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Title: Hello GH
Post by: FranklinScudder on Tue, 03 November 2015, 06:57:28

Hello GeekHack,

I'm Franklinscudder from the UK and I just made an account having lurked for a while mostly as a reason to make cute little pixel art versions of my keyboards! ;D The boards are a Rapid-i (ISO-UK) currently wearing cheap Tai-Hao white doubleshots and a few HotKeys to make it pretty ;) and a Dell AT101-W I rescued from a bin at uni, cleaned and repaired, all stock.

Currently looking for some nice mods to spruce up the Rapid-i, so if you know if there are any available give me a shout!

Title: Re: Hello GH
Post by: Lokomotivet on Tue, 03 November 2015, 07:28:57

Welcome!

Always nice to see someone that fancies making pixel art.
People have been modding CM Rapid-i's for some good time now. For its price I think that it's a solid TKL board with ISO layout, my only beef would be the crappy LEDs.
I'd suggest having a look at the CM case section for some neat modded cases: https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=152.0

Title: Re: Hello GH
Post by: CannabisWeekly on Tue, 03 November 2015, 07:32:29

Welcome!

Title: Re: Hello GH
Post by: mesteris on Tue, 03 November 2015, 07:51:27

Welcome!
Really love the pixel art that people don. Lets you know a little bit about them.

Title: Re: Hello GH
Post by: FranklinScudder on Tue, 03 November 2015, 12:51:41

Quote from: Lokomotivet on Tue, 03 November 2015, 07:28:57

my only beef would be the crappy LEDs.
I'd suggest having a look at the CM case section for some neat modded cases: https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=152.0

Yes, I've been lucky with the LEDs so far (fingers crossed that continues) although I've heard the horror stories. Modded cases sound great, Ill definitely look into that! I kinda hate the fingerprinty matte thing going on on the stock one so thanks for the link!

Title: Re: Hello GH
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 02:49:30

welcome to gh

Title: Re: Hello GH
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 07 November 2015, 22:51:19

Welcome to Geekhack!

More people able to make pixel art are always welcome :)

The simplest way, as you've probably already worked out, is to find a keyboard similar to the one you're making and just modify it.

Have you found the spreadsheet in that thread listing all of those made so far?  A very useful resource.