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Offline nubbinator

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Hall Effect Keyboard?
« on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 19:33:24 »
I was watching this on eBay and wondered who got it.







It looks Hall Effect to me and didn't go for too bad of a price.
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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 20:22:52 »
Cool. Man they don't make them like that any more (figuratively and literally).
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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 20:38:40 »
Yeah, dorkvader put a bid in, but HaaTa’s nemesis b***a got it.
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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 20:42:55 »
I just noticed the space bar has space written on it.  I love it.
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Offline Firebolt1914

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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 20:59:40 »
I like my plain black/white caps better :'(
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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 21:36:48 »
Quote from: jacobolus on Wed, 11 March 2015, 20:38:40
Yeah, dorkvader put a bid in, but HaaTa�s nemesis b***a got it.

sometimes he's my nemesis also

Quote from: nubbinator on Wed, 11 March 2015, 20:42:55
I just noticed the space bar has space written on it.  I love it.

pretty much the main reason I wanted it. Earliest known doubleshot spacebar from microswitch. Would also be my oldest HE board by a few months.
Quote from: Firebolt1914 on Wed, 11 March 2015, 20:59:40
I like my plain black/white caps better :'(

I prefer blank POM but we can't get everything in Hall effect (yet). SP has HE moulds but I doubt there'd be enough people to justify a GB
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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 22:10:30 »
Damn, that thing is cool as hell
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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 22:12:58 »
I need an HE board bad...I'm still sad I missed out on the HE num pad that Haata was selling.
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Offline jacobolus

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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 22:54:19 »
If dorkvader hadn’t wanted it, I was going to put a bid in, because the hotel reservation keycaps are sweet, everything looks to be in great condition, and there are enough nice 1.5–2u blanks that the board is a perfect source for building a custom-layout HE board with. I suspect that b***a bid higher than any of us would really want to go though.
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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 22:59:00 »
By the way, nubbinator (and everyone else), you should rehost images somewhere they’ll stick around, instead of just hotlinking from ebay auctions, so if anyone finds this discussion later in a google search the images won’t just be blank:
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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 11 March 2015, 23:26:11 »
Quote from: CPTBadAss on Wed, 11 March 2015, 22:12:58
I need an HE board bad...I'm still sad I missed out on the HE num pad that Haata was selling.

that reminds me: I need  to wire mine to a teensy  and start using it.

Anyway, jacobolus is rightt: this is an almost-ideal board to convert: the spacebar row has extra switch locations  for you to move switches to (not all do) and it comes with lots of extra keycaps to put there. There's even arrowkeys and a tenkey. I would probably have added a function row from  my spares and made it into very close to a standard 104 layout. It even comes with the "better" (imo) spacebar profile. I shoulda bid higher and made b***a pay ohwell maybe next time. There are other targets for conversion.

Let's hope B***A does something useful with it. or at least post pictures. (that was a joke, haha fat chance)
« Last Edit: Wed, 11 March 2015, 23:28:46 by dorkvader »
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Offline Bludude4

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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 12 March 2015, 04:17:32 »
Don't worry, Dork, as soon as I get those HE boards from my grandpa, HaaTa can convert them and he'll take a boatload of pictures.  :D
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Offline Bludude4

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Re: Hall Effect Keyboard?
« Reply #12 on: Thu, 12 March 2015, 04:21:49 »
Who's b***a?
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