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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK MTNU Selectresque - An IBM Selectric-inspired blue doubleshot PBT set
« Last post by LASERman Projects on Sun, 15 September 2024, 10:59:27 »
Happy to finally see more vibrant colour for MTNU but personally would prefer two tone theme i.e. deep blue mods and more mod icons.
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Off Topic / Re: What did you do today?
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sun, 15 September 2024, 09:34:59 »
Desoldered these big boys. Old small sub.

Heatgun to the rescue. 

pssshh.. br.br.br.br noise + minor 60hz hum... prolly main filter cap going bad yea?

309830-0
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Reviews / Hojicha Reserve Switch Review
« Last post by ThereminGoat on Sun, 15 September 2024, 09:26:12 »
Hey all,

Ever since I was lucky enough to get to debut these switches in my Chicago meetup panel titled 'The Untold Stories of Unsold Switches' I knew for a fact that I wanted to write a full length review for them. Well, that time has come! This week I take a deep dive not only into the Invokeys Hojicha Reserve switches, but also the deep development and prototyping process that brought these gold flake embedded switches to us today...

Website: https://www.theremingoat.com/
Article: https://www.theremingoat.com/blog/hojicha-reserve-switch-review
Scorecard Repository: https://github.com/ThereminGoat/switch-scores
Force Curve Repository: https://github.com/ThereminGoat/force-curves
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremingoat

As always, thank you all for the continued support and readership week in and out. This review was a particularly long and difficult one to write for various technical issues but knowing that you all would really like seeing the prototype phases that went into these switches made it easier to stick through it all.

Cheers,
Goat
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Off Topic / Re: Shell o' No-Shell
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sun, 15 September 2024, 08:05:26 »
But when you got the peanut shell, getting it open and apart is very exciting, one would suppose, it's what the inner squirrel in all of us desires.

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Off Topic / Re: What are you listening to right now? [2.0]
« Last post by atarione on Sun, 15 September 2024, 07:23:04 »
Black Flag - White Minority + Depression Live 1979: (Ron Reyes Vocals)
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] ROSE75 - 75% Keyboard (by NEWONE)
« Last post by RozenKristal on Sun, 15 September 2024, 06:50:55 »
Seems like they doing more testing but will release within this year per their comment on discord
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK MTNU Selectresque - An IBM Selectric-inspired blue doubleshot PBT set
« Last post by Piperaceae on Sun, 15 September 2024, 06:29:26 »
Thank you to all of you who have commented and filled out the form so far! I'm not really sure how many form responses I need before I speak to a vendor; until now I've always worked with Signature Plastics, who act as manufacturer and vendor for their in-stock sets, so this is kind of new to me. I'll just keep collecting until I hit a big round number?

I really hope I can make colorful MTNU happen. PBT has developed this myth around it that it has to be dull and muted like chalk, but that's not the case at all. And while I've loved Susu, Dolch, and the like, there's clearly a market for color in this profile. Again, thanks to everyone for the encouragement.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] RAE | ADAMAS - 65% Integrated Top Mount
« Last post by Garlic Fanatic on Sun, 15 September 2024, 06:02:07 »
Reading through the comments, i can understand why so many are skeptical of it. There are too many bold moves for your first project, like not including a PCB for a $500 board, and the arbitrary mounting system.

Bottom weight looks nice, but the diamond design on the back of the board and on the PCB silkscreen really does look so generic that it cheapens the whole concept of the board imo

GLWIC ig, everyone starts from somewhere after all
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] FUFU with a complete self-developed topre kit
« Last post by Garlic Fanatic on Sun, 15 September 2024, 05:21:38 »
Mhhm nice side bezels, pricing looks good too. GLWIC!
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Keyboards / Re: Help/opinions building my mechanical keyboard
« Last post by Garlic Fanatic on Sun, 15 September 2024, 05:16:42 »
Quote from: palta on Wed, 11 September 2024, 18:24:16
Neo65
Haimu Heartbeat
PBTfans BOW Keycap Set Doubleshot PBT

Now where I'm lost is what pcb option to choose with the Neo65 that's offered and the plate too.

PCB options: Solder non-flex cut pcb, Tri-mode Non-flex cut hotswap pcb, Wired Non-flex cut hotswap pcb.
I'd like a hotswap 100% but I don't know the differences with those two pcb's.

With a plate there's: Plateless, ALU Plate, FR4 Plate, PC Plate, POM Plate, CF Plate.
I feel like choosing plateless because I want to build the keyboard from scratch with my own choices/liking.
Problem with that is that I don't know how to go about that, know what fits in the keyboard, how much I can put in for noise dampening, sizes, etc.

If you have any tips on how to research that, it'd be so awesome and I'd be very grateful!

For the PCB, it comes down to your need of wirless connectivity or not, if you do need wireless, then go for the tri-mode PCB.

Plateless doesn't work well with hotswap, even Neo themselves recommended against it as the switches may not sit securely in the hotswap PCB. As for the materials, you can check out the product page of the Neo65 where they listed a brief description of each materials (in terms of feel and sound). Check out some youtube videos as well to have a better understanding, but bear in mind that factors such as the recording and your speakers does not translate the sound that you may hear directly onto your keyboard.

The board also comes with a few layers of foams, and it's best that you try it out with different configurations of it to find what you truly like
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