I picked up these cheap cables for my Neo Ergo coming in later this week. These are basically the same thick silicone soft-touch “keyboard” cables but much cheaper on Amazon.
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Custom Yuzu caps for a macro board (Lumikey Nova).
Legends stolen from GMK Pono novelties with some others for spice.
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Little keeb care package today
- More LDSA
- Goji Reserve
- Pine 1m silicone cable
- The unit ruler by Technofrikus
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I got this Dry Studio Battleye 74.5 RT from Angry Miao. More for gamers than keymap wizards, but I can imagine that the real-time key travel feedback on the (touch) screen can help while fine-tuning your gaming setup.
And I love the fancy legs - freely adjustable between 6 and 11 degrees.
Full tear-down: Dry Studio Battleye 74.5 RT
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Reinforcements have arrived. First new MX keyboard in four years. Neo Ergo Retro White, Retro J, and Retro Mixed Lights. I didn’t know it was all “Retro” until I typed that out.
Overall enjoyable build and I could see why people like Neo and the Ergo particular. They have some nice build features such as pogo connectors for PCBs and ball-catch for easy access. My only critique is RGB customization and would have liked sharper angle up front. Five years ago, this would have been a $500 board. As much as I like the board, Retro J is the biggest surprise to me. They are so crisp. I will have to upgrade stock stabilizers to Swagkeys.
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Definitely not a vi user.
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Interesting. Far be it from me to criticize choices made just because they seemed neat, but I find it kinda funny that they stuck with the Minila shift-row, which has, as almost its sole benefit, adding arrows to the 60% footprint, and then added not just an F-Row (odd but fine, really, as most people have plenty of “depth” available on their desk just to keep the display at an appropriate distance), but also the very large outrigger screen that extends out way farther than the 1u that would have been necessary to do the full 75%. I guess like a southpaw, you can still place it for gaming like it’s a 60%, so there’s that.
Still a pretty cool and very distinctive board, but barring some supply-chain simplification I haven’t figured out, I reckon they’re limiting their sales more than they needed to with the layout they chose.
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We’re definitely going to want the full build updates on this one.
Will try to, though I’m crap at remembering to take pictures in the middle of a build.
Also, I’m gonna need a lot of mill-max sockets…
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