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Title: Hello from San Francisco, Cali
Post by: trvrsna on Sun, 31 May 2020, 17:04:41
I've always liked mechanical keyboards but now I've finally gave in and built my own and I love it. Now I'm deep in the hole of the keyboard realm and building a second keyboard that I don't even need.

Something I'm really interested in is the Poly carbonate Rukia with the Alice layout. I saw a GB in a thread but then I realized that it was posted a year ago. Any word on when the next group buy will come out and how do people even get word on when these group buys come out?

Also, should I go to ask questions like these? I can't find threads that are for questions.

And on the switches, some are really popular and sell out really fast, where should I go to be updated for when they come out so I can cop some?
Title: Re: Hello from San Francisco, Cali
Post by: econeuler on Mon, 01 June 2020, 07:11:37
I've always liked mechanical keyboards but now I've finally gave in and built my own and I love it. Now I'm deep in the hole of the keyboard realm and building a second keyboard that I don't even need.

Something I'm really interested in is the Poly carbonate Rukia with the Alice layout. I saw a GB in a thread but then I realized that it was posted a year ago. Any word on when the next group buy will come out and how do people even get word on when these group buys come out?

Also, should I go to ask questions like these? I can't find threads that are for questions.

And on the switches, some are really popular and sell out really fast, where should I go to be updated for when they come out so I can cop some?

Hi!

What keyboards have you built so far? Have you found a specific layout that you like?  :)

Regarding the Alice layout I have no idea, I haven't seen any pure clone that is up for GB soon, but here you have some similar projects that are in progress that I just found by looking in the forum (there's probably more):

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=99203.0;topicseen
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=104820.0;topicseen
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=105120.0;topicseen
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=106704.0

Regarding where to find IC/GB, I think the forums here are quite good, and then you can also check you this post:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=57761.0

Here you have some links to GB pages, furthermore r/mechgroupbuys usually posts the large ones.