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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: FrostyToast on Thu, 08 August 2013, 20:32:32

Title: Extended Spacebar like the Steelseries Apex for cherry switches.
Post by: FrostyToast on Thu, 08 August 2013, 20:32:32

Do any of you know if I can get an extended spacebar as seen on the Steelseries Apex? It would make typing and gaming much more comfortable for me as I naturally end up having my thumb rest below the spacebar.

Title: Re: Extended Spacebar like the Steelseries Apex for cherry switches.
Post by: BlueBär on Fri, 09 August 2013, 08:40:05

I have never seen such a spacebar for a mech and doubt that it exists. It also wouldn't fit in a normal case (GON's cases would work though, also that Pure CNC case that is kind of similar).

Title: Re: Extended Spacebar like the Steelseries Apex for cherry switches.
Post by: strafe on Fri, 09 August 2013, 22:44:07

Gigabyte do one.  http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4179#ov

But as said earlier you wouldn't be able to use it on another keyboard unless you built a custom case.

Title: Re: Extended Spacebar like the Steelseries Apex for cherry switches.
Post by: Topre on Fri, 09 August 2013, 23:01:17

You can glue a piece of plastic, metal, or cardboard on to your spacebar. That way it will extend as much as you want. You can probably even use it as a wrist rest spacebar, if you made it big enough.

Title: Re: Extended Spacebar like the Steelseries Apex for cherry switches.
Post by: The_Ed on Fri, 09 August 2013, 23:34:10

Your best bet would probably be to have one milled out of titanium as new plastic molds are like a few grand. You could probably get Hammer to do it, it wont be cheap but it'll be beautiful.

Title: Re: Extended Spacebar like the Steelseries Apex for cherry switches.
Post by: jacobolus on Mon, 25 January 2016, 19:14:37

Necro-ing this thread...

Someone really needs to make an MX keycap in the same dimensions (2.5x1.5u) as the Matias ErgoPro spacebar, so that new-layout keyboards can use that shape with both MX and Alps switch compatibility.

Spacebars on standard keyboards are about 1/2u too close to the letter keys, but nobody wants a keyboard with an awkward 1/2u gap between keys.

Pic for reference:
(http://i.imgur.com/NfvHT7K.jpg)

Title: Re: Extended Spacebar like the Steelseries Apex for cherry switches.
Post by: FrostyToast on Mon, 25 January 2016, 19:21:26

Woah.
Who the hell made this thread?
Is that me?
****, I was a totally different person back then.

Type travel is possible!