back light use less.
im guessing most of the people on this forum can touch type..
EDIT: your battery will drain like a madaF**** it would at least half your battery life.
any ways... what keyboard are you making
back light use less.
im guessing most of the people on this forum can touch type..
EDIT: your battery will drain like a madaF**** it would at least half your battery life.
any ways... what keyboard are you making
Either sprit or mod a poker. Prefer to make a sprit board, as pokers are expensive. Was thinking about going down the 40% road, but it doesn't have a full alpha set. Put on an alum plate, ergo clears, an alum case, and I'll have a good travel board.
Either that or filco minila air or some other wireless board. Maybe matias has a 60% wireless board with quiet switches in the workings.
back light use less.
im guessing most of the people on this forum can touch type..
EDIT: your battery will drain like a madaF**** it would at least half your battery life.
any ways... what keyboard are you making
Either sprit or mod a poker. Prefer to make a sprit board, as pokers are expensive. Was thinking about going down the 40% road, but it doesn't have a full alpha set. Put on an alum plate, ergo clears, an alum case, and I'll have a good travel board.
Either that or filco minila air or some other wireless board. Maybe matias has a 60% wireless board with quiet switches in the workings.
Cool, personally i think wireless is not reliable for keyboards yet and not that use fil due to the fact your keyboard does not move like your mouse.
If your planning to travel with some laptop setup just get a short cable that's the perfect length.
back light use less.
im guessing most of the people on this forum can touch type..
EDIT: your battery will drain like a madaF**** it would at least half your battery life.
any ways... what keyboard are you making
Either sprit or mod a poker. Prefer to make a sprit board, as pokers are expensive. Was thinking about going down the 40% road, but it doesn't have a full alpha set. Put on an alum plate, ergo clears, an alum case, and I'll have a good travel board.
Either that or filco minila air or some other wireless board. Maybe matias has a 60% wireless board with quiet switches in the workings.
Cool, personally i think wireless is not reliable for keyboards yet and not that use fil due to the fact your keyboard does not move like your mouse.
If your planning to travel with some laptop setup just get a short cable that's the perfect length.
I'd like a bluetooth board to use with a phone.
40% just sounds like it would be a pain to use... Go with 60% minimum.
I like backlighting with thick, non-backlit keycaps. This seems to be popular among the Korean crowd as well.
40% just sounds like it would be a pain to use... Go with 60% minimum.
I like backlighting with thick, non-backlit keycaps. This seems to be popular among the Korean crowd as well.
Yea. At first I thought it was just a 60% minus the top row. Turns out it does that plus chop off extra keys. I can memorize one layer plus part of another, but not two.
With thick caps, the backlighting surrounds the caps right, making your board glow in a sense?
The thing is... He wants to go wireless, Im pretty sure he can't power 60 leds off batteries for a reasonable amount of time40% just sounds like it would be a pain to use... Go with 60% minimum.
I like backlighting with thick, non-backlit keycaps. This seems to be popular among the Korean crowd as well.
Yea. At first I thought it was just a 60% minus the top row. Turns out it does that plus chop off extra keys. I can memorize one layer plus part of another, but not two.
With thick caps, the backlighting surrounds the caps right, making your board glow in a sense?
Yes, this is a good example of what I'm talking about:Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/yBEL2LG.jpg)
The thing is... He wants to go wireless, Im pretty sure he can't power 60 leds off batteries for a reasonable amount of time40% just sounds like it would be a pain to use... Go with 60% minimum.
I like backlighting with thick, non-backlit keycaps. This seems to be popular among the Korean crowd as well.
Yea. At first I thought it was just a 60% minus the top row. Turns out it does that plus chop off extra keys. I can memorize one layer plus part of another, but not two.
With thick caps, the backlighting surrounds the caps right, making your board glow in a sense?
Yes, this is a good example of what I'm talking about:Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/yBEL2LG.jpg)
I don't have any backlighting on mine. it helps you learn to type by feel faster, but if you are going to get a keyboard with no lighting you HAVE to get thick PTB caps its must. If you want backlighting you can go abs or normal ptb caps i would go for the ptb caps
The biggest question you've got to ask yourself is, are you going to use your keyboard in the dark?
Is that aftermarket lighting? I'd love to have something similar on my G80...40% just sounds like it would be a pain to use... Go with 60% minimum.
I like backlighting with thick, non-backlit keycaps. This seems to be popular among the Korean crowd as well.
Yea. At first I thought it was just a 60% minus the top row. Turns out it does that plus chop off extra keys. I can memorize one layer plus part of another, but not two.
With thick caps, the backlighting surrounds the caps right, making your board glow in a sense?
Yes, this is a good example of what I'm talking about:Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/yBEL2LG.jpg)
Do whatever you like most. Why do you need us to tell you how to live your life?Did you even read the original post? The concerns about battery life are the reason for his question, not whether or not others approve of his preference...
Pacifist if you do backlight make sure you get plenty of these ::)
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=51126.0 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=51126.0)
I am not a huge backlighting fan, but I am going to backlight my board from sprit and use thick abs keycaps on it, GMK classic beige to be exact. I like the glow from under affect WAY more than glowing through the keycaps.
Although, I am going to say, I don't think any configuration of sprits board is going to be cheaper than a poker 2. Poker 2 can be had for 100-120.
Minimum price for sprits board
$50- PCB
$20- Cheapest Plate available from sprit (acrylic, not even metal)
$45- Lets say this is the cost of switches
$10- Leds
$???- What case are you putting it in???
$8- Stabilizers
$20-40- Shipping
There is probably even more cost behind it, soldering supplies, etc.