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
I took a rubbish spacebar of mine and hacked the ends off a bit with my soldering angle-snips, and have no gaps on any of these keys, it's just the spacebar is ugly until the proper one gets here.
Now in relation to Aoli, I'm not sure what issue is happening there, unless it was a pre-assembled board. The Cherry MX PCB mount holes were extremely tight, and took a lot of effort to get pushed into place by comparison of the Dox, but nothing was crooked. I'm not sure how one would get a switch into the board if it were crooked, the holes are pretty precise. In my assembly I started by placing the keys into the four corners, soldering, then adding 4 more towards the middle to make squares, soldering, and then I filled the board out slowly ensuring all plate latches popped out as I went, and soldered those.
Now that we've had a proper, email, communication, I'm sure we'll all get sorted, but boy, this one has been a wait.
"Hey there, the tooling came out well so we have replacement spacebars on order. We are expecting them to come in at the end of October. I'll keep everyone updated as soon as they arrive!" Ref: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/infinity-keyboard-kit/talk/1819932
I personally will be checking back mid to late November if we have not heard anything by then.