Desoldering, Mill-Maxing, And Why You Might Want To Learn Both
Thanks to StoryboardTech’s fantastic article, you finally learned how to solder! Or at least, you’re committed to learning. So, what’s next? Well, if you’re brave enough, why not learn how to desolder as well? And when you feel confident with that, how about Mill-Max? You don’t necessarily have to know or learn how to solder before learning how to desolder or Mill-max, but in my opinion, getting comfortable with soldering is a great step towards learning how to do the other two, and if you know how to solder, you can practice desoldering and mill-maxing to your heart’s content since you’ll already have the tools from learning how to solder! Well, at least most of the tools. Let’s start off with the good ol’ disclaimer section first, however. Disclaimer These are my own opinions and my own thoughts, and if I’ve learned anything in life, it’s that we all do things in slightly different ways. Whether it be deadlifting, desoldering, Mill-Maxing or even baking...
Jan 13, 2025
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.