Mechanical Keyboards

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Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
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Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

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submitted 1 year ago by transientpunk@sh.itjust.works to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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[–] _danny@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This looks so inconvenient. Glad you like it, but this is 'awful taste, great execution" for me.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll make it even worse for you... It's setup for Dvorak.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Well that’s just sensible unlike the rest

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Possibly the only good thing about this lol

[–] Viatorem@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kinda shit you'd see an alien using in a sci-fi movie lol

[–] arandomthought@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Now you only need the keycaps to be half transparent and light up individual keys randomly and you've got that "visual techno-babble" perfected.

[–] Deltoids@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Would totally make sense in a movie since they just hammer random keys and say random things lol

[–] pixxel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Wow, when I first opened the image it was squished to 50% width, each key looked like a piano key. That was a real wtf moment.

Beautiful looking keyboard

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I love it, exactly what I want to build

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Serious question: How do you type on flat profile without having your hands hurt? I could never get use to flat keys and spherical work the best.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know how to answer you exactly. My hands don't hurt. Maybe it's because of the combo of the ortholinear keyboard and the Dvorak layout causing me to move my fingers minimally.

[–] Sleeping@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Not OP, but I also use flat keycaps, so I thought I'd chime in. I'm not really sure why your hands would hurt with flat keycaps, but one of the reasons I chose to use flats were to allow for easier chording with Plover.

[–] cloudgazing@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has a 3d printed feel from the photo. Did you make the whole thing, case, pcb, keycaps?

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, the keyboard is a kit you can get on Mass Drop. The keycaps were novelty caps from Pimp My Keyboard.

[–] vsis 1 points 1 year ago

40% 👌

[–] Sleeping@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks nice! I daily drove something like this for a couple of years, then transitioned to a split ortholinear layout, so a bit different but pretty much the same thing.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I want to move on to a split ortholinear too

[–] numberedcompany@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Hot swappable? I'm wondering if the sockets are what make the keys sit slightly off square and even, couldn't be the key caps could it?