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.
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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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I’ve seen the NCR80 a bunch and this is the first time I made the connection that it has both num and scroll lock LEDs, but neither of those keys anywhere on the board.
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That is destined to be an all-time kit and keyset pairing. Obviously slightly different inspirations, but perfectly in sync.
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Good point. I’m not a NCR history buff, but I believe the NCR80 is an homage to the orginal NCR fullsize form factor boards, where the indicator lights would have been above the numpad. I guess the idea was to keep the same look and feel but chop it down to TKL size. It’s the same situation for the class80 by MM studio, where you can use keys there or an indicator light panel for keys that aren’t on the board 
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The NCR80 simply trades out the “Legacy” key cluster to retain the LED bank. but the original SSK did something interesting that hearkens back to the Model F boards. On the F, Numlock was necessary to toggle between navigation and numpad use, though I believe you could use Shift in either state to momentarily use the other. The SSK (and other compact boards of the pre-Win95 era) left Numlock on the board (at least as Shift+Scroll Lock) and when active, it would commandeer a bunch of keys to make a numpad for you. I can’t imagine many used it willingly, but it was there, so an indicator would still have been helpful. The funny part is that the SSK also did away with the indicator LEDs, most likely leading to hijinks and frustration. LOL.
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Wow, soo nice !!!
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This is a 1.5 “italic” nib for this pen i got forever ago next to an ink i bought for it.
Heres some writing:
The passage the writing came from in case my writing is illegible or youre curious:
pen’s a lamy safari and the ink is lord of the rings: shadow of mordor, from ferris wheel press, both of which i didnt get in the mail
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Note: i got the specific nib i mentioned in the mail
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Lamy’s are from my dad’s hometown before he immigrated to the US. I always have a couple.
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Potato pic bc lazy
One small purchase from drop was SA Godspeed Ares mods. Swapped out the MT3 set on my Saturn60 because I prefer the orange of the SA and the feel of ABS. Also the space bar is a 7u from carbon that I picked up for $5.
Happy to report that the small camphor block I placed in the storage box has drastically slowed down the rusting on this raw steel board. There are a few spots but it looks really cool.
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