My dog is named 12345.
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Yes cat named Admin 1234
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To honor all of my previous canine companions, my current dog is named Password4
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We should start a thread “What have you pushed on your workbench today?” 
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Age check: 48
Taurus, so pretty recently 48.
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12345, Admin 1234 and Password4 are some solid choices. I guess it was too obvious to name my dog hunter2.
//edit: Having read that many gen Y, gen X and boomer (sorry) age numbers, I forgot that this reference is probably unknown to younger readers, so here you go.
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LOL the “oh, ok.” at the end of the conversation.
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So you buy all the things I have my eye on, and we’re the same age…that’s kind of odd haha
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Ayy also Taurus.
I tripped on the stairs and am pretty sure I broke my big toe. Swollen and sore/tender for a couple weeks now but too lazy to go to a doctor… Body isn’t what it used to be…
I’ve never seen this that’s hilarious
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That is kinda crazy lol!
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Started my first handwire today, Adalyn with Daydreamers. I hope this stays kind of tidy when I’m finished
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Great start! Shouldn’t be too hard to keep the matrix in good order. They have a certain elegance that’s hard to mess up, especially on smaller boards. You’ll do great.
For me, the aesthetic issue is always the wiring to the MCU. I just can’t make myself care about the way it looks enough to sacrifice ease of assembly and disassembly.
What do you have planned for your electronics and firmware?
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Thanks, the MCU Part is exactly what makes me nervous a bit. Finished the matrix so far:
MCU is going to be a trusty good old RP2040-Zero, for firmware I’m not completely certain yet. First test definitely QMK/VIAL, but I think I want to go ZMK for the better HRM. My current keymap setup on the BLEndgame really works so good, I want to move that over.
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It’s alive 
I wish I soldered to the MCU first and then the matrix, that would have been easier. But, its not as messy as I feared for, let’s call that clean enough. Compiling the firmware was a bit more hassle than expected, as I also had to setup my QMK environment for the first time after switching to Apple Silicon. After using the current VIAL branch and not my own outdated one, that also worked fine.
ZMK port is still on my todo, but probably not today. Now I just have to glue the MCU in the right place for the case cutout, after that im calling it a day.
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Polishing up the weights in my F1-8x. Left is treated, right is untreated.
The stock weights have some sort of reddish hue, once polished it looks more like true copper. Not really sure what happened there, maybe just some sort of oxidization? Or coating?
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Probably an oil type coating on it? The polished looks great.
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Gonna give these Keygeek Y2s a try in the F1 today. Thinking I should really like them, I got the 37g 22m spring variant which really do feel & sound great in hand. Will report back a little later after I get some use on them.
Edit: Got them installed & oh boy are these special switches! They are most definitely the deepest sounding long pole switch I have ever tried! Also a little more on the muted side especially for a long pole switch, guessing that’s cause of the stem being having the waffle pattern on it. Makes sense that less material making contact with the bottom housing would make for less noise overall. For the feel, they are super smooth switches no scratch to be found at all. The springs are very nice, definitely feel very consistent from switch to switch & are dead quiet. Then the factory lube on the ones Unikeys got right now is very good & consistent. I didn’t have to cherry pick my batch at all. Gonna have to grab a bunch of these before they sell out I think!
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Fun little Saturday solder project:
Bruger-Work BBOX60 in Little Dragon lavender
- CannonKeys AN-C v2 PCB
- Gateron Melodic leaf-clickies, installed plateless
- 80g FlashQuark 2-stage spring under space bar
- Designer Studio Adaptive stabilizers
- Cerakeys V2 Indigo keycaps
- Cute little blueberry dessert sticker on the back
It sounds like this:
By no means quiet, but I honestly expected a lot more obnoxious crunchy noises out of this than it makes.
Notes
The Melodics were a bit too heavy for me with regular keycaps, so I thought I might have better luck using them with these likewise heavy ceramic caps - and that’s mostly true! Their spring was actually too light for the ceramic space bar, so I had to swap-in a heavier spring, which did the trick.
The BBOX60 cases are a pretty fun way to make use of a standard 60% PCB, although: I did also have to cut some of the extra standoffs out of the case to make this particular PCB fit with some of the components it has soldered to the bottom. Didn’t plan on doing that, but it worked out fine.
I’d say these switches are generally pretty usable for me now, though my typing speed takes a big hit for a couple reasons: the slower rebound because of the heavy caps, and the more challenging way-finding with these caps. They’re “cylindrical” but barely have any scoop, and with rounded edges - and of course, no homing keys - so it’s a little harder for me to feel my way around these.
The PCB works with VIA and otherwise performs as expected. I don’t see myself using it a whole lot - still, as a novelty build it’s pretty fun, and looks cute on its little stand.
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