SA in 2024: Where does the high-profile king stand in the modern keyboard hobby?
In early 2021, I only had eyes for SA Godspeed. Raised in Florida across the bay from Cape Canaveral, I grew up watching space shuttle launches, and my dad’s life-long obsession with NASA, space and sci-fi quickly spread to me. At 27, I was introduced to Neil Armstrong, a personal hero, and was able to tell him the impact he had on me and my family. So on that fateful spring day when I walked into my IT department and told my coworkers that I was thinking of getting into mechanical keyboards, the first set I wanted to own was Godspeed. It took awhile, and I mean awhile for me to accumulate all the different versions of that set. It has three alphas (Solar, Lunar and Supernova), a few full alternates (Mito & Genespeed) and several alternate modifier sets including the transcendent Ares colorway. But several hundred dollars, and many months later, I had constructed a few keyboards all equipped with different versions of SA Godspeed. I made an Earth keyboard, a Mars, an Asteroid, a...
Feb 21, 2024
What is in Your Package?
Here are the components you should have if you made your purchase through Drop’s Mech Keys Builder. Keyboard:
How to Install Switches?
Here are the steps for your switch installation. Step 1 Position the Switch Correctly:
How to Install Keycaps?
Here are the steps for your keycap installation. Step 1 Positioning the Keycaps: You will likely receive copies of the same keycap in different sizes (for example: multiple shift keycaps). You will need to look at your keycaps to identify the differences in length and profile for the correct position. Difference in Length: