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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #50 on: Tue, 13 May 2014, 09:59:24 »
Looking good!

What made you choose to use an MX-Blue for your CapsLock / Control?

Thanks!  It's a blue stem with a clear spring. That way it's a little difficult to accidentally toggle the caps lock. The click also let's me know it's been pressed. ;D
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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #51 on: Tue, 13 May 2014, 12:44:28 »
Looking good!

What made you choose to use an MX-Blue for your CapsLock / Control?

Thanks!  It's a blue stem with a clear spring. That way it's a little difficult to accidentally toggle the caps lock. The click also let's me know it's been pressed. ;D

I'm prolly gonna use a green switch for my caps lock. Hah. And maybe a dark grey for my space bar. :)
Others will be clears with 62g. What do you think ? :D
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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #52 on: Tue, 13 May 2014, 14:29:13 »
Looking good!

What made you choose to use an MX-Blue for your CapsLock / Control?

Thanks!  It's a blue stem with a clear spring. That way it's a little difficult to accidentally toggle the caps lock. The click also let's me know it's been pressed. ;D

Hmm..that's not bad of an idea.  :) Might use it for my upcoming builds and see how I like it.
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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #53 on: Thu, 15 May 2014, 07:56:59 »
Soldering time!  I think I need to retr0bright my Hakko.. :))



So I finished soldering and discovered that the Backspace LED was not working.  I replaced the LED and nothing.  I replaced the resistor and still nothing.  Until I read the notation on the PCB: LED:N/L.  Apparently, this means that the LED is the toggle indicator for the Num Lock that is enabled by FN + U.



Now for the pics!







Popped my HyperFuse set:


My wife calls this an unusually small keyboard.  She hasn't seen the JD40. :p

Bonus!


Bob the CC 3D: "Hey bro!  That's my spot!"
Rusty the Steel V2 BB: "You snooze, you lose baby!"
Bob: *grunting*
Grumblegut: *grunting*

=== = == === = ==

I actually finished this yesterday afternoon and have been typing on it since then.  So far I haven't had any sticking problems with lubed 55g clears but I have noticed that my habit of resting my fingers on keys have led to unintended actuations. :))

At first I was frustrated by the lack of dedicated keys (F5, arrow keys, Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down) but after an afternoon marathon of emailing, surfing, Photoshop, and word processing I'm getting used to using the FN layer.  I particularly enjoy how the function layer allows for everything to be right there

The only downside I foresee is when I need to do work in Excel...meh...I can whip out a full-size if and when that happens...or do is it time to get a Num Pad? :))

Edit: Reuploaded pictures to Imgur.  RIP Dropbox Public Folder.
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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #54 on: Thu, 15 May 2014, 10:06:15 »
Looks nice, awesome pictures  :thumb:

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #55 on: Thu, 15 May 2014, 10:11:35 »
Nice pictures, and glad that you're finally done with the build!  :thumb:
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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #56 on: Thu, 15 May 2014, 10:36:51 »
Great !  Now are You into it's diverse Fucntions?   :thumb:

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #57 on: Fri, 16 May 2014, 09:45:26 »
Great !  Now are You into it's diverse Fucntions?   :thumb:

Umm..not really.  I've figured out to use the keymapper at http://boot.winkeyless.kr/bootMapper/ but I haven't thought of anything useful to map that isn't already in the default fn layer. ^-^

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #58 on: Wed, 28 May 2014, 19:54:52 »
Some kinf of numlock for FN which would turn part of your keyboard as a numpad maybe?

Just shooting ideas here, didn't have a look at the mapper tool.

I've ordered a PCB from Sprit, the SMS soldering thing is very scary to me (I only have a fixed watts iron and it can melt the pcb when it stays too close for too long).

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #59 on: Wed, 28 May 2014, 22:42:41 »
Some kinf of numlock for FN which would turn part of your keyboard as a numpad maybe?

Just shooting ideas here, didn't have a look at the mapper tool.

I've ordered a PCB from Sprit, the SMS soldering thing is very scary to me (I only have a fixed watts iron and it can melt the pcb when it stays too close for too long).

I was intending on doing that but I'm having issues with the Boot Mapper (http://boot.winkeyless.kr/bootMapper).

Also in writing this post, I just realized that there's a check box for apply to all layers so that basically sorts out the issues I was having.

I'll go work on the numpad layer and report back later. :thumb:

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #60 on: Tue, 24 June 2014, 04:13:16 »
Ye, Should be Careful for the checkbox  'Apply to all layers'.
This will ignore individual layer Keysetting.


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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #61 on: Mon, 18 August 2014, 06:31:45 »
I just notice you use 55g for the ergo clear. How's the feel on it? Does the switch stick? I was planning to go with this route but still contemplating on it. Another question, did you use a thin lube or thick lube? Did you both lube the slider and the legs of the stem?

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #62 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 09:13:36 »
I just notice you use 55g for the ergo clear. How's the feel on it? Does the switch stick? I was planning to go with this route but still contemplating on it. Another question, did you use a thin lube or thick lube? Did you both lube the slider and the legs of the stem?

I followed sprit's lube points:



and the Cherry MX Switch Lubrication Guide:


I used a 50-50 mix of Krytox GPL 206 grease and Krytox VPF 1506 oil.  It's kinda thick

Some keys would stick when I pressed on them and released it very slowly.  I relubed them and everything was fine.

The keys with stabilizer stuck (particularly my right shift) I lubed the switch and stabilizers some more but still had some sticking or slow rebound.  It might be the shift or the stabilizer but I put in a clear spring in all the stabilized keys and called it a day.

P.S. A heavy Backspace and Enter is actually fun!

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #63 on: Tue, 19 August 2014, 19:59:36 »
I followed sprit's lube points:

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and the Cherry MX Switch Lubrication Guide:
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I used a 50-50 mix of Krytox GPL 206 grease and Krytox VPF 1506 oil.  It's kinda thick

Some keys would stick when I pressed on them and released it very slowly.  I relubed them and everything was fine.

The keys with stabilizer stuck (particularly my right shift) I lubed the switch and stabilizers some more but still had some sticking or slow rebound.  It might be the shift or the stabilizer but I put in a clear spring in all the stabilized keys and called it a day.

P.S. A heavy Backspace and Enter is actually fun!

Thanks infiniti, I'll take note of this when I assemble my ergo clear.  :thumb:

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #64 on: Sun, 15 February 2015, 00:21:06 »
I have not seen an orange case like this. Looks good!

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #65 on: Sun, 15 February 2015, 00:31:50 »
I have not seen an orange case like this. Looks good!

'because it's red. :)) Time to calibrate the monitor hehe

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #66 on: Sun, 15 February 2015, 01:35:18 »
I have not seen an orange case like this. Looks good!

'because it's red. :)) Time to calibrate the monitor hehe

Maybe it through me off since your Ctrl caps are "reder" It's 2am too so that might have something to do with it too.

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Re: infiniti assembles a 60% Keyboard (FaceW PCB)
« Reply #67 on: Sun, 15 February 2015, 02:05:21 »
I have not seen an orange case like this. Looks good!

'because it's red. :)) Time to calibrate the monitor hehe

Maybe it through me off since your Ctrl caps are "reder" It's 2am too so that might have something to do with it too.

Now that you mention, that might be it.  Here's a pic of a similarly SP red Esc and a GMK red Esc...



Edit: Reuploaded pictures to Imgur.  RIP Dropbox Public Folder.
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