What did you get in the mail today? (Part 1)

Paw macropad. It was really dirty when it arrived due to the fancy yet dirty packaging.

I cleaned and assembled it with black U4ts but having issues, along with many others, getting it to work wirelessly. I guess I have to compile a QMK grey area firmware instead of ZMK. It works connected to USB-C but I really got it for the wireless capability. I hope the firmware issues can be cleared up without too much effort.

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Wow I never expected to see a Paw on Keebtalk! unfortunately wireless ZMK sucks on windows, and the QMK stack isn’t much better, definitely worth recompiling, but the stability leaves something to be desired.

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a new XD84 v2 pro PCB which came with a dead row. sadly i only noticed it after soldering sooo… have to order a new one

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I haven’t compiled a firmware before. I have the instructions and the special paw repo for it. I am sure I can eventually figure it out eventually. As someone who is a newbie about this any chance you could give me a ballpark idea of the pain I am in for? Lol Iike a night, day, weekend.

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Maybe an hour or so. Mostly to setup the software and get yourself oriented. This is simply my experience using QMK. I’ve not even tried ZMK or VIA yet.

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Honestly I would recommend reaching out to Taylor, he’s been helping out a lot of other Paw owners having similar issues in his discord. Discord

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Sejin SKR-2233 with Sejin Futaba-mount domes. Never thought I’d see one of these.

Very unusual, very mushy, but gorgeous.

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This is really awesome. I love the gasket-less sandwich style case, I imagine it feels very solid and consistent. Also, ortho gud. Thanks for showing us a board I didn’t know existed!

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Ye, I can imagine that too, it turns out that I don’t have the tools to open it so I have to wait until the iFixit arrives on Monday/Tuesday. :upside_down_face:

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NovelKeys has some really nice deskmat packaging now!

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Impromptu weekend project :innocent:

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Nice! Space Cables was the first vendor I got a deskmat from in one of those boxes. I much prefer them to the bags NK used to use & Dixie still uses.

The Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360. It’s got a nice Super AMOLED, a whole lot of compromises, but the keyboard isn’t terrible! lol.

https://denfi.me/galaxy360

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this macropad has a nice little footprint

SA Skyriter just came :slight_smile:

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Got me some Bobagums for when we finally get to go back to the office. The colour is intense, they so look like forbidden candy.

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I got the Classicbot Mini vinyl toy from Classicbot Toy to go with my original Classicbot. The fact that he came with a tiny M0110 keyboard accessory was what sold me!

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I got a new silicon work mat from American Haptics and it’s flipping awesome. I love having room to spread out.

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If you don’t mind me asking how did you get a photo of the mat that looks like the actual color?!?! I have one of those that every time I try to take a picture on it the colors get all wonky. It drives me crazy and away from using the mat.

Ugly Photo

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Not at all, I suspect it’s probably the lighting I use at my bench. It’s all 90+ CRI LEDs which helps render color to be more natural to the human eye. I think it’s also around 5000K in terms of lighting color, which is closer to natural sunlight (full spectrum).

Other than that, I’m just using a standard Pixel 4a phone as the camera.

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