My new – old – keyboard is working, and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing? It’s always nice to mend something, but I meant to gut it. To harvest its innings, its blue Alps-switches. Blue Alps are considered the crème de la crème of vintage switches, and I
Continue readingA waiting game
Except for the switch plates (and 70-odd diodes) everything is in the mail.
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I’m still waiting for the switch plates I’ve ordered, but a few interesting things arrived the other day. Something new, and something old. Zealios switches Let’s start with the new. I got a bag full of Zealios switches. These are tactile switches, made to high specs. Smooth, and with a
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The first part for the first endgame keyboard has been sent out for prototyping, and it’s the switch plate.
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