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Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« on: Fri, 17 July 2015, 11:56:17 »
Get your searching fingers ready people, time to post your nominations for July's keyboard of the month competition!

Last month's winner was Bazh's Codename: Weaven



Nominations will close two weeks from now, on the 31st of July.

Disclaimer: I am moving house a week today. Because of that I will more than likely not have internet before the 31st of this month. I will try to do the opening and closing of threads as close to the dates as physically possible, but if I am unable to get on a PC to do the pasting of images, then please forgive me.

Rules are here:
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1.   A nomination thread will go up for the last two weeks of every month. You can nominate anybody you like, (even yourself) and any person can have any number of nominations every month.

a.   These boards should be ones you are drawn to, ones that stand out for one reason or another. Keysets, modifications, whatever you fancy. I don’t want to have to post guidelines or restrictions on the boards, but I may change this depending on the types of submissions we get over the first few months. Please also say a little bit about each board you nominate, as to the reasons why you think it deserves to be up for KOTM.

b.   The board must have been posted to the forums since the start of the calendar month. It can have been posted before then, but you must provide a link to the images that were posted after the first day of the calendar month.

c.   Keyboards may be resubmitted in subsequent months, but they must have had a picture or progress posted within the calendar month that they are nominated for.

d.   NO THEMES RIGHT NOW. These may or may not follow in the coming months. This also may or may not tie in with the calendar that may or may not happen at the end of next year.

2.   However, after the initial two week period of nominations, a user will only have ONE board get through to the final public voting process. The final three nominees will be selected by myself from the most nominated and praised board in the nomination thread. E.G. If one board is posted and has the most +1s, quotes or references  by other users in said thread, that will be chosen as one of the final three. Essentially, there is a crowd unofficial voting before the public voting. The final three are not up to me, they are up to you.

3.   PLEASE post some good quality photos of the board you are nominating. I’m not looking for Macro lenses and DSLRs, but maybe more than one, top down, blurry shot would be nice. I realise if it isn’t your board there isn’t much you can do about it, but just pick a couple that aren’t terrible from an album or post.

4.   On the 1st of every month, a poll thread will go up. This will consist of three finalists. Again, a user will only have one of their boards get through to this stage during any particular month. You can of course be nominated on another month. There will be one vote per person, and the results will remain anonymous until the voting closes.

5.   After a period of one week, the voting will be closed and a winner will be announced. The winner will be posted both on that month's voting thread, and the following month's nominations thread. I’m not sure if there will be a prize every month, but if there is then I will sort it out and backdate it if I come up with one in a few months time.

6.   The winner of each monthly process will go through to the ANNUAL KEYBOARD OF THE YEAR process, and the winner of the will DEFINITELY win a prize which I will work out in a 5 months time.
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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 17 July 2015, 13:17:57 »
jokrik's clean af LZ SQ:

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 17 July 2015, 13:18:35 »
jokrik's clean af LZ SQ:

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 18 July 2015, 00:56:21 »
GL with the house move :)
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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 18 July 2015, 01:10:30 »
pr0x's mini
Finally got around to taking some decent pictures of the new caps on the Mini:

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 18 July 2015, 02:58:39 »
jokrik's clean af LZ SQ:

Seems like my post got deleted due to GH rebooted last night

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GL with the house move :)

Thanks man :)
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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 18 July 2015, 07:45:55 »
Uh oh, feel honored...
I might take decent photos tomorrow, was in rush at that time...
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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #7 on: Sat, 18 July 2015, 11:13:54 »
I'm gonna go ahead and nominate Mooksie's Model M.

I just think it looks clean as hell.

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #8 on: Sat, 18 July 2015, 12:42:18 »
I'm gonna go ahead and nominate Mooksie's Model M.

I just think it looks clean as hell.

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #9 on: Sat, 18 July 2015, 21:32:39 »
I'm gonna go ahead and nominate Mooksie's Model M.

I just think it looks clean as hell.

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+1

Love the num keys, very tempted to try a similar style on my M.
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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #10 on: Sat, 18 July 2015, 22:15:47 »


VoteForDavid completed his DK1 mod.

Dude took a rubber dome Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 and turned it into a mechanical keyboard. And documented every single step (and hour) he spent on the project. Legend.



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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #11 on: Sat, 18 July 2015, 22:21:44 »
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VoteForDavid completed his DK1 mod.

Dude took a rubber dome Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 and turned it into a mechanical keyboard. And documented every single step (and hour) he spent on the project. Legend.

Beat me to it. +1

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #12 on: Sun, 19 July 2015, 01:32:17 »
I'll throw njbair's Alps 60% into the mix (with Orange Alps from a IIGS, keycaps from an AEKII, hasu's 60% Alps PCB, and nubbinator's AEKII 60% plate. Right at home in a black TEX aluminum case).

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45475.msg1804065#msg1804065

Mainly because of all the nice parts that went into making it, and the fact that the result looks great!

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #13 on: Sun, 19 July 2015, 02:22:09 »
I'm gonna go ahead and nominate Mooksie's Model M.

I just think it looks clean as hell.

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Yes!  Very clean!  Almost so clean I can't see the legends on most of the keys!  All kidding aside, it is a very nice example.
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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #14 on: Sun, 19 July 2015, 03:30:40 »
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VoteForDavid completed his DK1 mod.

Dude took a rubber dome Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 and turned it into a mechanical keyboard. And documented every single step (and hour) he spent on the project. Legend.

That is some serious dedication to keeping true to a design.
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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #15 on: Sun, 19 July 2015, 08:27:51 »
I'll throw njbair's Alps 60% into the mix (with Orange Alps from a IIGS, keycaps from an AEKII, hasu's 60% Alps PCB, and nubbinator's AEKII 60% plate. Right at home in a black TEX aluminum case).

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45475.msg1804065#msg1804065

Mainly because of all the nice parts that went into making it, and the fact that the result looks great!

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #16 on: Mon, 20 July 2015, 10:52:55 »
jokrik's clean af LZ SQ:

Seems like my post got deleted due to GH rebooted last night

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jokrik's clean af LZ SQ:

Seems like my post got deleted due to GH rebooted last night

I'm BRINGING SEXYBACK YEAH!

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pr0x's mini
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+1 for both of these

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #17 on: Mon, 20 July 2015, 20:13:38 »
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VoteForDavid completed his DK1 mod.

Dude took a rubber dome Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 and turned it into a mechanical keyboard. And documented every single step (and hour) he spent on the project. Legend.
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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #18 on: Wed, 22 July 2015, 06:18:32 »
Uh oh, feel honored...
I might take decent photos tomorrow, was in rush at that time...
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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #19 on: Sat, 25 July 2015, 17:54:48 »
I am going to nominate Byker's pink & purple HHKB+23U.





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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #20 on: Sat, 25 July 2015, 17:55:13 »
I nominate ghostjuggernaut's 356CL DGE

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #21 on: Sat, 25 July 2015, 18:09:10 »
I nominate ghostjuggernaut's 356CL DGE

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #22 on: Sun, 26 July 2015, 11:24:54 »
I am going to nominate Byker's pink & purple HHKB+23U.

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https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=40658.msg1810489#msg1810489


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I nominate ghostjuggernaut's 356CL DGE

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #23 on: Mon, 27 July 2015, 16:03:20 »
Not moving house anymore because of various things, hopefully some time next week now.

Just a reminder that you have until Friday to get your nominations and +1s in!
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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #24 on: Mon, 27 July 2015, 16:05:07 »
I nominate ghostjuggernaut's 356CL DGE

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jokrik's clean af LZ SQ:

Seems like my post got deleted due to GH rebooted last night

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Re: Keyboard of the month - July - Nominations
« Reply #25 on: Thu, 30 July 2015, 14:34:37 »
Last 36 hours to get your nominations/+1s in!
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