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Try compressed air cans and see if that helps

nah i'm pretty sure it's goo that got into the edges of the little plastic things with the cross that you push the key caps onto... i gotta stop eating at my desk...

the spare will be disassembled and the switches all will be soaked in alcohol for a few days and i have been meaning to do some slightly more advanced programming of the keyboard firmware... it's just quite a bit of extra stuff to learn, probably will be a day's work at least

currently, the keyboard has three layouts, the cyrillic depends on me switching manually to russian layout to work and it's clunky, there is a way to make the keyboard emit combination codes - have to be separately programmed for mac, linux and windows - that mean i don't have to change the keyboard layout... and there's some other more fancy bits of programming i have in mind...

anyhow, here is the new one:

still gotta try and figure out why some of the keys are getting sticked... starting to suspect a dodgy USB cable tbh

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Bitcoin Sikho 1y ago

Yup, needs some alcohol rub and proper clean.

I remember back back in the days there used to be plastic skins/cover for keyboards to keep dust out, maybe you need that 😁

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

actually, it is dodgy cables... the neat elbow jointed cable... it's obviously pretty low grade, it was not helping either, i tested it independently and it still did it... but the biggest offender was an extension cable, ugreen brand, that was straight up disconnecting sometimes for a while, i'm gonna have to get some better quality cables, but for now i've got adequate cables in place

these cherry keys and key caps are basically mostly invulnerable to all except having actual beer or coffee spilled on them, absurdly robust hardware, really nice stuff, so good you can assemble them yourself

if you haven't got yourself a DIY kit for a mech keyboard - you really should, these things are like adult versions of lego

Bitcoin Sikho 1y ago

Thanks will definitely check them out

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

just added the final finishing touch to this one - now that i've cleared out the real cause of the problem i was having (dodgy cables) - double silicone noise dampers, now these keys are almost silent when i type on them

cherry switches basically last forever, unless you soak them in beer or coffee... i can't reccommend enough getting them... but do be careful with choosing which kind of switches though - you want ones with 45nm actuation force (this is the springs) unless you don't care to ever learn to touch type

personally, i would like to get even lighter springs on these, they are cherry silver, which actuates about 1mm down, takes a bit to get used to not touching them cos you almost barely have to push to get a signal...

cherry now makes a much lower profile, about half height, cherry silver key for gaming laptops... man... one of these days, i'm gonna fab myself a custom board and cover it in these thin keys

honestly, i've been touch typing since i was 14 and the longer you do it the less you want to have to push hard on the keys... at first it's a novelty but after you have spewed a million words or more it gets really old the amount of muscle strain it causes

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