Author Topic: [IC] Alps Party Massif: TK + TKL (Read 93850 times)

waqar · « **Reply #250 on:** Tue, 13 September 2016, 00:14:37 »

In for AEK layout.

fublamchu · « **Reply #251 on:** Tue, 13 September 2016, 07:50:05 »

Can't wait for this to come into fruition!

the pokemon kid · « **Reply #252 on:** Tue, 13 September 2016, 09:59:43 »

In the number pad portion of the log, you mention support for Monterey Alps. Will the TKL board also have this support?

henz · « **Reply #253 on:** Tue, 13 September 2016, 12:07:37 »

Quote from: the pokemon kid on Tue, 13 September 2016, 09:59:43

In the number pad portion of the log, you mention support for Monterey Alps. Will the TKL board also have this support?

Asked the same thing a while back. And the answer is yes

the pokemon kid · « **Reply #254 on:** Tue, 13 September 2016, 14:31:32 »

Quote from: henz on Tue, 13 September 2016, 12:07:37

Quote from: the pokemon kid on Tue, 13 September 2016, 09:59:43
In the number pad portion of the log, you mention support for Monterey Alps. Will the TKL board also have this support?
Asked the same thing a while back. And the answer is yes

How did I miss that! I read everything a few times to make sure! But brilliant! Got me some Monterey blues to clean up for this then!

henz · « **Reply #255 on:** Tue, 13 September 2016, 14:40:02 »

Quote from: BlueNalgene on Sat, 30 July 2016, 17:10:30

SMK compatibility is true. Of course, I still need to find time to work on this. The encouraging words are nice though. It helps maintain what momentum I have.

BlueNalgene · « **Reply #256 on:** Tue, 13 September 2016, 16:42:36 »

I like seeing activity here. I'm glad I haven't lost you yet. I'm still alive, just swamped. The last two weeks I worked 78 and 63 hours, respectively. (I only worked 5 hours on labor day, gotta take a break occasionally). Anyway, the fact that this project seems to be on hiatus does NOT mean it is dead. It is on the list.

Slippery_John · « **Reply #257 on:** Tue, 13 September 2016, 18:29:41 »

Quote from: BlueNalgene on Tue, 13 September 2016, 16:42:36

I like seeing activity here. I'm glad I haven't lost you yet. I'm still alive, just swamped. The last two weeks I worked 78 and 63 hours, respectively. (I only worked 5 hours on labor day, gotta take a break occasionally). Anyway, the fact that this project seems to be on hiatus does NOT mean it is dead. It is on the list.

Yay! I await this project with bated breath

the pokemon kid · « **Reply #258 on:** Wed, 14 September 2016, 14:08:34 »

Quote from: BlueNalgene on Tue, 13 September 2016, 16:42:36

I like seeing activity here. I'm glad I haven't lost you yet. I'm still alive, just swamped. The last two weeks I worked 78 and 63 hours, respectively. (I only worked 5 hours on labor day, gotta take a break occasionally). Anyway, the fact that this project seems to be on hiatus does NOT mean it is dead. It is on the list.

Glad you are still there!

What switches is everyone else putting on the board? Mainly blues? Or are some people putting lubed salmon's in?

fublamchu · « **Reply #259 on:** Wed, 14 September 2016, 14:12:27 »

Quote from: the pokemon kid on Wed, 14 September 2016, 14:08:34

Quote from: BlueNalgene on Tue, 13 September 2016, 16:42:36
I like seeing activity here. I'm glad I haven't lost you yet. I'm still alive, just swamped. The last two weeks I worked 78 and 63 hours, respectively. (I only worked 5 hours on labor day, gotta take a break occasionally). Anyway, the fact that this project seems to be on hiatus does NOT mean it is dead. It is on the list.

Glad you are still there!

What switches is everyone else putting on the board? Mainly blues? Or are some people putting lubed salmon's in?

This is probably far too early to say, but I'm looking for Orange ALPS or if I'm really lucky, Amber ALPS

the pokemon kid · « **Reply #260 on:** Wed, 14 September 2016, 14:33:32 »

Quote from: fublamchu on Wed, 14 September 2016, 14:12:27

Quote from: the pokemon kid on Wed, 14 September 2016, 14:08:34
Quote from: BlueNalgene on Tue, 13 September 2016, 16:42:36
I like seeing activity here. I'm glad I haven't lost you yet. I'm still alive, just swamped. The last two weeks I worked 78 and 63 hours, respectively. (I only worked 5 hours on labor day, gotta take a break occasionally). Anyway, the fact that this project seems to be on hiatus does NOT mean it is dead. It is on the list.

Glad you are still there!

What switches is everyone else putting on the board? Mainly blues? Or are some people putting lubed salmon's in?

This is probably far too early to say, but I'm looking for Orange ALPS or if I'm really lucky, Amber ALPS

It's not too early! It's going to take me a long time to find the perfect donor keyboards!

waqar · « **Reply #261 on:** Wed, 14 September 2016, 17:19:24 »

Quote from: the pokemon kid on Wed, 14 September 2016, 14:08:34

Quote from: BlueNalgene on Tue, 13 September 2016, 16:42:36
I like seeing activity here. I'm glad I haven't lost you yet. I'm still alive, just swamped. The last two weeks I worked 78 and 63 hours, respectively. (I only worked 5 hours on labor day, gotta take a break occasionally). Anyway, the fact that this project seems to be on hiatus does NOT mean it is dead. It is on the list.

Glad you are still there!

What switches is everyone else putting on the board? Mainly blues? Or are some people putting lubed salmon's in?

I have an Apple Extended Keyboard with Orange, and Apple Standard Keyboard with Salmon. Probably Orange, have not decided yet.

tofgerl · « **Reply #262 on:** Thu, 15 September 2016, 09:16:37 »

I only have dampened cream lying around, but if I knew that I had a 75% coming, I'd have to dive into the deeper alps world and find out what I REALLY like

One sad thing from the alps party buy, it turns out I really don't like Matias. The work i had to go through to get my AEK2 caps off those clicky bastard-switches is something I never want to do again!

deductivemonkee · « **Reply #263 on:** Thu, 15 September 2016, 10:01:36 »

Quote from: tofgerl on Thu, 15 September 2016, 09:16:37

I only have dampened cream lying around, but if I knew that I had a 75% coming, I'd have to dive into the deeper alps world and find out what I REALLY like
One sad thing from the alps party buy, it turns out I really don't like Matias. The work i had to go through to get my AEK2 caps off those clicky bastard-switches is something I never want to do again!

I was removing caps off of my clicky switches on my alps64 and ripped the switch and pad off. Had the ghetto wire it to the iso key next to left shift

Norman_the_Owl · « **Reply #264 on:** Sun, 09 October 2016, 09:31:35 »

Busy month at work, eh?

mushman · « **Reply #265 on:** Wed, 12 October 2016, 10:40:02 »

Will your keyboard be compatible with this keyset? https://thevankeyboards.com/products/lightcycle-keycap-set

Radlife · « **Reply #266 on:** Wed, 12 October 2016, 11:17:11 »

Quote from: mushman on Wed, 12 October 2016, 10:40:02

Will your keyboard be compatible with this keyset? https://thevankeyboards.com/products/lightcycle-keycap-set

Yes, it would be compatible with just the base set of the lightcycle keyset (if you're an US ANSI user)

mushman · « **Reply #267 on:** Wed, 12 October 2016, 12:31:21 »

Well that's good news! The LightCycle GB ends October 17th. Estimated production concludes 8 to 10 weeks; so hopefully Blue Nalgene will take orders starting 2017? That would be perfect.

arhetue · « **Reply #268 on:** Thu, 13 October 2016, 17:55:57 »

Welp, looks like I finally found a board to try out matias clicks on...

BlueNalgene · « **Reply #269 on:** Sat, 15 October 2016, 15:08:32 »

Non-update

I decided to take a completely work free day. This will be the first one I've taken in about a month. My usual load has been 60 hours during the work week, and 10-20 hours on the weekend. I just want everyone to be aware that I still exist, and that I haven't abandoned this project. It just is on the backburner until **** calms down.

Norman_the_Owl · « **Reply #270 on:** Mon, 17 October 2016, 17:02:09 »

Take your time man, you don't owe us anything.

Applet · « **Reply #271 on:** Sun, 23 October 2016, 12:47:26 »

Definitely interested! So just to be sure: If I pick up a QFR, I can use that case for the TKL? I need to start collecting parts ^^

Trente · « **Reply #272 on:** Sun, 23 October 2016, 15:24:48 »

Definitely in!!! The PCB supporting layout is awesome, so does the current case design!

Scarpia · « **Reply #273 on:** Mon, 24 October 2016, 02:59:13 »

Definitely interested in a Rosa TKL (probably AEKII Ansi or Dell ANSI)

ninjapoop42 · « **Reply #274 on:** Sat, 19 November 2016, 19:48:10 »

Very interested. AEKII ANSI for sure, maybe more.

sethbc · « **Reply #275 on:** Wed, 23 November 2016, 15:13:23 »

interested as well, something alps 64 compat

neon_tom · « **Reply #276 on:** Thu, 01 December 2016, 09:32:41 »

I'm very interested in Dell ANSI

ozan6661 · « **Reply #277 on:** Thu, 01 December 2016, 09:54:49 »

really interest with hhkb esque layout and matias or alps switch

dante · « **Reply #278 on:** Wed, 21 December 2016, 13:19:26 »

It looks like Lightcycle Alps live again:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/5jkm8e/3012017/

rabbitfire · « **Reply #279 on:** Sun, 25 December 2016, 10:24:02 »

I'm interested in buying the Rosa TKL

Radlife · « **Reply #280 on:** Mon, 09 January 2017, 10:36:57 »

Hi, I was wondering if there were any updates on this

PriusProblems · « **Reply #281 on:** Fri, 13 January 2017, 07:31:08 »

Is AEKII ISO a thing that may happen?

duynguyenle · « **Reply #282 on:** Fri, 13 January 2017, 07:33:59 »

Quote from: PriusProblems on Fri, 13 January 2017, 07:31:08

Is AEKII ISO a thing that may happen?

I doubt it. To support aek iso, every single switch locations will need duplicated pads at 0.25u offset to the right. This is likely not worth it in terms of cost and complexity of the pcb. Blame Apple and their retarded treatment of keyboard layouts.

alh84001 · « **Reply #283 on:** Fri, 13 January 2017, 07:41:11 »

Thinking completely out of my ass, but maybe you could do just the left column offset to the left, and perforate the PCB on each side to easily break off the one you don't need

I don't have an ISO AEK so it doesn't make a difference to me.

duynguyenle · « **Reply #284 on:** Fri, 13 January 2017, 07:44:49 »

Quote from: alh84001 on Fri, 13 January 2017, 07:41:11

Thinking completely out of my ass, but maybe you could do just the left column offset to the left, and perforate the PCB on each side to easily break off the one you don't need

I don't have an ISO AEK so it doesn't make a difference to me.

I don't understand what you mean, for an ISO AEK, each and every switch on the main alphas cluster is shifted to the right by 0.25u, meaning the traces will have to be quite complicated (an AEK switch and a normal switch position will overlap over 0.75u and the pin locations are likely affected too). Not worth the headache in my opinion

alh84001 · « **Reply #285 on:** Fri, 13 January 2017, 07:54:31 »

Well, instead of moving all the other switches to right, you could move the first column to the left, couldn't you? Nav keys would then also need to be moved to the left. A lot of switches for sure, but less than the whole alpha section and not staggered (I don't know if that makes a difference). You would then probably need some extra PCB on the left, and if you are fitting it into a tight case you would probably need to remove extra PCB on the right.

But to all ISO guys I would recommend getting left column keys from m0118. I thing those would work. Then it's just a matter of having the right switch position for the enter key.

duynguyenle · « **Reply #286 on:** Sun, 15 January 2017, 04:20:26 »

Quote from: alh84001 on Fri, 13 January 2017, 07:54:31

Well, instead of moving all the other switches to right, you could move the first column to the left, couldn't you? Nav keys would then also need to be moved to the left. A lot of switches for sure, but less than the whole alpha section and not staggered (I don't know if that makes a difference). You would then probably need some extra PCB on the left, and if you are fitting it into a tight case you would probably need to remove extra PCB on the right.

But to all ISO guys I would recommend getting left column keys from m0118. I thing those would work. Then it's just a matter of having the right switch position for the enter key.

I think that would work yes, but obviously the entire right hand row of the alphas column would have a bit of an awkward gap of 0.125u on both sides (I think) since the keys themselves are 0.25u short

dante · « **Reply #287 on:** Wed, 18 January 2017, 15:16:40 »

BlueNalgene is this still in development?

BlueNalgene · « **Reply #288 on:** Thu, 23 March 2017, 17:17:14 »

Very busy. Hiatus

waldorf120 · « **Reply #289 on:** Fri, 05 May 2017, 15:58:30 »

Very interested in an Alps TKL and numpad PCB.

joelfong · « **Reply #290 on:** Sat, 13 May 2017, 10:43:29 »

Interested in this! It'll be nice to have a complete Alps TKL set.

MandrewDavis · « **Reply #291 on:** Sat, 13 May 2017, 20:43:10 »

Don't know if this helps anyone but Leeku might have extra Alps TKL pcbs leftover.

alienman82 · « **Reply #292 on:** Wed, 17 May 2017, 13:23:56 »

removed.

Applet · « **Reply #293 on:** Wed, 17 May 2017, 15:07:20 »

With a little luck, the timing might be good for when Matias releases new keycaps? (hopefully at least the blanks)

MandrewDavis · « **Reply #294 on:** Wed, 17 May 2017, 18:41:10 »

Quote from: alienman82 on Wed, 17 May 2017, 13:23:56

tried SMK , didn't like them.. not as upset that this hasn't been updated in a while anymore

The quality of click is good with SMKs but I don't like the weighting and the boards are present in aren't exactly inspiring. I would rather use Alps or aristotle stems.

directheatedtriode · « **Reply #295 on:** Mon, 26 June 2017, 12:41:44 »

Interested in Dell ANSI TKL backplate plus PCB. Might be interested in case as well.

alienman82 · « **Reply #296 on:** Mon, 26 June 2017, 16:36:30 »

removed.

sncbraxsc2 · « **Reply #297 on:** Tue, 24 October 2017, 14:05:54 »

I know this is well on the backburner but I will be looking forward to when the party starts bumping again. Also wanted to express interest in high profile designs for the case

Earthchill · « **Reply #298 on:** Sat, 23 December 2017, 15:15:17 »

If you decide to continue some day, I'm also interested

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Author Topic: [IC] Alps Party Massif: TK + TKL (Read 93850 times)