Yea saw the announcement from CK as well, I am very curious how Cipulot’s implementation of Rapid Trigger is since EC boards don’t have “analog” states (at least to my understanding) unlike Hall Effect boards. Maybe they did some voodoo magic but guess we shall see.
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I’m still largely uninitiated in the church of rubber dome thocc.
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For a few iterations the RF Gaming keyboards have advertised custom “activation points” which reflects the controller’s ability to sense how much of the spring is compressed, I would think that CIP’s implementation lean’s on that ability:
I could have sworn that the original RF RGB advertised analog support but, looking at the archived page I can’t find it. I remember it showing a key press mirroring a car accelerator.
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Yea I got my first ever Topre board a couple months ago from someone who was selling theirs here, I had a feeling I would love the board and I still do in fact love it 
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Oh wow that is interesting and cool, didn’t know RF was making boards marketed towards that. Yea I am very curious on how it can detect how much of the spring has been depressed, or whatever they are tracking.
@Cipulot is on here so he might chime in to correct me when he’s less busy but I’ve always thought that the pads on an EC PCB use a digital potentiometer and the more of the spring is touching the pad the higher the current.
edit: Deskthority has a write-up: Keystroke sensing - Deskthority wiki
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The more you know, also now that I think about it more that makes sense given the word “capacitive”. That aspect totally blew over my head.
Vala has 42% off for 4/20 on lots of goodies
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Zodiarks are back in stock: Zodiark Split Ergo Keyboard — Split Logic Keyboards
Same designer just sold through a batch of ZodiarkPi pre-orders but will have more later this week: ZodiarkPi Split Ergo Keyboard — Split Logic Keyboards
Keyreative has started doing full multi-color all side dye-sub custom keycap sets (On-demand)!
So much better than WASD for on-demand keycap set manufacturing - these are Cherry PBT dye sub and offer amazing kitting.
Here is an example.
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Now this is awesome to see, fairly fleshed out customizer and knowledge of layouts/keebs and layout options.
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Wow, multicolor legends and color? That’s pretty cool.
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How’s Keyreative doing on delivery times these days? I’ve seen mention of a really long queue a couple of years back.
For example, someone on the Geekhack KAM Astha IC mentions not having bought them in a couple of years because they were waiting 3 years for a set and have been burned on quality.
If they’re running well, though, this is really attractive. I gather many in the 40s community buy their KAM sets.
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Hope this pans out. Need more colors and ability to preview though.
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That’s really neat and a good step in the right direction. I hope it only gets much better from here. There are some things that could be improved:
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How to effectively create a 64-key layout? Or just add specific keys to customize a given layout? It seems the only workaround is to find some other superset layout that includes everything you need, but then that seems a bit wasteful for something that should be highly customizable.
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More colors would be great. For example, there are no dark greens at all.
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More powerful editing tools, such as a way to batch edit the formatting of multiple keys simultaneously. Legends can be moved around, but sometimes getting the alignment right just seems to come down to eyeballing things.
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So, I don’t know whether to put this here or in the Things that make us go hmm… thread, but you know the Tecsee Honey Peach linear switches with the stem with the metal pole? There is a tactile brother, the Tecsee Crystal Lemon.
And yup, they’re pretty much what I expected.
(Also, in case anyone else was curious, the metal does not appear to be ferrous, or at least my magnets don’t seem to stick to it. So no hilarious hall effect mods by magnetizing the pole.)
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Also spotted on AE, tactile and clicky magnetic switches from Outemu
They appear to use some kind of metal leaf to make the bump/click – in fact, it looks like the same mechanism for the brown vs. blue, just the blue is set closer together, so it snaps back more (and thus ls audible). They appear to be the same mechanism in Outemu Snap switches.
Definitely curious about tactile hall effect switches.
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While I would love fully custom Pantone color code options, I feel like that would quickly become unmanageable for Keyreative. I’m just imagining trying to have QC on literally any possible color combination in existence for one set runs all day…
The “Pick colors” step does allow you to preview both a photo of the Pantone color on a keycap and what the whole board will look like in the layout preview, with the ability to set colors for both label and keycap for each individual keycap, if you so desire:
I’m honestly surprised by the huge amount of customization available here. You can even choose individual colors for the labels, sub-labels, and even sub-legends.
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Yea it is surprisingly in-depth.
I believe the backlog is cleared; from what I heard, there were huge disruptions to their manufacturing due to COVID lockdowns. I was waiting for KAM Superuser for (I think?) 2.5 years.
They’re claiming delivery in 10-20 days:
This is the universal struggle of the 64-key layout. My first board was a GK64 and I was not expecting how difficult it was to find base sets that worked with the layout. It’s gotten better in the past couple years, but still not perfect.
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