Let's talk Mechanical Keyboards

I honestly have no idea, I’m very new to this. You could try comparing pictures but idrk what it’s similar to. If this helps at all, it looks like the dip is basically part of a sphere with a tiny bit squared corners


Found this in the basement of my building; I think it came with a long gone atomic force microscope. It’s clicky. Reminds me of the Atari 800 I grew up with.

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Oh nice find!

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It finally came!!! I ordered this board back in April! Drop ALT (high profile), Kailh halo clears, SA Pulse:

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I love the feel of an ergo ortho, but ortho on a standard layout not so much.

@smileypants707 So clean! I feel like Pulse caps look good on just about anything

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Very nice! I love the SA PuLSE set. It was the first SA set I ever bought when I got into mech keyboards back in 2015.

How is the ALT? I’m not a fan of alternate layouts so I will probably never try one, but I am curious about the quality of Drop’s self-branded keyboards.

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Well, I literally just got it about an hour ago, so all I can offer is a first impression. I love it so far! It feels very solid, and it doesn’t have any rattly chatter. I clipped, lubed and band-aid modded the stabs, and also lubed the switches; so that probably helped with the noise. The keys sound so buttery :blush:

The layout will take a little getting use to, a few of the keys are a little smaller than normal. But it isn’t feeling like a huge hurdle or anything.

I was able to find a suitable (and cheap lol) solution for my far-right column too; I ordered some individual plain black SA caps from [Oh! keycaps].

That’s not a bad solution so long as you don’t need the legends to remind you what those keys are mapped to. I often use blanks over the numpad on 108 boards and it’s never a problem cuz I really never use those keys anyway.

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Halo Trues are a switch I’d like to try. I’ve been usi by Hako Royas in one of my boards and they are really good.

I tried Halo Trues and they felt a little stiff to me. My fingers got kinda tired after a while.

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All-black PuLSE. Interesting!

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Nice. Also helpful if a falling piano is about to crush you.

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Just got c3 tangerines filmed and lubed and ughhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhhhh

For some reason I love unreadable keysets. Part of is it because people who can’t touch type can’t use them and it’s funny to watch them try.

I joined the KAT Explosion GB and I’ll be hopping on the KAT Iron GB tomorrow. Only have to wait…many, many months…

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Getting used to blanks was fun.

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G20 Semiotic is unreadable but not undecipherable. :sunglasses:

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You should distance yourself from that keyboard immediately

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It came to me. My own. My love. My own. My precious!

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So I’m not gonna make one anymore, so do you guys have any cheaper recommendations that come prebuilt? I’m looking at the GMMK rn.