Kinesis Cherry Blue Mod

[skryl]

I'm sure this has been done before but I thought I'd share my experience converting a Kinesis Advantage to Cherry Blues.

http://thoughts.skryl.org/post/60613686455/the-kinesis-conversion

[mikelanding]

Good stuff. Didn’t know the PCBs and Plastic support was that cheap!

[gnubag]

68 new Cherry Blue switches - This is the most expensive part of the swap. Unless you can get a better deal, these run around $1 per switch.

uh...
if you buy a new keyboard (razer blackwidow/qfr) and desolder them, you are probably getting them for cheaper. just for next time... also if you buy them directly from 7bit they are cheaper.

[skryl]

68 new Cherry Blue switches - This is the most expensive part of the swap. Unless you can get a better deal, these run around $1 per switch.

uh...
if you buy a new keyboard (razer blackwidow/qfr) and desolder them, you are probably getting them for cheaper. just for next time... also if you buy them directly from 7bit they are cheaper.

I actually harvested mine, like you said, just thought I'd mention the market price.

[AndyCapets]

Looking good, I really am sceptical about the ergonomics, but good stuff.