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
Overall - it's great.
At first I was a bit uncomfortable with the CMD being too far to the left compared to the Mac layout (where CMD is in line with the "x" key) but now I am comfortable typing on it.
I got a set of PBT keycaps from pimpmykeyboard but USPS of course messed all up and can't deliver it for a month already.
Here are the photos with replaced keycaps, I am using 3u spacebar for Mistel Barocco here. Maybe I will do a mod where the CMD is extended, but I'd have to modify a stem on the keycap for that, so, maybe, one day.
Is there a keycap that can replace the Alt key and be offset like that or would you have to get a 2u and cut it or something?
I had entirely given up on the spacebar situation, but hadn't considered a wider cmd key and a narrow spacebar. I too wish the cmd key were a bit rightward. Two birds with one stone!
So, stock is 1.25+3.5=4.75. I guess the idea would be to swap that with 1.75+3.0. I wonder if a 1.75 key with an off-center stem would be stable enough. Also do your spacebars have stabilizers?
Maybe a future rev of this board could just be designed this way to begin with. So close to standard key sizes!
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