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I feel that!

Thank you! All the originals are so damn expensive. I like these even though they are clones.

I threw my wallet away after getting it. Now i wont have to worry about it.

For sure! Supporting the cause 🫡

Welcome to the club! Just hide your wallet!!!

Thank you! Hope it helps convert some people to Ortho and 40%s as well!

Love it! Can't wait to build my frog mini

the most up-to-date theory that i am personally aware of is that total mass is the leading factor in a keycap's effect on sound pitch.

Neat boards and nice write-up of your key map!

Oh, of course. I have a hhkb that I use quite often. I was just wondering what sounded like topre though because I hadn't come across anything so far.

I mean, you could just buy a topre

Looks great!

I love the samurai colour ways.

i'm definitely on step 2

did a holee mod but had to do some shoddy soldering (60% non-hotswap) and killed the backspace, pipe/backslash and enter keys

i'm super satisfied with the stabs now except they don't work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll take one of each please! Love my Preonic to death though I'd gladly take that bottom one off your hands if it was ever for sale...

Real question is if preonics are 50s ore 60s. All of these have 59 keycaps but if you're using all 1u caps then it has 60

I can't speak the actual material science behind both plastics, but generally PBT is know of a deeper sound, aka "thocc" and ABS higher pitched, aka "clack"

AFAIK (but some one please correct me if I'm wrong) PBT has a higher melting point but the material is still more malleable when solid so it resonates with lower pitches more; ABS on the other hand has a lower melting point but more brittle, hence the resonance with higher pitches

For all factors (but not definitive) aspects of a keyboard that could effect sound, [here's a link]!(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15XmznA5T9d4PkfBG0TDS82ou6ihBh0oqr8Aux24SNz0/edit#gid=1460450169)

Big brains use built in virtual keyboards. Thats the end game . Lmao jk

They get smaller the further down the rabbit hole you get lol.

Man y’all got some reaaaaallly interesting keyboards lmao

I just looked into it and from different sources I get different information. I'll dig a little more into it and rework that section to be more factual. The way I wrote it might be misleading.

Thanks for your feedback :)

MiniVan with 78g Zilents up top, Preonic with Gateron Yellows at bottom.

Having found the perfect keymap that worked for me with my MiniVan, jumping to Ortho was much, much easier than going to a 40% from a larger keyboard.

Despite the Preonic having one extra row I've kept my layout largely the same from the MiniVan.

F-key row is RSPACEBAR+ZXCVB row (F1) with UpArrow, Forward Slash and Colon as F10, F11 and F12 respectively.

Numbers are RSPACEBAR+ASDF (1-0)

Shifted symbols are on RSPACEBAR+QWERTY (Q=!, W=@, etc)

I went with two 2U spacebars as I find it more comfortable to use that way. Left SPACEBAR is just a regular spacebar, right SPACEBAR is Tap-Mod and doubles as a FN-key/layer toggle.

The first mod to the right of RSPACEBAR is a layer toggle for an embedded Numpad layer under QWE/ASD/ZXC with the surrounding keys mirroring a Numpad.

FWD SLASH uses Tap Dance so it's Backslash when tapped twice. The COLON is my ENTER key, CAPSLOCK+ENTER is SEMICOLON. The TILDE/BACKTICK key is UNDERSCORE and TILDE when double tapped (I spend a lot of time in the Terminal and Linux in general).

CAPSLOCK+Q/E is Home/End, CAPSLOCK+T/G is PgUp/PgDn, CAPSLOCK+Y/H/M is VolUp/VolDn/Mute

I write a lot of code so CAPSLOCK+U/I/J/K/M/, are the paired braces {} respectively with CAPSLOCK+O/P/L/' are _+-=

I switch the default layout back and forth when I'm on my mac and when I'm in Windows/Linux.

The only thing different is that I use Home Row mods on mac OS and the modifiers as swapped over. Also Home/End on the Mac I have it mapped to COMMAND+LEFTARROW/RIGHTARROW since that's how it is on the mac and I have LSPACE+ESC is COMMAND+BACKTICK so I can swap open windows quickly.

Thank you! Me too!

I could be wrong, but the acoustic different between ABS & PBT should be flipped