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
While this thing is constructed very well, the bezel is difficult to remove, which makes it nearly impossible to swap out the case. If y ou do take the effort to remove it, you will find that the plate extends down around the front and back of the PCB. It is a great, clean look, but if you want to swap out the case it is not possible with an off the shelf solution.
The LEDs are attached to the bottom of the switch, where as most backlit boards have the switched flipped upside down so that the LED is at the top. The reason I'm mentioning this is because it makes it significantly harder to find acceptable replacement caps since the legends must be on the bottom of the cap to shine through. If you aren't getting this for the niftyer backlight options (such as reactive mode) this may not totally matter to you.
While you can adjust certain settings and control things with the Ducky Advisor, this board is does not have a programable layer, like say, a Poker, nor does it have DIP switches (DIP switch functionality is part of the Ducky Advisor options).
This is a very well put together, great feeling board, but I thought the limitations should be listed for those who might be thinking of customization.