This is great, I personally never had issues with stabilizers as long as the keycaps are tight enough on the stabilizer stems, but for north facing PCBs this is a great solution.
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Good for Novatouched topre boards + cherry profile keycaps too !
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Uh, the thread is locked. That’s odd. I was going to ask the IC owner what the expected benefits of POK were for the top housing. Guess not.
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That’s exactly what I ordered them for. I’ve run into certain caps making weird bottom out sounds and I’m hopeful that this can solve that.
Huh.
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Those o-rings have been available for ages
I have some from a long time ago, but I’m not sure where I got them. I feel like I remember them showing up on somewhere like Novelkeys for a while a few years back. I haven’t seem them in stock anywhere in a while. I used mine back in the day on my Vortex Pok3r keyboards. It was a great solution for the upwards facing LED switches. It wasn’t a perfect solution for me personally because I tend to swap my keycaps a lot. The rings often come off when you try to swap out keycaps.
I haven’t ever tried them on stabilizers with long stem switches. I have tried them on my Novatouch boards, but they didn’t work for me. I still have collision on cherry or DCS profile keycaps on 2u spots.
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They aren’t dampening o-rings; they’re quite a bit smaller and perform a different function. They’re also much flatter than any rubber or silicone o-ring; these are effectively shims.
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Them “North-facing” shims/rings are handy to have around.
Get a bag then forget about it til you run into needy occasions.
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Another new keyset for lovers of green; and another Cherry profile PBT set from NovelKeys. Edit edit: oh hey it’s on flash-sale, too. :3
Edit - It’s a collab with dotnick - their monogram reminds me a lot of the logo for Neoplanet, a long-defunct web browser:
Multiple NK updates today - they’re running a GameCube inspired GMK set:
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Nice. Was looking to buy this when it first came out but I figured it would eventually go on sale! And now I can try out some GMK stabilizers too!
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KBDfans gets fun with 40s
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The “Plastic” Mojo68 has a new sibling:
This version adopts a soft pink theme, slightly simplifies the dyesub graphics, adds a thin layer of poron between the PCB & switches, and includes an exclusively-configured set of lightweight linear Kailh BOX switches named (and styled) after the original light-teal-and-orange “Plastic” colorway.
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Stumbled across the “Ghostbar” from Nuphy - a spacebar that apparently sounds better (whatever that means…). Nevertheless and I trifling concept.
And in the Australian discords there has been a lot of chatter about the Emogogo Hybrid Blacks designed by one of the guys from Switchkeys (Caz) - a short pole linear switch that takes inspiration from Cherry Blacks and H1s. It appears to be extremely smooth with an interesting sound profile and a lovey feel.
https://www.switchkeys.com.au/collections/linear/products/hybrid-black-linear-switches-x10
Review:
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Does anyone got any info on this ?
Keebox M0110 Retro Apple Keyboard Kit HHKB Layout QMK VIA Supports Bluetooth Customized Mechanical Keyboard Kit
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mKGuULk
It seems like a nice cheaper alternative to the Vortex M0110
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I can’t say I’ve ever heard of Keebox before - but this caught my eye:
All PCBs support 3.3V solenoid valve
A QMK/VIA compatible HHKB layout classic Apple lookalike with gasket mounting, PCB options, an FR4 plate, and solenoid support? For less than sixty bucks? Seems like potential geek gold to me.
I don’t see anything obviously janky in the photos… I’m tempted to pick one of these up myself just to find out if it’s all that and a bag of chips.
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I know I’ve seen this board before, but I can’t track it down. I believe it was a Chinese run b/c they used the Apple logo without worry. But it seems like I had to option to buy one before, and it wasn’t Keebox. At least I don’t think.
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Found some extra pics of internals here, even though they’re pretty filthy, lol.
It’s a really cool kit. They somehow got injection molded cases made. At first I thought they were maybe using the same parts as the upcoming Vortex board, but it’s not the same as b/c of the PCB gasket mount points. This has to be something people from the Chinese community would recognize. They have to have made a lot of them.
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Found some pics also, after searching for Rye Works as I’ve seen on the box in one of the aliexpress pictures
Update: the aliexpress seller sent me a video also: Mac经典老键盘覆刻——M0110_哔哩哔哩_bilibili
You can click on the video and then watch it in the browser:
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mykeyboard.eu has surprise switches, 90 for €17
The most likely are Alpaca (V1) 23%, Amber 13%, Shogoki 14% and 8008 9%, nice of them to post the “odds”
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