A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
That said I'm probably still going to pick up Cyberdeck too, because I have absolutely no self control...
Would there be extra caps left unused in the Gaijin/Blocknet kits that I could use to cover some of the remaining keys?
You won't have enough keys with just Gaijin + Blocknet no matter how you spin it, unfortunately. You have two alternatives:
1. Buy the base on top of those 2 kits, which really is a great idea unless you're SUPER hard pressed for money because once you receive the set in a few month's time you'll be able to just take away the function keys you need for yourself and sell the reminder of the base for like a 60% profit on mechmarket.
2. Buy Mitowaves and use novelties in place of the function keys that you need to cover. This would be the best way to go about it if you're struggling to justify the cost at this very moment since those will probably end up setting you back like 40 bucks max instead of 110.