There's a lot of "caring" in my personal and professional life: elderly/disabled mother, disabled partner, programme participants. Not to mention I'm at that age where questioning my place and value in the grand scheme of things is par for the course. So: largely unproductive this week; what I needed was rest, what I gave myself was procrastination and escapism. A void of executive function.
In other #ergomech#mechanicalkeyboard news, looks like I cleared a random bluetooth disconnection issue that's been plaguing my Fifi keyboard in recent weeks. Thought it was a firmware issue at one point, but I ended up swapping the microcontrollers over to good effect; the left side wasn't sitting properly in its hot-swap sockets but seems to work fine when installed on the right. /shrug
Considering learning Colemak-DH. But I really probably don't need to.
Assembled the Framework 16 and overall pretty happy with it. Some surprises:
High refresh rate display feels gooood
Toolless installation of keyboard
Access to SSD and RAM slightly more work since under the keyboard, but the mainboard is there too, so overall net gain there
Keyboard is average; I miss my Razer
GPU is underwhelming
Ethernet card is CHONKY and juts out
Going to try to get the Framework 13 ordered some time soon to compare. If the iGPU does well enough, then at less the cost (and at a smaller form factor), I might just stick with that instead.
Can confirm that the NuPhy Air60 V2 sits comfortably on top of the existing keyboard. You can type without accidentally pressing any keys on the built-in laptop keyboard.
I really like the low-profile design, the base is really solid, no connection issues, everything works as expected.
The only real problem with this thing is the keycaps. I just broke one by accidentally popping it off. They have these flimsy plastic clips that keep them in the place, and I just knew one would break sooner or later.
Also the black coating has started to wear off on common keys.
Some of you asked for keyboard porn :cch: :key_bananasplits: :key_lavender:
Akko MG108B Taro Purple (V3 Cream Yellow Pro Switches). Feels amazing while typing. Camera unfortunately doesn’t show the true colour too well though, it’s a lot less grey than it looks.
Had this unbuilt keyboard prototype lying around for way over a year now.
Fully finished PCB with working firmware and everything.
Most of the parts for the case already 3D printed out just waiting for assembly (only thing missing is the switch backplate)...
I even got really nice looking color matching keycaps for it.
One of those projects I guess 😶
I should probably finish it...
7PM Pacific (two hours from now) I'll be doing a relaxing, no frills build #stream of my latest samd21pad macropad #keyboard PCBs to verify some final tweaks to them. Come join me at https://twitch.tv/petejohanson to see some fun drag #soldering action.
Post your daily driver keeb. Doesn’t have to be mechanical. Here’s mine (minus the artisans, they’re just window-dressing whenever I take it to meetups). #Mechanicalkeyboards#mechanicalkeyboard#mechkeys
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!!!
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.