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Title: New to geekhack and mechanical keyboards. HI from Virginia!
Post by: MediocreBadGuy23 on Mon, 16 May 2016, 08:29:19

I built a new computer earlier this year, then moved my obsession towards keyboards. After researching for weeks, I got the magicforce 68 with cherry mx browns and I love it. Now I just bought a soldering iron and a DIY cable kit and am looking to make a custom cable. My next project is to build a KC60 kit I found on aliexpress so I figured I'd get soldering experience making the cable first. So I'll be on here pretty often looking for help and guidance in my keyboard journey!!

Title: Re: New to geekhack and mechanical keyboards. HI from Virginia!
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 18 May 2016, 05:56:53

Welcome to Geekhack!

Making stuff together (https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=117.0) is an excellent place to start looking for information about making cables and keyboards.

When you do get started, you're welcome to create a build thread there to record your progress.

Title: Re: New to geekhack and mechanical keyboards. HI from Virginia!
Post by: MediocreBadGuy23 on Wed, 18 May 2016, 08:25:37

Thanks I'll have to check out some build logs from there. I should be getting my cable sometime this week or next so I'll be sure to post lots of pictures and keep a build log

Title: Re: New to geekhack and mechanical keyboards. HI from Virginia!
Post by: xtrafrood on Wed, 18 May 2016, 09:07:38

Welcome :)

The Living Soldering Thread (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=42824.0) Is a great resource for people just getting into soldering

Title: Re: New to geekhack and mechanical keyboards. HI from Virginia!
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 19 May 2016, 05:44:22

Quote from: csmertx on Wed, 18 May 2016, 09:07:38

Welcome :)

The Living Soldering Thread (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=42824.0) Is a great resource for people just getting into soldering

+1

And if you need to practice soldering, see if you can find an old electronic device (broken DVD player, flatscreen monitor - anything with a PCB with a few components on it).  Then get your soldering iron out and desolder and resolder the components in.  Great practice, and you can't break anything as it was broken to start with.  Once you get the hang of soldering it's not that difficult, and eventually just becomes routine.