What did you get in the mail today? (Part 2)

It’s not a mistranslation, funny enough. It’s a guy who has allegedly made some molds and bought some machines and makes his own Switches under the manufacturer name Moldy Cabbage and/or Cabbage Studio now.

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I was hoping for the goofball timeline :leafy_green:

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MTNU Rascals base kit

A photo on my warm-brown wooden desk with some dark-red Gateron Type-Rs in the background for comparison; I really love this color. Lighting is warm in my house; these are a nice rubbery burgundy, between red and brown.

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Finally got KKB Soju Blue. I loved the renders like a year ago so had to jump on it when I saw they were in stock. I’ve always wanted GMK Masterpiece–this is close. No idea what I’ll put it on yet.
Non GMK packaging is so nice…




My lighting’s pretty bad at night, this set is so vibrant.

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Got my KCH Nekoccino caps today. Fun set!

They are thin, but not quite thin enough to feel cheap. I’m happy with them. No warping and fun novelties. Have to see how well the printing holds up. But I rarely use one keycap set long enough to cause wear :joy:

One positive about the thinner walls of these caps is that you can use them on Tecsee medium switches without any interference.

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I really like the look of these. Thin-walled ABS is probably good for light-tactiles like MX Browns.

Let us know how the UV printing holds up!

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Yes, I believe they would pair excellently with light tactiles. I have them on Tecsee Medium silent tactile switches (low profile) and they both feel and sound fantastic.

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The fact they are on the thinner side kinda intrigues me TBH. I know it’s not a popular opinion at all but I like thin ABS caps (well all thin caps actually, but 99% of thin caps are made from ABS unfortunately). Paired with the right board & switches they can hit in a way thick caps can’t IME. Although it is much harder to find those pairings so I get why thick caps became the gold standard. How you feeling about the way these sound?

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Hard to say on this board because they are on silent switches. Granted, Tecsee medium are not all that silent. All I can say for sure is that they sound better than the DSA caps that were on there previously.

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Second take on a custom PCB in Klor footprint. This one is diodeless and will have the socketed Nice!Nanos mounted on the top. Modified the case layers and plate to accommodate this setup. Should have the case pieces in on Monday.

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Does diodeless mean you aren’t able to press many keys down at the same time or do you have some of the keys directly going to nice nano pins.

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Each pin handles a single switch in this scenario

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Gotcha, makes sense. I wasnt sure if you wired it up to be direct pin for each switch.

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Ooooh neat! I’ve always wanted to try this with some chip with a ridiculous amount of I/O. Like the chip on the Teensy 4.1 apparently has 55 GPIOs!

A little surprise it’s not caught on as a trend, given the “gamer” focus of a lot of the keyboard world these days. Well, beyond the difficulty and insanity of doing it. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I’ve seen people mention direct pin wiring in a gaming scenario. I wish I had a cool reason as to why I chose this other than:

  1. All the PCBs I’ve designed so far have used a matrix, and I wanted a new challenge.
  2. I wanted to make the PCB as barebones as possible with so few keys to account for.
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Pshaw, I have done wackier things for far sillier reasons! (See my WTF60 build with the Mirror keyset.)

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Yea i’ve seen a handful of boards, namely handwired builds, that wire up their board to be direct pinouts from the switch to MCU.

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“Smells like beige.” Is an amazing slogan.

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I’m with you - I really like thin ABS caps and with any tactiles (from what I have for tactiles, anyway!). It seems to be my comfort combo lately

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The spilled coffee+paw key is too cute. What plate are you using in that build? Looks great!

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