Mechanical Keyboards

tojikomori, 3 months ago

The last few nights I've been working on swapping the stock springs in my T1 Shrimps for these longer multi-stage ones. The longer springs are slightly lighter than the stock ones but they don't bottom out as quickly.

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wjrii, 3 months ago

Just finished up this one. No-stabilizers, handwired custom 98% layout. 3D printed case and feet, plate laser cut from 3.2mm Masonite, blank XDA laser dye-subbed in a Josefin Sans Medium font. Not exactly professional fit and finish, but it types nice with Box Jades, and ZERO STAB RATTLE! ZERO!!!

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apfel, 3 months ago

Final iteration of the Padavan keyboard, my normalest borb :)

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Angled top/front view of the Padavan keyboard with 3dp case. It's a Minivan layout plus arrows and a small numpad. 4 rows, 12.75u main cluster, exploded spacebar and arrows, 11-key numpad. The case is a rosy pastel color.
Angled front/side view of the Padavan keyboard with 3dp case. It's a Minivan layout plus arrows and a small numpad. 4 rows, 12.75u main cluster, exploded spacebar and arrows, 11-key numpad. The case is a rosy pastel color.
Top view of the Padavan keyboard with 3dp case. It's a Minivan layout plus arrows and a small numpad. 4 rows, 12.75u main cluster, exploded spacebar and arrows, 11-key numpad. The case is a rosy pastel color.

kim, 3 months ago

[storms through the door out of breath] IT'S 40S DAY!!

#40sday #mechanicalkeyboards

Two 12-column keyboards. The top is a metallic sage green with cottagecore witch themed keycaps. The bottom has a white case, large brass screws, and breakfast food themed keycaps.
A 12-column ortholinear keyboard featuring a southpaw tenkey pad. It is in all white with bright blue dingbat keycaps.
A 12-column unibody split layout keyboard. The standard keys are pink and feature Japanese sublegends. The modifiers have geometric icons, and one of the spacebars has a sleeping kitty.

shooboo, 3 months ago

Happy #40sDay y’all! #ergomechkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboards

photobix, 3 months ago German

„Gossen ANSI-DE“ ist, so glaube ich, die korrekte Bezeichnung
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petejohanson, 3 months ago

Happy #40sDay to all you #MechanicalKeyboard users!

We've got:

1. Blank Slate wireless ortho, with KAT Mizu keycaps, lubed Akko CS Lavender switches, in the Drop high profile Planck case

2. Technikable low profile wireless ortho, with choc whites switches and MBK legend keycaps in the Ultem color polycarbonate Technik case

3. Le Capybara #Topre split column stagger, with 45g KLC domes, no silencer rings, and MT3 Operator keycaps, in a 3dp Sporkus case.

All naturally running @zmk

12x4 low profile ortholinear keyboard with HHKB style blockers on the bottom row. Grey and white keycaps with a red 2u accent thumb. Around the keyboard on the desk are various electronic components and tools, e.g. a multimeter.
34 key unibody split keyboard with white keycaps with grey and purple accent keys, in a galaxy black case, resting on a small light brown knitted mat.

amokleben, 3 months ago

Happy #40sday!

Q-Saver 3DP case with QEZBerry inside.
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opendev, 3 months ago

Happy #40sDay!

A showcase of my favorite boards.

• MX Crkbd (6x3)
• Choc Crkbd (5x3)
• Splaytoraid
• Banime40
• Yiffre
• Monorail Jet
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edit: added more information for every keyboard in image description

Three Keyboards on a desk mat. At the left side a Banime40 Keyboard, on the right a Yiffre Keyboard and at the bottom a Monorail Keyboard. - Banime40 Banime40 PCB by sporewoh, Case by sporewoh, Boba U4 switches, MT3 /dev/tty R3 keycaps - Yiffre Yiffre PCB by yussufacik, Case by Communitymember, Invokeys Daydreamer switches, MT3 Susuwatari keycaps - Monorail Monorail PCB Jet-Layout with Case by Kiser, Durock Shrimp switches, KAM Superuser keycaps

kitchen, 3 months ago

ok, last #40sday post from me

I went to a keyboard meetup a couple of years ago and brought a bunch of the fam with me.

Then I went to a different meetup all the way in DC and brought a bunch of the fam with me PLUS lots of others did. Huge pile of keyboards on the table.

Some day I should bust out the whole collection and lay it out. I'd need a much larger table though haha

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same table later, some keyboards have changed around. there’s a large plush mx switch and keycap and a couple of beverage bottles.
my setup at a meetup: going row by row starting from the top left: Osprette by S’mores, choc robin switches, mbk rainbow color caps reviung41 with chocv2 switches and some random kbdfans NP caps an apple magic keyboard with touchid “because everyone needs a gaming keyboard” 🤣 corne with choc mini switches (they are completely terrible), “band of rejects” mbk keycaps absolem with zilent v2 switches and some random kbdfans NP caps A typematrix 2030, the board that got me away from pain rectangles way back in 2010 or so zaphod with choc robins, mbk colored and “holo” (prototype) keycaps cornelius with boba u4 and MT3 extended 2048 caps architeuthis dux (aka a.dux) with choc robins and mbk keycaps, mounted to manfrotto mini tripods using splitkb tenting pucks corne-ish zen with “clurpz” (choc purpz switches modded with clickbars to make them clicky) and mbk various color caps reviung34 with durock t1 silent and KAT cyberspace keycaps reviung41 with boba u4 and random kbdfans NP caps zaphod “lite” with choc robins and mbk color caps

markstos, 3 months ago

Some #MechanicalKeyboard fans are celebrating the 40th day of year with #40sDay and photos of their keyboards that are 40% or less the size of a full size keeb.

Here’s my Unicorne by Boardsource and a custom cable by MechCables. Each half of the keyboard includes a joystick.

The keyboard layout is described here: https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layout/

#corne #ergomechkeyboards https://fosstodon.org/@petejohanson/111902713748820621

kitchen, 3 months ago

in honor of #40sday, here's my current daily driver.

Reviung34 with Boba u4t switches, MDA Future Suzuri caps. Powered by a nice!nano using a batt!pack for battery connection and power switch, and a nicehatharry to attach the nice!view display

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xtaran, 3 months ago

Happy #MechanicalKeyboard #40sDay!

My favourite ≤ 40% keyboards:

1. custom #WorldspawnsKeebs #Shambles (world's smallest #TKL 😉) in fluorescent acrylic with #Nephlock #GMK #Kaiju (bought from Drop)

2. #Ziptyze #Zlant (bought from #1UpKeyboards) with SA #Vilebloom

3. #TheVanKeyboards (#TVK) #MiniVan with GMK #Paperwork — IMHO the most usable 40%

4. #PyrooL #Alpha28 (sub-30% bought from WorldspawnsKeebs on Etsy) with GMK Pulse #Mitolet (from Drop)

Thanks to @petejohanson for the idea!

A Zlant keyboard (designed by Ziptyze and sold by 1UpKeyboards) with SA Vilebloom as keycap set. The keyboard has a uniform stagger, i.e. every row of keys has an offset of ¼ key width to the next row, hence filling the gap between ortholinear and classic staggered keyboard layouts. It's a keyboard just consisting of three layers of white PCB material, but it has no frame so you nearly don't see anything of it in this top-down shot. The keycaps show a (stepped) gradient slanted in the opposite direction as the keyboard's rows are slanted. Left side is navy blue on pale yellow, then there are two columns white on salmon pink, then one row white on old rose, and the right side including the 2u space bar is all white on navy blue.
A Minivan keyboard from TheVanKeyboards (TVK) with aluminum frame and the GMK Paperwork (design IIRC also from TVK) keycap set. Most of the keycaps are medium grey on light grey with the cursor keys having a slightly darker light grey as base color. Tab, Shift, Enter Backspace, one the two short spacebars and the menu key have inverse colors (light grey on medium grey). The for bottom left keycaps have the base colors yellow, cyan, purple and green with legends in a darker tone of the same color. These colors are reminiscent of neon markers on recycling paper with a checked pattern. Black background.
An Alpha keyboard, designed by PyrooL and sold by WorldspawnKeebs. As "Alpha" is a very ambiguous name, many call it Alpha28 as it only has 28 keys: 26 "alpha" keys (hence probably the original name), a 2u spacebar and a key left of the L key which can be used as layer switch key or Enter key, … The keyboard has a half-ortholinear and half-staggered layout consisting of just three rows of keys. The two upper key rows have each 10 1u keys and are ortholinear to each other and contain the letters QWERTYUIOP, ASDFGHJKL and a key labeled "Data". The bottom row has 7 1u keys (ZXCV and BNM) and a 2u space bar between V and B. It's a keyboard just consisting of one layer of white PCB material and two layers of transparent acrylic, so you nearly see anything of the "case" in this top-down shot. The keycap set is GMK Pulse Mitolet, i.e. cyan on purple. It's sitting on a sun-lit sandstone window sill.

apfel, 3 months ago

January 40th is finally here! Happy #40sday to those who celebrate :blobcatheart:

Some pics of #mechanicalkeyboards for the occasion...

Le Chiffre keyboard, wireless edition, purple with matching nail polish.
A bare-PCB Zilpzalp keyboard sitting in a rose bush in front of a flowering cherry tree.
The 18-key Teenspirit keyboard, with a spare PCB and a 3d-printed X-Wing miniature in matching color.

thpoll, 3 months ago

Did I mention that the #PolyKybd can do Emojis..? #MechanicalKeyboard