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Title: This is silly of me:
Post by: merrysnail on Mon, 11 May 2015, 13:50:26
Hi everyone! Is there a way to change my name from "merrysnail" to either "0o0o" or "o0o0"? Help would be appreciated, and sorry if this is silly of me.
Title: Re: This is silly of me:
Post by: nubbinator on Mon, 11 May 2015, 14:15:33
I believe you can change your nick by messaging a mod, but I don't remember ever seeing something to do so in the profile settings.
Title: Re: This is silly of me:
Post by: merrysnail on Mon, 11 May 2015, 14:22:29
Thank you, I'm pretty new here, so could you please link me to a mods page?
Title: This is silly of me:
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Mon, 11 May 2015, 16:12:52
Quote from: merrysnail on Mon, 11 May 2015, 14:22:29
Thank you, I'm pretty new here, so could you please link me to a mods page?

I'm a mod!  :D

Edit: Also I PMed you, I didn't just say this and bail  :P
Title: Re: This is silly of me:
Post by: CPTBadAss on Mon, 11 May 2015, 16:14:15
Quote from: merrysnail on Mon, 11 May 2015, 14:22:29
Thank you, I'm pretty new here, so could you please link me to a mods page?

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69449.0
Title: Re: This is silly of me:
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 13 May 2015, 05:34:04
Welcome to Geekhack!

Name changes generally don't happen, but if you're nice enough to the mods (Hoff in particular) you'll find that he'll bend over backwards to help you :)

Assuming you didn't just join to pick the wrong username, what keyboard have you got, or are you planning to get?
Title: Re: This is silly of me:
Post by: merrysnail on Wed, 13 May 2015, 13:12:20
Haha, I'll try to be nice :) I havn't actually bought a mechanical keyboard, but I've written on one, and it was pure finger magic. I really like the design of all the Poker keyboards, as well as the Ergodox (although I don't think I will ever be able to write on one :P). Another idea I've got (or a long term goal) is to build a keyboard my self, from scratch. But as I said it'll probably be a while, and I think I will do something smaller to train my soldering skills.
Title: Re: This is silly of me:
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 16 May 2015, 21:31:13
Building from a kit?  or designing one from scratch?

The former can be accomplished fairly readily - kits are available with varying degrees of components included and/or already installed.

Designing from scratch is another game altogether!
Title: Re: This is silly of me:
Post by: merrysnail on Sun, 17 May 2015, 10:38:47
Both would be fun to do, but I think I might start with a kit, I'm not a welding/designer pro :P Do you have any tips for a good starter kit?
Title: Re: This is silly of me:
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 23 May 2015, 22:09:11
No welding required :p

There were a couple of "learning to solder" kits from geekhackers.org (https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=164.0), but none at the moment that I know of.  That would have been the best kit, put together by Geekhackers for Geekhackers.

Maybe there will be another one soon.