If you’re just soldering switches, any iron will work just fine.
If you’re buying a bare PCB and plan on soldering all the components onto it, you will definitely want a beveled tip.
Louis Rossmann explains why in this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F05DvDJ4roM&pp=ygUXbG91aXMgcm9zc21hbm4gcmVkIHBpbGw%3D
I just use debian for my ventoy. But all you really need is a proper partition manager.
You can use tailscale for that, it took literally 1 minute to set up for me and is completely free for use cases like this.
WASD needs three fingers to operate, a stick just has room for one. There’s also a reason why controllers have them set up for the thumbs at not for any other fingers.
I’d say it makes a lot more sense to put one in the thumb area and leave the WASD area alone.
Having it feel exactly how you want and being able to use something you built yourself is a big part of the mechanical keyboard community.
I can definitely see it for MIDI controllers, but a piano has that smooth press and satisfying bottom-out that I don’t think is possible to replicate easily. You also need to sense how hard the key is pressed and the only way keyboard switches could sense that is with something like hall effect and a polling rate that is high enough to detect how fast the key is pressed down.
Great work, looks like it could be a commercial product. I’m still not sure if I want choc V1 or V2, but if I go with V1, this might very well be the build I copy.
Is that you, bobby?
No one wants to admit it of course, but the people I talked to about it fit the pattern very well.
Those people usually choose politics over science.
On the political side, governments forced the vaccine on people by taking away freedoms if they didn’t get it and they often did that before there were enough vaccines for everyone.
As someone with Asthma (who should theoretically get some kind of priority), I spent two months illegally meeting with my friends because I couldn’t get a vaccine while the politicians who decided on the rules could have legal meetups because they were the first ones to get the vaccine.
And on the priority? My brother got prioritized as a high-risk patient and got his vaccine before I did. The reason? He’s slightly overweight.
Anyways, my point is that a lot of covid antivaxxers didn’t actually care if the vaccine was any good or bad, they just cared about the politics surrounding it. And I agree with you, picking science over politics always the right call.
Congratulations, you made the rabbit hole within the ergo rabbit hole within the keyboard rabbit hole.
Does it ever end?
Edit: Spelling
It’s a great little iron. Unfortunately it only comes with a pointy tip, which is fine for soldering switches directly to PCBs, but bad for everything else.
You’ll definitely want a flat tip for SMD stuff. Too fine and it won’t work with hotswap sockets, so I’d go with the gross pack. Or any TS100 tips, those fit the pinecil too.
It’s a rather small business. I bought two things from them and while they took a bit to ship, they arrived without issues.
The best place to contact them is - sigh - discord.
Please see my reply to that. I disagree and I think it comes down to hand position.
Interesting, I find that curling the index finger is the most comfortable way to reach any key that isn’t on the home row. I guess it comes down to how you have your hands positioned. I use a standard column staggered layout and have a wrist rest that sits about 1.5cm below the keys, what do you use?
Colemak mod-DH puts D and H right below the home row so they are easy to reach with your index fingers. I’d say that’s the most reasonable way to go about it without going full custom.
I honestly think that touch typing on QWERTY is a bad idea, those contortions you need to go fast will just give you RSI sooner or later.
I also learned touch typing with colemak mod-DH and that kind of works, but now I’m running into the fact that standard keyboards are very asymmetrical. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find a split board with an F row.
mod-DH is the best invention ever.
Can’t wait for it to be overrun by germans.
That’s the worst strawman I’ve read in quite a while. This is literally a public forum, no one thinks it’s private in any way.
Both full size, right?