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Offline SirClickAlot

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Advice needed on ninth key on STB
« on: Tue, 19 October 2010, 08:05:01 »
Progress so far...

Am pulling my hair on which key will be the ninth key. The first 8 are :
1. Cherry blue
2. Cherry brown
3. Cherry black
4. Cherry red
5. Cherry clear
6. Buckling spring
7. Alps clicky ( white )
8. Alps non clicky ( white )
9....?????

Got these I think about :
1. Cherry ML ( From g84-4100 )
2. Alps non clicky black ( from AT-101 )
3. Monterey blue ( coming up in several weeks )

Which one would be suited best as the ninth key on the Switch Try Board?

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« Reply #1 on: Tue, 19 October 2010, 08:21:09 »
Cherry ML, because keyboards with it are available.
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« Reply #2 on: Tue, 19 October 2010, 08:25:02 »
Second the ML.
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« Reply #3 on: Tue, 19 October 2010, 08:46:16 »
Ml +3
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« Reply #4 on: Tue, 19 October 2010, 08:50:13 »
So In my post above is there any reason why I can't capitalize the letter "L"?


I thought he already tried the Topre. Whoops! Wrong member, yeah I change it
to Topre! =)
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Offline SirClickAlot

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« Reply #5 on: Tue, 19 October 2010, 08:53:15 »
@Ripster : I also thought of that, but it is on its own trip right now ;-)

I might be able to convince Topre to give me 10 of those key chains so I can make 10 STB's with topre keyswitches on them. Anybody knows how to contact them ?

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« Reply #6 on: Tue, 19 October 2010, 09:18:15 »
CRAP! (I need some sleep)

I totally misread this entire thread, You are making the board I was making a while ago, but I thought interest faded.
Good for you buddy! =)


Cherry blue
Cherry brown
Cherry black
Cherry clear
Cherry red
Cherry ML
ALPS clicky (white)
ALPS soft clicky (green/blue)    X
ALPS non clicky (black)
ALPS linear    X
ALPS non clicky (dampend)  X
Topre 30   X
Topre 45
Topre 55
BS M
BS F    X
Space invaders    X
Scissor switch
Average rubber dome
Monterey   X

Some keys With standard, 2-shot, and my keys on it.

The Xs were  the ones I think I decided against because they were less common and very out dated or just really, really uncommon.
But better someone else does it anyway I have my hands full.
I hope it works out well whatever you choose =)

K I need to sleep now its been 26hrs zzzzzzzzzzzz....
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Offline SirClickAlot

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« Reply #7 on: Tue, 19 October 2010, 10:02:12 »
Quote from: clickclack;235914
CRAP! (I need some sleep)

I totally misread this entire thread, You are making the board I was making a while ago, but I thought interest faded.
Good for you buddy! =)


Cherry blue
Cherry brown
Cherry black
Cherry clear
Cherry red
Cherry ML
ALPS clicky (white)
ALPS soft clicky (green/blue)    X
ALPS non clicky (black)
ALPS linear    X
ALPS non clicky (dampend)  X
Topre 30   X
Topre 45
Topre 55
BS M
BS F    X
Space invaders    X
Scissor switch
Average rubber dome
Monterey   X

Some keys With standard, 2-shot, and my keys on it.

The Xs were  the ones I think I decided against because they were less common and very out dated or just really, really uncommon.
But better someone else does it anyway I have my hands full.
I hope it works out well whatever you choose =)

K I need to sleep now its been 26hrs zzzzzzzzzzzz....


Didn't know someone else already tried this....

How did you get the Topres?

Regards.
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Offline SirClickAlot

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« Reply #8 on: Tue, 19 October 2010, 10:35:15 »
Quote from: ripster;235938
I think he has one Topre but never built a Frankenstein board.

I've had a Cherry MX tester board for some time now made from a $10 Black Cherry Chinese numpad.  I used it for spring/stem swapping tests.
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Interesting....
Want to depart from it? *evil grin*

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Offline SirClickAlot

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« Reply #9 on: Thu, 21 October 2010, 05:42:38 »
Today I finally cut the gordian knot....

It wasn't possible for the buckling spring to be removed as a switch from my model m keyboard so I had to go with something else.

Cherries and Alps only for this first iteration of the STB ( switch try board ).

Now for the difficult task of mounting them to a pcb which doesn't have pre-drilled holes for the cherries... :-p

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« Reply #10 on: Thu, 21 October 2010, 05:45:15 »
Maybe Topre i'd think. Or the Ml :X
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« Reply #11 on: Thu, 21 October 2010, 07:07:55 »
Gosh....

Didn't know they were such a pain to attach to a piece of PCB. I need to drill holes at exactly the right positions...

Ah well : my knowledge of keyboard switches increases every day!

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« Reply #12 on: Thu, 21 October 2010, 07:52:45 »
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@Ripster : I also thought of that, but it is on its own trip right now ;-)

I might be able to convince Topre to give me 10 of those key chains so I can make 10 STB's with topre keyswitches on them. Anybody knows how to contact them ?

Regards.


I sent a letter groveling for a keychain shortly (days) before the keychain sink list started since I had never tried a Topre switch. $1.83 in postage from the US to Japan. Sent it in English, so I'm curious to see if I get a reply.

As far as contacting them, I found the address by Googling, but you seem to have it already:

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