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Ducky Shine 3 review! Awesome! Wait a minute…

Muirium wrote:Ducky Shine 3 review! Awesome! Wait a minute…

Hey Hey, I never said Shine III!
I wish I had one though (I think)

The design on the space-bar is a bit flashy/not my style, but oh man I love the changes that they made to reactive typing mod, so the LEDs actually stay lit for a few milliseconds after you let go of the key, it looks so much better that way! Overall though I don't know of any major changes/differnces between the Shine II and III.

Delayed lighting sounds interesting. I might implement it in one of my customs. You're right about the dodgy spacebar. Ducky Nordic's trying to talk them out of it for his version. Seems like everyone wants to tell you to Enjoy Your Feeling these days.

Muirium wrote:Delayed lighting sounds interesting. I might implement it in one of my customs.

Going slightly off-topic here, sorry.
If lighting isn't delayed, you could simply use the LED as the switch's anti-ghosting diode, couldn't you? With delay, you will have to target each LED specifically using a special LED driver.
I think that it would be cool if the light could not just wait before it switches off, but slowly fade out, but I suppose that that could be a bit difficult to do. I don't know if there is a LED driver that would support that.

Findecanor wrote:.. but slowly fade out, but I suppose that that could be a bit difficult to do. I don't know if there is a LED driver that would support that.

From the preview that's exactly what the shine 3 does.. that mode could just be bearable.
Curious to what you have in store there Muirium.

Now on to the review.

Edit: ugh, what kinda discount did you get for the video (hope you got one)?
Please don't flip a keyboard on it's caps onto a hard surface, abs caps will get dented corners from that.

I'm going to be hand wiring one of these entirely custom beauties fairly soon.


Not mine! But Matteo's cutting metal for me, too. One layer for the plate — naturally you have to plate mount when there is no PCB — and a handful more for the case.

The wiring goes something like this:

Diodes all the way down.

Cherry MX switches have space for an LED to snuggle in with them, so you get natural backlight capability with them anyway. While I'm putting this keyboard together I'll get a good idea of what changes, if any, are required to hook up a whole separate matrix for lights, too. I doubt I can do it with my first, but custom keyboards are addictive and it could well be in my second.

A separate matrix for lighting means I can address every LED individually from the controller. So you can expect individual "cooling" like it sounds the Ducky Shine 3 does. All without bothering the host computer, or needing drivers. I'm thinking of a heat map mode where each key shines when pressed, but fades to a gentle background state dependent on how much use it's getting. Playing games would slowly light up your movement cluster, for instance, while writing like I do would get backspace glowing pretty nicely!

One actually useful lighting mode would be to highlight the arrow keys on my 60%'s layers. I'm going for ESDF but might want to switch to IJKL or what have you. Lights can really assist function-layer-crazy memory.

Anyway, I'll look into it.

^Hijack much :'( <3
Bumps!

Yes, all the time. Welcome back, necromancer!

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Why bother to bump a review..?* I don't get it. I'd understand if it was a WTB/sale thread...

(* I understand that I'm now bumping it)

To pump his YouTube views? Who knows. All I can tell is that as 100% of his posts are in this one thread, he's not exactly into Deskthority for anything else.