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Offline m4ge123

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Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« on: Tue, 08 January 2013, 11:24:33 »
I'm trying to find some square keycaps (like http://stenografia.pl/stenotypia/button-caps-theory.png), single and 2x tall. I googled around for a few hours and couldn't really find anything. I plan to make a custom PCB with 22 Cherry MX blue switches in the standard steno layout (http://www.spurgerreporting.com/keyboard.gif). Has anyone seen any keycaps at all like this?
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Offline precarious

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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 08 January 2013, 11:37:51 »
there are some 2x1 relegendable POS keys, and some that a lot of people may have picked up in  the recent SP crap bag sale, those might suit your needs
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Offline IvanIvanovich

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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 08 January 2013, 13:56:22 »
These are probably the most 'square' flat keys for MX compatible you are likely to find.
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Offline TotalChaos

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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 09 January 2013, 02:32:43 »
Quote from: m4ge123 on Tue, 08 January 2013, 11:24:33
I'm trying to find some square keycaps (like http://stenografia.pl/stenotypia/button-caps-theory.png), single and 2x tall. I googled around for a few hours and couldn't really find anything. I plan to make a custom PCB with 22 Cherry MX blue switches in the standard steno layout (http://www.spurgerreporting.com/keyboard.gif). Has anyone seen any keycaps at all like this?
I am writing this to permanently remind myself that this is most useful msg I have ever read about keycaps!  You just completely blew my mind!
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Offline dorkvader

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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 01 February 2013, 23:05:32 »
http://www.pimpmykeyboard.com/marketplace.php

These are available now from sp.
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Offline clickclack123

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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 13 January 2014, 03:11:45 »
Quote from: m4ge123 on Tue, 08 January 2013, 11:24:33
I'm trying to find some square keycaps (like http://stenografia.pl/stenotypia/button-caps-theory.png), single and 2x tall. I googled around for a few hours and couldn't really find anything. I plan to make a custom PCB with 22 Cherry MX blue switches in the standard steno layout (http://www.spurgerreporting.com/keyboard.gif). Has anyone seen any keycaps at all like this?

That stenografia link didn't work for me. Sp has flat caps for $2 each at the link dorkvader posted.

BTW i'd probably be interested in a pcb for a steno board as well. Are you planning to use Plover?
« Last Edit: Mon, 13 January 2014, 03:18:18 by clickclack123 »
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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 13 January 2014, 03:20:47 »
What's with all the thread necros recently?
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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 13 January 2014, 03:50:31 »
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Offline clickclack123

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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #8 on: Mon, 13 January 2014, 17:34:44 »
Quote from: m4ge123 on Tue, 08 January 2013, 11:24:33
I'm trying to find some square keycaps (like http://stenografia.pl/stenotypia/button-caps-theory.png), single and 2x tall.

Does anyone have a copy of this image? I've seen it mentioned a couple of times on steno pages and I'm curious about what it contains. I guess it's a picture of a square keycap.
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Offline TotalChaos

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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 31 July 2014, 20:38:43 »
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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 31 July 2014, 22:44:35 »
Quote from: TotalChaos on Thu, 31 July 2014, 20:38:43
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 13 January 2014, 03:50:31
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52900.0
Link is broken.

Link was nearly 7 months ago - probably to one of the boards that has been deleted.  Not much I can do about it :(
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"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

NEC APC-H4100E | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED red | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED green | Link 900243-08 | CM QFR MX black | KeyCool 87 white MX reds | HHKB 2 Pro | Model M 02-Mar-1993 | Model M 29-Nov-1995 | CM Trigger (broken) | CM QFS MX green | Ducky DK9087 Shine 3 TKL Yellow Edition MX black | Lexmark SSK 21-Apr-1994 | IBM SSK 13-Oct-1987 | CODE TKL MX clear | Model M 122 01-Jun-1988

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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 31 July 2014, 23:04:37 »
You just necro'd a thread when the last thing people were talking about were necro'd threads.
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Offline TotalChaos

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Re: Looking for square cherry mx keycaps
« Reply #12 on: Fri, 01 August 2014, 06:32:12 »
Quote from: Firebolt1914 on Thu, 31 July 2014, 23:04:37
You just necro'd a thread when the last thing people were talking about were necro'd threads.
I'm a 45th level Necromancer.  I have Resurrection, Raise Dead, Summon Necromancer, Zombie and numerous other Necromancy spells in my spellbook.  :p

There is another guy in a current thread who is trying to manufacture square cherry mx keycaps and he would be interested to see this thread.
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