Interesting Finds & Heads-Ups

I have the cyberspace bbox60 and I added eva foam to make it less noisy but it is still quite loud

I wish they would fix the fixed plastic standoffs by making them lower and then use standalone standoffs so you don’t have to cut out the plastic standoffs that are interfering with the pcb

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Meletrix Zoom65 is in-stock at Cannonkeys. Bakeneko 65 CNC now has two new colors, Rose gold and Silver.

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The Verge is falling deeper into the mech keyboard rabbit hole:

https://store.dftba.com/collections/the-verge/products/keyboard-shirt

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Drop back with the BOGO MT3 sale. I didn’t know they released Dancer in MT3

You could get dasher and dancer for $110 :slight_smile:

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Also, a bunch of PBT MT3 sets this time

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I don’t need more MT3 sets. I don’t need more MT3 sets. I don’t need more MT3 sets. :sweat_smile:

  • Godspeed is very tempting. I wish the Dwarven set was available.
  • Damn. Skiidata looking kinda fine too.
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Not to uh, be a pusher or anything, but Godspeed is a fantastic set.

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Looks like more dwarven sets in stock today

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Cherry profile double-shot caps; stem and legends are ABS, outer shell is PBT. Looking to be a reasonable competitor in the quality-price sweet-spot.

What do you guys think of these? (Some of those posters are neat…)

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Does the interference still happen with a soldered PCB or is removing the unused plastic standoffs a mandatory step for these cases?

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KeebsForAll has KBDfans’ standoff nubbins.

These are burger-mod adjacent, I guess - not as much squish as you’d get from an o-ring. More of an isolation layer than something to add any mobility to the assembly, but also a lot easier to install.

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The form factor they went with is so distracting. How did they still squeeze 4 stabs in a 29 key layout? Huge +1 for their dedication to dedicated arrow keys.

$200 for 2 complete alpha/modifier sets and 6 accents seems like a deal if these are decent quality, but I’m not familiar with the designers.

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The more I look the more I have questions. It’s like a Pain27 and a steno board had a baby, but there were some complications. As an “arrows are necessary keys” fan, I agree.

No idea what’s going on in this corner:

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Finally! I’ve been so wanting to try these to see what all the hubbub is about. The only thing that gets me about burger mounting using o-rings is how much it elevates the keycaps in the case. I hoping these will help with that. Thanks for sharing.

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Depends on if a plastic standoff is at the same position as a diode, surface mount diodes are easier to acidentally remove than through hole. The case comes with metal standoffs to use if you don’t want to remove the interfering plastic ones but then the pcb will be higher up and the removable usb-c hole adapter won’t work

I found a picture of my case but not all standoffs are shown and I taped the unused non-interfering standoffs to prevent any shorts :person_shrugging:

The removal of standoffs is to my knowledge necessary

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I hate you and appreciate you. :melting_face:

Looks like I’ll be ordering some keysets today…probably. Hardscore Dwarven and Godspeed are so nice.

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Savage. Ok, roger that. I really appreciate the heads-up.

Weird, I didn’t run into this with mine - then again I’m currently using a GK61x PCB with it, which may have its nubbins placed such that they don’t interfere with those standoffs.

IIRC there’s actually a hole in that PCB that lines up with one of those and the PCB sits right on it, but the GK61-to-GH-pattern plate I’m using covers that hole.

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Is this that one where the standoffs actually go through the PCB and screw directly into the plate?

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