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Exit Strategy posted:My dude, I can absolutely work with you to make a case in SpaceClaim this coming week if you want.  How much power does this monster draw?
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Eric the Mauve posted:
Less than you'd think. Look at the image - It's got 32 WS2812C-2020s, which are peak 5mA draw. And since I'm *not* a loving idiot, I've duty-cycled them down in the firmware to where they still reach a frankly uncomfortable brightness but only consume 3mA max. So you're looking at peak 96mA draw for the lights, presuming you turn them white and leave them on all at the same time on max brightness. Or less than a fifth of the board's total power budget. I've been running the same configuration in now three generations of Hard Light and two of Sweet Business. It works really well.
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Exit Strategy posted:Never click 'Submit Reply' before going to check the mail, I guess. Holy poo poo my friend is going to poo poo when he gets this, honestly I might end up getting the next run after. Would you be up to the task of soldering in mill max 3305 sockets? Clicked that that could be a potential solution to getting hotswap for my switch indecisive friend! e: Mostly because I'm pretty sure 3305's are waaaay cheaper in the US than the UK.
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LochNessMonster posted:60% and use caps as mod to use vim keys (or ijkl) to never leave homerow again I love using miryoku on my ortholinear Idobo 75%. It's what I imagined would be possible with QMK before I got my custom keyboard but fully realized and refined. Oh, and, of course, fully customizable with some bravery in C. Home row mods are next level cool. I cringe thinking about my poor pinkies having to stretch and hold Ctrl or Shift in the past.
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How hard is it to put foam in something that was not designed to be user modded? I'd really like to kill the ping in this Kinesis Frestyle Edge RGB, but it has no visible screws that I can see, and I don't see any real teardown videos online. There are also zero premade foam kits for it
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Unsinkabear posted:How hard is it to put foam in something that was not designed to be user modded? I'd really like to kill the ping in this Kinesis Frestyle Edge RGB, but it has no visible screws that I can see, and I don't see any real teardown videos online. There are also zero premade foam kits for it In these instances screws are hidden under labels or possibly in between the switches on the top of the board, obscured by the keycaps. Filling the space between the PCB and case is probably just a matter of buying appropriate thickness poron or something off eBay/Amazon and cutting it to size. Foam between the PCB and top plate might be more effort than its worth, but KBDFans sell little modular precut squares of foam. e: I remember the Corsair K70 having a hidden screw under the top badge for example.
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What is everybody's preference for foam vs silicone? You can get a cheap silicone mold kit from Amazon for about $15 that can be mixed and poured into many keyboard cases.
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Pvt. Parts posted:I love using miryoku on my ortholinear Idobo 75%. It's what I imagined would be possible with QMK before I got my custom keyboard but fully realized and refined. Oh, and, of course, fully customizable with some bravery in C. Home row mods are next level cool. I cringe thinking about my poor pinkies having to stretch and hold Ctrl or Shift in the past. Ortho fam  Everytime I switch back to a normal layout (somebody elses computer/laptop) my pinkies start crying.
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Exit Strategy posted:
Case is currently being 3D printed in my garage for prototyping then once I do a test fit it’ll be off to aluminum fabricators! Crazy how this came around. Props to Exit for being a jack of all trades
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I wanna meet the dude or dudette with a 3d printer big enough to make a case for Sweet Business. I'm totally loving the Sweet Business stuff and hope to see more content along those lines.
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ijyt posted:Holy poo poo my friend is going to poo poo when he gets this, honestly I might end up getting the next run after. Would you be up to the task of soldering in mill max 3305 sockets? Clicked that that could be a potential solution to getting hotswap for my switch indecisive friend! Also curious about mill max sockets/a hot swappable version.
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mariooncrack posted:Also curious about mill max sockets/a hot swappable version. Hotswap is categorically worse in every way than soldered switches, sorry. It restricts the types of switches you can use, sometimes requires modification of the switches, and if done incorrectly - For the record, only two boards I have ever seen have done it correctly - can result in an easy way to rip traces clean off your PCB. The long and the short of it is, if you're uncertain about what switches you want, get a tester. They're not expensive when compared to buying hundreds of copies of six different switches because you're indecisive. I don't know if it's obvious, but my boards can use no less than three kinds of switches - MX-compatible, Alps/Matias, and Kailh Choc.
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Exit Strategy posted:The long and the short of it is, if you're uncertain about what switches you want, get a tester. They're not expensive when compared to buying hundreds of copies of six different switches because you're indecisive. That said you're not wrong about the compromises that come with it nor the weaknesses of common designs so I'm definitely not arguing your choice to trade one kind of flexibility for another.
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wolrah posted:I have a tester and a hot swap board and I can't agree with this, being able to actually use the switches from a sample pack in real world typing is different from clicking buttons on a plastic frame. I would always recommend for those who want to go deeper than linear/tactile/clicky to have at least one hot swap board in their collection. I guess I'm coming at it from the perspective of a person who found his ultimate switch and it's BOX Royal with 250g springs.
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Framboise posted:This is why 65% is probably as low I as I will ever go. I can sacrifice my F row and numpad, but you will never take my arrow keys from me.  Join us.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I wanna meet the dude or dudette with a 3d printer big enough to make a case for Sweet Business. Even cut in half it takes up almost my entire 300x300 bed. Lots of supports for angled areas. 21h per half 
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Exit Strategy posted:Hotswap is categorically worse in every way than soldered switches, sorry. It restricts the types of switches you can use, sometimes requires modification of the switches, and if done incorrectly - For the record, only two boards I have ever seen have done it correctly - can result in an easy way to rip traces clean off your PCB. Love your board but hotswaps are great and have been nothing but reliable for me! Haven't been restricted in cherry clone switch.
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Gay Retard posted:What is everybody's preference for foam vs silicone? You can get a cheap silicone mold kit from Amazon for about $15 that can be mixed and poured into many keyboard cases. Unsinkabear posted:How hard is it to put foam in something that was not designed to be user modded? I'd really like to kill the ping in this Kinesis Frestyle Edge RGB, but it has no visible screws that I can see, and I don't see any real teardown videos online. There are also zero premade foam kits for it It's a considerable effort, but sometimes it's absolutely worth it. Maybe Sneaky Wombat will venture back in here and attest to how the K320 I modded sounds with foam between the plate and PCB. For my Keychron K8 I put butyl mat in the case and it sounds amazing. ...speaking of which I'm actually doing some housecleaning. Anyone need a Bluetooth Hotswap RGB aluminum TKL?    repiv posted:we have to go smaller 
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ijyt posted:Love your board but hotswaps are great and have been nothing but reliable for me! Haven't been restricted in cherry clone switch. This. My first mech was hotswap and I'll never buy one that isn't. It just makes customizing (or repairing) so much easier.
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Framboise posted:What's your map on that? Split spaces are so strange to me. I'd post a pic but I'm mobile right now... Spacebars are tap for space and hold for layers. Delete is actually backspace on layer 0. Layer 1 it's delete. qwe asd zxc is inverted numpad numrow goes across the top row and so does function row uio... is regular numpad. It's full punctuation so that's all the same. WASD is arrows Q is home E is end there's a bunch of other stuff in there too but you get the gist.
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Just got an email the Adafruit Macropad kit is back in stock. Anyone in the thread have any experience with one? Looks awesome aside from the hideous keycaps they insist on using in the promotional materials.  Very tempted to snag one to control a boxed alt when multiboxing EverQuest characters.
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Opioid posted:Even cut in half it takes up almost my entire 300x300 bed. Lots of supports for angled areas. 21h per half CR-10? Did you make those nubs when you cut the model in half?
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mewse posted:CR-10? Did you make those nubs when you cut the model in half? Yeah cr-10 v3. Nubs? I just got Exit Strategy to slice it in half for me in his modeller then I processed through Cura like normal. Gonna be a rough model just to superglue together
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Opioid posted:Nubs?  I thought those might've been for holding the halves together, are they just a brim?
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mewse posted:I thought those might've been for holding the halves together, are they just a brim?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I prefer foam to silicone. I had a couple boards that were stuffed with silicone and it felt like typing on an oven mitt. Thanks for the response! That K8 looks pretty lovely (although I might just be in love with wooden wrist rests, I can't tell). What switches do you have in there and what would you like for it?
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Unsinkabear posted:Thanks for the response! That K8 looks pretty lovely (although I might just be in love with wooden wrist rests, I can't tell). What switches do you have in there and what would you like for it? Those are lubed and filmed (stock springs lubed with GPL105) Banana Split switches from TKC. Everywhere else they're called Machos switches. The stock keycaps are pretty crappy, and not just because they're thin. They feel sort of brittle and don't sound great. I'd been using a set of Drop's Skylight Series White shine through caps to take advantage of the RGB, but with those Banana Split switches in there the effect is greatly diminished. I'd recommend getting some Milky Gateron KS-3 if you care about the backlighting. This is what it looked like with HAKO Clear switches and the Drop Skylight keycaps:  I'll tell you what, you can have the board (current switches and keycaps included), the wrist rest, and the Drop Skylight Series keycaps for $140 + shipping.
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ijyt posted:Love your board but hotswaps are great and have been nothing but reliable for me! Haven't been restricted in cherry clone switch. I mean, I'll be glad to work out soldering in mill-maxes for you. I'm just not gonna guarantee they'll be as solid as soldered switches.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Those are lubed and filmed (stock springs lubed with GPL105) Banana Split switches from TKC. Everywhere else they're called Machos switches. Oh dang, that's a hell of a deal. I'll see if I can sell my partner on it, but (and I should have thought about this before getting excited and asking, I apologize) that may be tough given that I have a second Freestyle Edge coming Sunday so I can compare how it feels w/ linears vs tactiles.You people did this to me. 
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Unsinkabear posted:Oh dang, that's a hell of a deal. Just tell 'em you can always flip it for profit  Exit Strategy posted:Got my WRK caps today. I love this. ...I may be biased though...  
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Y'all are nuts, the more keys the better. I can't wait for that Sweet Business so my desk can look like the control panel of the fuckin' starship Enterprise. Still accepting recommendations for keycap sets for that beast, especially low profile, bearing in mind its backlighting isn't per-key, preferably like $50 or less because
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