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Offline v193r

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Orange Cherries?
« on: Wed, 02 February 2011, 20:49:39 »
I saw this pic in Manyak's Guide:

Are my eyes deceiving me?

Offline Brian8bit

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« Reply #1 on: Wed, 02 February 2011, 20:51:12 »
Nope. There are many colours of Cherry's which denote actuation force and tactility. Blue, brown, black, red, clear, orange, green are the ones I know. There's probably more.

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« Reply #2 on: Wed, 02 February 2011, 21:02:18 »
I want to make a custom "keyboardlover" keyboard, consisting of green, clear and red cherries. =)

Offline v193r

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« Reply #3 on: Wed, 02 February 2011, 21:06:13 »
ive never heard of them.
info plz. are they tactile and what is the force required? pics plz.

Offline morcles

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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 03 February 2011, 00:56:45 »
Check this thread, start at post 8.
« Last Edit: Thu, 03 February 2011, 00:59:25 by morcles »
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Offline sixty

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 03 February 2011, 01:00:33 »
As far as I know the oranges are identical to black in feel, just with a smaller keystem.

Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 03 February 2011, 06:46:46 »
The pic in the OP looks like a brown taken with poor color accuracy.


Offline Phaedrus2129

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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 03 February 2011, 16:15:26 »
Quote from: itlnstln;289231
The pic in the OP looks like a brown taken with poor color accuracy.


No, look at the shape of the keystem, it's not a normal Cherry.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #8 on: Fri, 04 February 2011, 09:12:35 »
F' shizz.  I didn't catch that.