While this isn’t everything, it is a little bit of what the postman dropped off today…
Anyone know how to get rid of the spring ping in these bad boys??!! SHEEEESH! 
I feel like typing on these bad boys for about an hour is enough to make anyone’s Significant Other change their Facebook status to: “It’s Complicated”
The ping is where it’s at! You just need a nice hollow case to amplify it!
I think I have just the case!! 
Are you suggesting wiring up a small microphone inside the case plus stereo out connections?
chocolatier looks so tasty, i wish there was a second run (in mtnu maybe?)
love the colour of chladni, turned out well
Neat! I like the color, however it definitely looked more red than purple in the renders.
AF SA has a discount Chocolatier clone colorway. It’s not 100% but it’s suggestive at least
MTNU 800 isn’t the same as Chocolatier, but is pleasantly brown
Isn’t the original Atari 800 keyboard darker brown, almost black?
I remember not liking the color much when it first came out but they look better in retro hindsight. 
Alps are super simple to work on:
Sounds pretty reasonable for something in this hobby…
LOL so true. Although Mk.com is a out out of ALPS springs last time I checked. RNDKBD still has them in stock though. Also Kailh Choc springs are the same size as ALPS springs too if you ever cant find any ALPS springs.
If I understand correctly, the 800 had a handful of permutations that were all a little different - same computer, but different switch arrays and keys. I believe they were mostly beige enclosures with brown keys, but I think there were something like 3 or 4 different possible ones you might end up with if you include the XL models.
Kind of a rough image but here is my dusty ol’ 800 XL with MTNU 800 and SA Chocolatier for comparison.
The keys on mine are indeed a darker brown, but only by a little - say, like a chocolate bar that’s 90% cacao instead of 80%.
Chocolatier’s mods are a little lighter while being more saturated, while the alphas are significantly lighter.
Another aside about how these relate; I have reason to think the tooling used for these 800 XL keys is what SP later adapted into their SA tooling for MX keys. The key shape and typeface are identical, and I do happen to know that SA for MX was adapted from something else - could be they just polished-out the texture and added the stems - and if not, I don’t think they could have made them match more closely if they tried in terms of shape.
Astral light. Originally part of the exit scam from Project KB, so I was able to purchase this base set and novelties from Novelkeys at a reduced price
I need to find a purple TKL that this can go on. It looks good on my frog, but it’s hard to work in the R1 novelties.
A Yunzii AL71 of my own - I bought this to fiddle with and use as a non-precious daily driver after customizing one for someone and liking it more than I expected to. It’s a budget board for sure - but also shows how crazy far they’ve come in the past few years.
I actually have a full review of this thing written, I just haven’t formatted and published it yet. 
Today was a very special mail day.
Apple made a limited number of design engineering prototypes of the “Cassie” keyboard.
I spent the better part of my life thinking that frogdesign’s mockup was just that, a foam and wood prototype.
Turns out they built it, and it’s real, the engineering behind it is elaborate and fascinating, and now I have one.
The interface board converts the (in the words of ADB engineer Mike Clark “quite complex” protocol) 1/8 inch jack to ADB, so theoretically this board could be coerced to work on an old-school Mac.
ah really like those keycaps
Reminds me of the keyboard on portable Apple IIc prototype. Its keycaps weren’t that pleasant to type on compared to original Apple II. YMMV, of course.
