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
The quality of the key switches they used is pitiful . I started having key contact problem with 1 switch after a month, have to unsolder it and swap with another key in one of those almost never used position. The next month is 2 more keys. And the 3rd month... you can guess the rest. Stopped using it 6months ago and brought it out today just for a test. Half the keys are poor contact now and most of the rest are sticky.
This thing is going into the trash bin. And that was with the Cherry keys. I don't have problem with my Ducky keyboard so if they are using "Cherry" keys, it must be from the reject pile. And now a even cheaper key and a more expansive price? Good luck to anyone buying this.
And customer service is so simple, it just doesn't exist.
The problem with TECK is truly the firmware, not switches. It usually either doesn't register key strokes, or registers them multiple times. The latter was a problem with Noppoo Choc Mini as well, but it's happened on very few other keyboards (TE's claim about how it's a "bug" of Cherry MX switches is a lie). The real issue is a combination of switch debouncing rate and the rate at which firmware checks the keyboard matrix for key presses.