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
The keyboard itself is great as a daily driver; super smart function layer out-of-the-box, dipswitches hit the right features for me, significantly cheaper than the Pok3r, but I cannot recommend this with Gateron switches based on my experience with them.
If you're buying this to plug/unplug a lot and use it as a portable solution, consider affixing it to the PCB with something like hot glue or epoxy, it's only held onto the board by solder (granted, at some fixed support points as well as the traces).