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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => DIY Discussions ARCHIVE => Topic started by: mrbill on Tue, 13 April 2010, 11:44:44
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I ran across this thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=7153) a couple weeks ago and took the plunge, ordering 20 each of their red and blue blank Cherry MX-compatible keycaps from SMC Electronics (http://www.smcelectronics.com/swkey.htm).
They arrived this weekend, and I finally put them on my Ricercar SPOS board at work today. I've previously replaced as many keys as possible with doubleshots from a G81-8000HBAUS.
All that was left was the annoying blank relegendable keycaps on the top row and the PrtScr key.
I'm pretty happy with the result, and these shorter keycaps look a lot better than I expected.
(http://www.mrbill.net/gh/keyboard-cropped.jpg)
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Interesting...another confirmation that MEI switches/keycaps are Cherry MX-interchangeable.
(the keys from this supplier are intended for their MEI-equipped keypads)
The blue looks good on that board for sure.
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Those low profile caps would be a perfect height match for the key caps on a low profile Cherry brown 11802 or Cherry black 11900.
With blue caps, you need to swap in blue LEDs now.