Patriot... really can't decide.

[Bass]

Impostor because I actually think red goes surprisingly well with beige.

[Mizar]

Soldier, because of the color, industrial looks and the sound is very solid and satisfying. Also they have that right amount of weird to them due to the weird key layout and of course the F0 key.

Edit: And also because NMB keycaps are the best I've ever used so far when it comes to texture and shape/curvature, at least on the PC122.

[Myoth]

In that case, I won't feel any guilt replacing the Impostor's caps with some nice GMK set. Yay!

good luck finding a GMK set that supports this layout

and DCS is good enough as it is anyway

[depletedvespene]

In that case, I won't feel any guilt replacing the Impostor's caps with some nice GMK set. Yay!

good luck finding a GMK set that supports this layout

and DCS is good enough as it is anyway

Blanks and a sharpie, then. Artisan lettering FTW!

The only thing that worries me somewhat is the R2 1.25U key.

[Myoth]

In that case, I won't feel any guilt replacing the Impostor's caps with some nice GMK set. Yay!

good luck finding a GMK set that supports this layout

and DCS is good enough as it is anyway

Blanks and a sharpie, then. Artisan lettering FTW!

The only thing that worries me somewhat is the R2 1.25U key.

the R2 1.25u, the R1 1.75u and the space-bar are the hardest to find afaik

[depletedvespene]

good luck finding a GMK set that supports this layout

and DCS is good enough as it is anyway

Blanks and a sharpie, then. Artisan lettering FTW!

The only thing that worries me somewhat is the R2 1.25U key.

the R2 1.25u, the R1 1.75u and the space-bar are the hardest to find afaik

Oh, the spacebar stays, that's a given.

[Jimmy54669]

I Vote for The Imposter
- the unusual Layout with this very bright red caps mhh i like
- vintage Blacks
- the retro looking case, is very nice
- the huge spacebar

[snufflecat]

I ended up voting for The Patriot after much thought, even though I would've wished it had the same cable as The Soldier.

[DilbertProgrammer]

I voted for the Patriot. I love the layout and the colorway. Imposter is a close second!

[Shinryuu]

Voted for The Impostor. That board contains a look that reminds me a bit about video games as well. Also, Control and Caps_Lock are swapped, that's a wonderful thing. Might work as a daily driver just fine.

[abrahamstechnology]

Might work as a daily driver just fine.

From personal experience, it sure will!

[snacksthecat]

Reminder that the raffle ends today at 5pm central.

Are you a Cherry-crat or a Space-publican?

[Muirium]

Gotta be Spacepublican, seeing as I have the hots for the Soldier. Nothing like a bit of heat under the collar when in the company of men in uniform to confirm your political place: loudly in the closet!

[snacksthecat]

... and that's a wrap! Polls are officially closed.

In an unprecedented turn of events, we have two winners of the keyboard popularity contest. I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate The Soldier and The Patriot on their tie victory!



Here are the final counts. I counted the results of the poll as well as peoples' "official" votes in the thread.



Now that the keyboard winner(s) have been selected, we'll move onto the human winner of the raffle.

After making this post, I will enter all the eligible names into the random.org raffle picker and select the winner. The results will be posted shortly once I've uploaded a video of the drawing (a lot of these guys are my friends so I'm going to video tape the drawing. No funny business! Plus I like doing videos )

[snacksthecat]

Congrats to Lucar!!!!

[depletedvespene]

Congratulations!

[//gainsborough]

The knife on the soldier in the pic is a nice touch, hahaha.

Congrats, Lucar!

[Sangdrax]

Congrats to Lucar and great celebration raffle you ran, Snacks. Very generous of you to do something like this.

[AdrianMan]

Nice one ! Thanks & congrats to the winner !

[lucar]

I can't believe I won one of the keyboards!! Really , I could'nt believe my eyes when I saw my nickname on the screen!

Thank You snacksthecat for Your generosity and compliments for Your great skills in electronics.

Thank You all for being such a woderful community, I'm always impressed by the great spirit of friendship and sharing mood that this community is able to demonstrate again and again.

I'll do my best to stay on par and share as much as I can , as I'm already doing with my Youtube channel.

Thanks again snacksthecat and everyboy, I'm going to party seriously, I've never seen space invaders switch based keyboards here in Italy!!!

Luca