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
1. Like many people have already chimed in, the stabilisers are wonky. It's not enough to detract the experience for me, but it's enough that I notice it if I am doing just pure typing. I'm not going to nitpick the definition of "Cherry Stabilisers" because I know the futility of arguing marketing terms, so I immediately ordered new stabilisers and call it a day.
2. I jumped at this drop because the switches are modular, so the first thing I did was to swap out the switches. My alphanumerics are Kaihua Bronze (which wasn't offered in the drop because their light column is a little different). My modifier keys are the original silver which I thought it was a good excuse to try out linear switches for once. The entire experience requires both hard work and care. You have to really squeeze the switch removal tool to easily pull out the switches because the tool itself is so wide. If you don't have a good grip on it, you run the risk of fumbling the switch or scratching the aluminum with the tool. The other pain was putting the switches into the sockets. You have to press down really hard, but make sure you align the switches properly or you will bend the pins (I did so to 2 of them). By the end of it, my fingers were pretty worn out, but that's the price to pay for switches you can swap out.
3. The instructions for setting up the K-Type are easy enough. The issue comes with trying to program it. I have have no experience with this software before so I am trying to figure out how to do things like static key backlighting, fingerprint light, and rainbow underlighting all at once. It becomes a pain when you have to keep flipping the keyboard over and use a pin to change the K-Type to flash mode.
4. Does anyone feel the LED hues are a bit off? I also have other LED's which I set to purple, but the purple (using the same RGB setting as my other peripherals) that I set for the K-Type comes out more pinkish. I had to set it to a darker purple for it to come out the lighter shade that I want. That meant redoing and flashing the keyboard several times, which I stress again, is a pain.
Aside from that, the build quality is great and there were no defects I could see. I wish they didn't have to send us generic USB-C cables, but luckily I had a braided one long enough for my use.
Also, you can import your old code into the configurator so you don't have to keep redoing everything from scratch
Thanks!