Keyboard Number 3

It started as a rebuild

Okay I really didn’t mean to make a third keyboard I Swear. I built a knock-around keeb because the first one was too heavy and extra, and I ended up liking the knock-around better. So I thought I’d just order the parts to replace the keeb and keep the case of the first one.
Well I got a new KBDFans pcb and a plate and quickly found out that they had released a whole new design including their kbd-lite system. After a lot of confusion, I somehow ended up with all new parts x.x

First we lube the switches

Felt like walking through each step, first things first we gotta crack open all the switches like de-seeding cherries

Then use a tiny paint brush to put lube on all of the switch parts so they move all smooth and don’t sound too scratchy

Woah those pictures came out really big. Wish wordpress had a way to shrink em down a bit in a gallery. I’ll fix that later. But now all the switches are lubed and happy 😀

After this it’s time to solder everything together! Ha Ha.

Just kidding, although I did completely forget that the stabalizers go on now and soldered everything together x.x So I promptly desoldered everything (this is my second experience now) and Started over. So we can put some stabalizers on the PCB and switches in the plate. And even take pictures while we’re at it!

I had never heard of a gasket mount case before, which is partially why I ended up in this mess in the first place. It’s also why I got a polycarbonate plate, which was a little unexpected. But it all fits together pretty nicely with a cool silicone layer in between the plate and PCB. The PCB in this case was not made for the case system, so it’ll actually be the soldering that holds everything together before it goes into the fancy gasket case.

And that’s about all she wrote, laid into the case, screwed down tight, and put some keys on. The sound wasn’t really what I was anticipating. But it’s growing on me and it is very pretty nonetheless 😀