Drop Mech Keys Meetup Recap - Thanks for Visiting!
As you may have seen, we just hosted our first meetup in quite a while here at Drop HQ (Corsair HQ, but they seem to like us enough :) )! It was a blast to get to meet so many enthusiasts local to the bay area—it had been 10 years since I was last hanging out with keyboard nerds in the bay, at KeyCon 2014. We had a great time hosting everyone at the offices, checking out all the very nice boards y'all brought, and sharing some of our own projects/spaces! I knew it would be fun to host in the Game Room when I first saw it in person, but seeing it come to fruition was still so cool. Alright, I'll stop blabbering on now. xD Picture time! (Oh, real quick - there will be more of these! Stay tuned for more info and to catch the next one!)
May 15, 2024
for anyone planning on buying this RGB model to mod in cherry switches/cherry clones i really don't recommend it. Cherry switchs (real ones) don't fit 4 pin LED's and have to be modded (can be done by de-liding and using a Dremel tool to remove material), and if you don't have a de-Soldering station its so F-ing hard to not ruin the pads on the LED solders. I ruined one of these boards that i tried to mod by doing it with a soldering pen and solder sucker, it was awful, bought a de-soldering station it was significantly less awful.
I've bought 3 of these boards, one of the Blue led ones, and two of the RGB, had no problems with any of them, I've only used the black switches, I've not used a real Cherry black, so i cant comment on that. Others below have said that the space bar feels mushy, i sort of agree, if your used to using a high end keyboard (i swapped from a full sized WASD Code with MX Greens) it will not feel nearly as good, but you do get used to it. The problem with it, is it just uses two stabilizers on the sides that don't have the tightest tolerance, so if you tap the space bar over the stabilizer rather than near the switch itself it will depress and not activate the switch (it doesn't have the metal bar between the stabilizers)
Note i couldn't get the software for this to work with Win10, but you don't need it to control the LED lighting modes (there's quite a few) it can be done with the FN+F8 keys, as well as brightness and color change( for single color mode) being tied to FN+arrow keys
i had been thinking about writing out a full review and/or a mod log for this board, if anyone would like to see that let me know i could find time to write it out and take pic's. if you have any questions you feel i might be able to answer feel free to reply to this
But the software is not English in case you didn't know.