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
My first impressions: - Looks good so far, though some of the keys have a shine to it on the surface (no parcitular pattern here, every key has a different reflection). Not sure if that will fade, these are my first dye-sublimated caps. See pictures below.
- The homing keys are pretty difficult to find, but I might get used to it.
- The sound on my Novatouch is the best I've had so far (compared to stock keycaps, thick pbt gradient keycaps, cheap tai-hao keycaps, thick blank pbt keycaps from aliexpress). Even the spacebar creates a fairly deep sound.
- The colors are pretty much what I expected, I like them. The orange on the bauhaus set does pop more than the blue green and red, and as explained by Miito they weren't initially created to fit in with those.
- My backspace key is crooked. Not sure if that's the key itself or my Novatouch to blame, will investigate further.
I will just drop tons of pictures in here as I'm sure people who are waiting can't get enough samples of what to expect. Notice the shine pattern on the left orange shift key, and it not being uniform across all keys.
The pictures are under different lighting conditions. Some are taken with sunlight, some with direct artificial light, and some with indirect artificial light.
Sunlight
Crooked backspace key
Different shine patterns, artificial overhead lighting
Bauhaus set installed, artificial direct lighting
Artificial indirect lighting
Profile shot
Overall I rate the caps a solid 9/10, and the fulfillment with delays a 4/10. Not sure if a 15$ discount makes up for it. But in the end I'd rather have nice keycaps and wait a couple of months, than have crappy keycaps within 2 months, given that I already payed the hefty price for them.
I can't wait to get my hands on the bauhaus icon set!
My jury is still out on what I will do with these anyway. I like the texture and font a lot but I'm not sure I like typing with them (kinda critical). It probably has more to do with the height of my desk than anything but the num row on my Pok3r seems far away.
I also just got a set of SA 1965 and those feel like they jump up to meet my fingers but are a lot louder and don't have any texture.
Nice problems to have though. :)