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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: frew on Sun, 09 June 2013, 01:10:32

Title: Where do the keycaps go?
Post by: frew on Sun, 09 June 2013, 01:10:32

Sorry for such a stupid title, I'm not sure how else to put it.

I got in on the second Ergodox massdrop and spent all day today soldering (and resoldering when I remembered that the direction of diodes matters :/) and whatnot and got my keyboard all put together with (surprisingly to me) only one faulty key, which was easy enough to fix.  After I got it all together I poured out my keys which I got in the ErgoDox PBT DSA Keycaps Massdrop and fairly quickly realized that there are more shapes than I know what to do with and that caps on cherry MX's are really hard to pry off with your bare hands. 

Anyway, there are a lot of shapes here and I don't know what goes where.  If someone has a good sized diagram from Signature Plastics for which keys go where that would be very helpful.  Thanks!

Title: Re: Where do the keycaps go?
Post by: The_Beast on Sun, 09 June 2013, 01:13:18

DSA is a uniform profile

Title: Re: Where do the keycaps go?
Post by: kmiller8 on Sun, 09 June 2013, 01:13:48

(http://ergodox.org/Images/ErgoDox_001_L.png)

Title: Re: Where do the keycaps go?
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 09 June 2013, 01:14:14

Edit: Sorry., not Ergo Dox.

Title: Re: Where do the keycaps go?
Post by: frew on Sun, 09 June 2013, 14:24:41

Sorry, I guess I wasn't very clear; I was hoping someone could say that the shortest keys would go at the top or something.  To be clear, here are a few of the different key types I got: http://imgur.com/iB2H4x9  I'm not really sure which goes where

Title: Re: Where do the keycaps go?
Post by: frew on Sun, 09 June 2013, 15:33:53

I think I got them all aligned.  If anyone is interested here are some pictures: http://imgur.com/NNRRo9z,9SOenA2#0