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Title: Ace Pad Tech Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: chyros on Sat, 25 March 2017, 08:46:07
My first HD keyboard review. This one took about as long to make as the six that preceded it, put together. Hopefully you'll like the end result!

Title: Re: XMIT Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: klennkellon on Sun, 26 March 2017, 00:17:36
I love how the switches clip in and out, easy to maintain! Although I don't see much modding potential in these.

That sound is kind of nasty. It kind of sounds like metallic MX Blacks.
Title: Re: XMIT Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: chyros on Sun, 26 March 2017, 07:43:14
I love how the switches clip in and out, easy to maintain! Although I don't see much modding potential in these.
You should be able to mod them to linear, tactile or clicky, and to any weight you want. I'm not sure how the modding potential is LIMITED in these actually xD .
Title: Re: XMIT Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: klennkellon on Sun, 26 March 2017, 09:21:57
I love how the switches clip in and out, easy to maintain! Although I don't see much modding potential in these.
You should be able to mod them to linear, tactile or clicky, and to any weight you want. I'm not sure how the modding potential is LIMITED in these actually xD .
Oh, right. x_x
Title: Re: XMIT Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: blacknblue on Sun, 26 March 2017, 20:49:36
The new video looked (and sounded) great.  What part of it took so long to produce?  Is it the speed of editing and post-processing the (presumably much larger) HD video files?
Title: Re: XMIT Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: klennkellon on Sun, 26 March 2017, 21:01:29
The new video looked (and sounded) great.  What part of it took so long to produce?  Is it the speed of editing and post-processing the (presumably much larger) HD video files?
If he sets up another fundraiser we sure could raise him enough money for an SSD!
Title: Re: XMIT Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: chyros on Sun, 26 March 2017, 21:44:34
The new video looked (and sounded) great.  What part of it took so long to produce?  Is it the speed of editing and post-processing the (presumably much larger) HD video files?
If he sets up another fundraiser we sure could raise him enough money for an SSD!
I have a (very small) SSD actually xD .

It took a long time to find a good setup for the lighting, camera, microphone and me that worked for this, so working out the logistics took a while by itself. The script took ages to make as well because of the amount of content (I scratched about a third of it in the end) and was done in a different way from the normal way. The actual filming took much longer to do as well, not just because of the amount of stuff but also because I had to constantly reposition the camera, re-focus, clue the mic, etc. Not to mention the whole underwater thing. I total I filmed 61 different scenes not counting the slides sequences, underwater bits, the typing demo etc. Then after that I had to edit all of these, and sync up the mic audio with the camera audio for every individual scene, all in a program I'd never used before. The exporting takes ages, and I had to check and revise the whole thing five or so times.

I made a screenshot of it:

(http://i.imgur.com/OQoyKqh.png)

So yeah, bit of a labour of love, this one :p .
Title: Re: XMIT Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: merlin64 on Mon, 27 March 2017, 14:42:48
I know how you feel, setting up lighting and camera and making sure everything is in focus etc etc takes a long while.
Title: Re: XMIT Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 27 March 2017, 21:26:34
Another great review!

Are the switches from olden Hall effect keyboards interchangeable with modern ones?
Title: Re: XMIT Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: chyros on Tue, 28 March 2017, 03:21:33
Another great review!

Are the switches from olden Hall effect keyboards interchangeable with modern ones?
No.
Title: Re: Ace Pad Tech Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 28 March 2017, 11:26:41
if something goes wrong on the board..  do we gotta dissolve their epoxy to get to the components?

or is it just a thin layer we can cut through.
Title: Re: Ace Pad Tech Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: chyros on Tue, 28 March 2017, 13:12:50
if something goes wrong on the board..  do we gotta dissolve their epoxy to get to the components?

or is it just a thin layer we can cut through.
It's very thin, but it's also surface mount, so it's not easy to solder on to begin with.
Title: Re: Ace Pad Tech Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 29 March 2017, 11:33:23
if something goes wrong on the board..  do we gotta dissolve their epoxy to get to the components?

or is it just a thin layer we can cut through.
It's very thin, but it's also surface mount, so it's not easy to solder on to begin with.


So this keyboard is safer from soda spills,  but it's irreparably 1-hit KO from drops potentially..

Is such a keyboard more or less durable than the vanilla given such limitations.. hrrrmmm.. ~~!
Title: Re: Ace Pad Tech Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: chyros on Wed, 29 March 2017, 13:11:05
if something goes wrong on the board..  do we gotta dissolve their epoxy to get to the components?

or is it just a thin layer we can cut through.
It's very thin, but it's also surface mount, so it's not easy to solder on to begin with.


So this keyboard is safer from soda spills,  but it's irreparably 1-hit KO from drops potentially..

Is such a keyboard more or less durable than the vanilla given such limitations.. hrrrmmm.. ~~!
The case is basically solid plastic, so I don't think you have to worry about dropping damages all that much. It's very well-built, in truth.
Title: Re: Ace Pad Tech Hall effect keyboard review (Ace Pad Tech Hall effect)
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 30 March 2017, 05:13:32
if something goes wrong on the board..  do we gotta dissolve their epoxy to get to the components?

or is it just a thin layer we can cut through.
It's very thin, but it's also surface mount, so it's not easy to solder on to begin with.


So this keyboard is safer from soda spills,  but it's irreparably 1-hit KO from drops potentially..

Is such a keyboard more or less durable than the vanilla given such limitations.. hrrrmmm.. ~~!
The case is basically solid plastic, so I don't think you have to worry about dropping damages all that much. It's very well-built, in truth.

Irreparable is the issue, regardless of how solid it is.


For example, you can make a sword out of glass, it may very well be the sharpest sword ever..  but as soon as the edge takes a kink, or the sword shatters,  you can't put it back together.


With a steel sword, it wouldn't be remotely as sharp as a glass sword, but you kill the bad guy, the blade gets dull, you heat it up, hit it with a hammer,  and it's as good as new.