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Title: where my ducky shine at?
Post by: noodles256 on Wed, 13 July 2011, 11:32:15

http://coolaler.com/showthread.php?t=268753

Title: where my ducky shine at?
Post by: audioave10 on Wed, 13 July 2011, 11:57:22

Still waiting for delivery?

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Post by: noodles256 on Wed, 13 July 2011, 12:09:48

no

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Post by: noodles256 on Wed, 13 July 2011, 12:29:17

where is it?

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Post by: IvanIvanovich on Wed, 13 July 2011, 14:44:34

It does look kind of odd, they're 'centered' but the left half looks like its slightly right justified and the right half to the left.

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Post by: The Solutor on Wed, 13 July 2011, 14:49:29

Quote from: harrison;379653

not even SP could screw up the character positioning that bad.

I presume they [the keycaps maker] are using a real keyboard to do the first calibration, so the slight tolerances in placement of the switches, the switch wobbliness and so on will affect the following series of keycaps.

They are all the same, BWU, Mionix even xarmor on the first batches have slightly misplaced legends.

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Post by: The Solutor on Wed, 13 July 2011, 15:16:21

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these aren't slight though. the characters are centered on opposite halves of the key top?! when i can see the difference from a crappy cellphone picture, taken at an angle and out of focus, that's a bad sign.

Cellphones keyboards, as keyboards from logitech, microsoft etc.. are true industrial products, mech boards are, more or less artisanal products.

If (when) logitech will jump on the mechs bandwagon you will say goodbye to pinging filcos, uneven keys, not centered legends and so on...

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hopefully those are prototype pictures or something

Surely this is one of the very first prototypes.

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Post by: Lpb45 on Wed, 13 July 2011, 16:56:27

Quote from: harrison;379693

yes and no.  i think the real challenge here is one of the big issues ripster had originally.  the QC on these devices just isn't there, and more the point you're making, that's the difference.  legend placement on those keys is unacceptable, and shouldn't pass the factory's QC, let alone Ducky's.


but, we'll see once we see someone carrying this board.  maybe that's why we don't have them yet :flypig:

Its posible they did it purposly to make the backlighting seem better as the legend is directly over the led

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Post by: hemflit on Wed, 13 July 2011, 17:20:38

Sso.. the keys with two characters (top row, punctuation...) have the unshifted one on top and the shifted one on bottom?

Except the square brackets and backslash?

Honest silly mistake? Attempt at edginess? Both?

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Post by: Waterdr1nker on Wed, 13 July 2011, 17:23:21

I just want a backlit mech.

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Post by: digitalleftovers on Wed, 13 July 2011, 17:25:37

The BWU for the minimalist!

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Post by: The Solutor on Wed, 13 July 2011, 17:40:08

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Sso.. the keys with two characters (top row, punctuation...) have the unshifted one on top and the shifted one on bottom?

BW is the same, and is one of the think I dislike about them.

The idea is to have the main (unshifted) character evidenced by backlight and the secondary one were some space is left.

 Preproduction Xarmor had the legends both on top of the key, with the shifted ones placed slightly higher, the same is true for BL82.

My Xarmor and Qpad have the legends placed side by side, which is also a bit misleading.

I solved this way

(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3549/imag0337m.jpg)

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Post by: hemflit on Wed, 13 July 2011, 17:54:56

Wait, what? You dyed the right half of the key green or something?

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Post by: The Solutor on Wed, 13 July 2011, 17:59:51

I died both sides of keycaps and leds (white leds)

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Post by: digitalleftovers on Wed, 13 July 2011, 18:55:35

Quote from: The Solutor;379803

I died both sides of keycaps and leds (white leds)

You can dye LEDs?  I suppose that makes sense.  Also, kind of brilliant in a way.  +1 for The Solutor.

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Post by: noodles256 on Wed, 13 July 2011, 19:12:31

its like a christmas mech board.

ho ho ho

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Post by: keyboardlover on Wed, 13 July 2011, 19:27:12

How many threads does this question need??

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Post by: noodles256 on Wed, 13 July 2011, 20:21:57

Quote from: keyboardlover;379862

How many threads does this question need??

how many questions can be asked in this one thread?

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Post by: The Solutor on Wed, 13 July 2011, 21:20:50

Quote from: digitalleftovers;379838

You can dye LEDs?  I suppose that makes sense.  Also, kind of brilliant in a way.  +1 for The Solutor.

Not exactly dye, alcohol paint, durable but easy removable (with just alcohol).

http://www.****blick.com/products/staedtler-lumocolor-permanent-markers/

I'm lazy and I don't want to resolder 106 leds when I change my mind.

 (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:18297)(http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/8237/dsc0071zu.jpg) (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:18297)

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Post by: audioave10 on Wed, 13 July 2011, 22:45:49

That's creative and looks cool to me.

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Post by: noodles256 on Wed, 13 July 2011, 22:56:03

why would anyone click a link to a website called ****blick? lol

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Post by: keyboardlover on Wed, 13 July 2011, 23:06:46

Quote from: noodles256;380027

why wouldn't anyone click a link to a website called ****blick? lol

Fixed that for you.

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Post by: digitalleftovers on Wed, 13 July 2011, 23:37:28

Quote from: The Solutor;379985

Not exactly dye, alcohol paint, durable but easy removable (with just alcohol).

http://www.****blick.com/products/staedtler-lumocolor-permanent-markers/

I'm lazy and I don't want to resolder 106 leds when I change my mind.

 (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:18297)

Show Image

(http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/8237/dsc0071zu.jpg)

(http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:18297)

Still, quite clever.  I'm sure a lot of Black widow ultimate owners out there would pay for such a tip.

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Post by: hemflit on Thu, 14 July 2011, 03:07:40

Quote from: The Solutor;379985

Not exactly dye, alcohol paint, durable but easy removable (with just alcohol).

Cool!

Quote from: noodles256;380027

why would anyone click a link to a website called ****blick? lol

.. or want a keyboard called shine? :)
I kid, I kid.

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Post by: noodles256 on Sun, 17 July 2011, 12:30:29

i want mah shine

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Post by: noodles256 on Wed, 27 July 2011, 11:43:44

thats what i heard