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
What about keycaps? I understand these are non-standard so I would want to be able to source them independently of the kit. I'll need to duplicate the function keys, or at least find a source of blanks. Anyone know of a good on-line shop were one can buy keyboard components individually? If not, seems like a good business opportunity for a keyboard enthusiast!
Incidentally, the ultimate plan is to make the function keys capacitive touch pads, possibly on the vertical left and right sides of the board.