Hello friends!
I'm Peachie-- irl name Niko-- a 25 year old keycap fanatic from California, USA, and I was introduced (and subsequently addicted) to the hobby of mechanical keyboards by my boyfriend Dat this year, when he decided to pursue his own dream of building an ortholinear keyboard. My laptop was missing several keys and becoming less and less useable, so instead of researching the warranty and getting it repaired like a smart person, I decided to get a keyboard I could customize myself to plug in and use as a replacement (pictured below). Then I discovered the world of custom keycaps, and was completely hooked.
GK64x w/ walnut case, my first mechanical keyboard of many to come
Now, some months later, BF's 75 key ortho has still yet to be completed (a hold up with the company cutting the custom case he rendered), I've gained... well, all the keyboards in my signature; but best of all, we've decided to combine his clay modeling + 3D rendering skills and my drawing/art skills, and bought a Creality Ender 3 3D Printer-- now we're in the works of starting to make our own keycaps!
So far, people in this community seem pretty nice overall, and I'm enjoying my time here on Geekhack and on /r/mechanicalkeyboards~
Fun Facts: ⋆
My favorite keyboard size is
65%⋆
My favorite keycap set is
GMK Vaporwave (has been since basically the start of my keycap hobby; after months of hunting, someone found ME yesterday and sold me the base set at a great price! Yay! Now I need the Hiragana kit and I can stop collecting keycaps right? yeaaah.....)
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My preferred switch style is
tactile. I kinda made the mistake of going high end early, and now I'm hooked on 62g Zilents and 65g Zealios
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I don't have a favorite/dream keyboard yet. I'm not familiar enough with what's out there to decide on a high end/end game model!
as for my questions: ⋆ I keep seeing people with little keyboard pixel icons in their signatures-- where do those come from? (I'm hoping a generator and not an artist I need to pay to commission lmao). I want to show off tiny, cute renderings of my keebs in my signature too! ;v;edit: ANSWERED! Thank you
dgneo ☆
⋆ any core advice you have for someone new to mech keyboards? stuff like "learn to solder" (I've only ever torch-soldered before-- for metalsmithing-- but my dad has been building computer components since the first PCs came out, so he's going to teach me w his Hakko kit) or other advice, the kind of things you wish someone had told you when you were just getting into this hobby? That'd be really rad, thanks!
