Peripherals Mechanical Keyboards

where do traces from the left arrow go? (left as in looking at that picture)

If you are buying 0805 resistors - get them from cpc at farnell - as there is no minimum purchase for postage, and postage is free. My all time lowest buy from them was 28p!

 

I'm probably biased because I own one, but I'd say yes. If you can live with a 60% layout they're nice boards. Alternatively Shrop / Pexon PCs has some new similar boards just arrived, pictures are back a few pages.

 

Here's a bigger picture of mine:



And here's the one I took of JaccoW's:



I saw the crazy low prices at CPC - thanks for the heads up too!

 

yeah they aren't the cheapest for the bits always - but, farnell you have to spend 20 quid, and rs have high postage, and I always find there prices high, but you get free postage there over 20 quid. Those are the only 3 places I really use. CPC also doesn't have the biggest stock range, but they have plenty of smd resistors

The sneaky code trick is a good one!

 

Damn Nostalgia looks good!

 

My biggest regrets in my keyboard life are not getting in on Ivan's CMYK, purple mods or GMK spacebars, and to a lesser degree CMYW. I would kill a man for a cyan and/or green spacebar right now... I mean, I suppose I need to buy my lovely girlfriend birthday/Christmas presents and I suppose I need a working fuel pump in my car... I suppose...

In other news - anyone getting in on this?

 

Patiently waiting for mine (or perhaps impatiently ) Did you get anything to tell you it had shipped? Or did it just appear with a delivery man?

 

Just appeared this morning In London.

 

I looked at those, but they look cheap to me. Maybe I'm just picky

 

they are cheap, oem profile too.

 

I quite like the look of them, although the whole multi-tiered groupbuy thing is completely lost on me. Anyone fancy breaking it down into idiot speak for me?

 

Cyan only came in 6.25x and green only in 7x... I believe. Which one do you need?

 

I've taken the chance and ordered a set of Olivetti, I'm expecting them to be cheap, nasty texture and so on. But for $14, hey ho

 

Pretty awesome price though. All that really looks cheap to me is the modifier font and that damn windows logo!

 

I've got a set of Ivan's purple mods which I've never used

 

Well even though it goes with nothing, I really wanted the green, what with it being my favourite colour. I didn't realise it only came in 7 But I would love cyan to go with my hyper fuse, are you selling?


The Tai Hao sets definitely do look cheap, but that is because they are! They don't look so bad here though, these pictures look quite normal and perhaps representative of the actual product. The pics in the gb thread are very harsh and wouldn't do anything any justice!

The 'windows' keys are flipping hilarious, the addon packs come with 2 blanks anyway.

 

Well keep an eye out for a new GMK buy starting very soon. Don't miss out again! It will be for US/GB Dolch full set plus a few add on options.

 

Was looking to make the transition mainly due to the keyboard I have taking up a lot of desk-estate and upon reflection I really don't use the numpad at all.

The Pure Pro on Pexon looks nice but only option currently is blue switches; I think I prefer linear to tactile (Browns/Reds right?) since I've used rubber dome for years.

The KBT boards have the compactness and backlighting options I fancy so may take the plunge.

Also tempted by the Coolermaster Quickfire Rapid-I whenever those are gonna turn up in the UK (are CMs keyboards well received at all?).

 

New novelty dyesub key buy is up. Check it out.