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Great work strah on your custom 3d printed solenoid and soelnoid driver holder! https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4934026 Looks quite professional. I wonder if the plastic dampens the sound of the solenoid a little.


The plastic does indeed dampen the sound a little but I still like the sound ...

I designed a small 3D-printed holder/cage for the solenoid and driver to neatly mount it inside my F62. The entire cage is adhered to the case with double-sided tape and one side is held down through the thread and bolt of one of the feet. I also integrated a zip tie mount to fix the cables to the ...

Can't wait to see how the dark grey keycaps look with the dyesub legends

Ellipse wrote: Production finished on the keys!

Does that also include the dark grey keycaps or will they be produced at a later date?

darkcruix wrote: I wasn't aware that you can order it with a split left shift also. AFAIK, only the right shift can be split like the HHKB

Split left shift is standard with the ISO layout so I think it should be no problem to also include that with an ANSI layout as constexpr did

The 60% dark gray samples also arrived and are shown below. I think it's the best we can do to have a legible legend but please let me know what you think.


The 60% samples look really nice, I think that is the way to go for the dark gray set. Can you take a picture comparing the 60% samples to ...

I also like the 60% gray better, 80% has not enough contrast in regards to the legends and might make them unreadable instead of "stealthy"-looking

I recently bought a set of dark grey dye-sublimated keycaps from https://kbdfans.myshopify.com/collections/cherry-profile/products/black-dye-subbed-keycap-set and would be willing to send some of the numpad keycaps which I don't need directly to Ellipse so he could forward them to the factory for ...

The key-flipper assembler looks amazing, I'd love to see a short video of it in action!

It would probably be best if someone with a dark gray Realforce set could send Ellipse some spare keys for reference so he could maybe send them over to China for them to get the color right

Ellipse wrote: How dark should the dark gray key plastic be? Any recommendations?

I can't give you any specific color codes but as an inspiration, I think the color should be similar to the Carbon Black keyset sold by Originative

So, no chance for black on black? Lack of contrast is no biggie for me(barely legible is fine), i mostly type without looking but do occasionally glance on seldom used keys, so i'm a bit afraid to go with an all blank keyset, yet really dig black keys.

Ellipse will produce dark gray keycaps with ...

I have already ordered an extra set, one which I would like to keep, but I'd prefer to ditch the black blanks I originally ordered in favour of a set of BoB and, to be quite frank, I don't see why the hell I should not be able to do that. Especially considering that there is an option to bring yor ...

Is it possible to change my black blanks for a set of BoB?

Judging from the blog post about the dark gray caps , they are only available as extra sets - you can't replace your black unprinted set with the dark gray caps:

To keep the project on track and avoid extra assembly variations, these ...

Ellipse wrote: Feel free to order the HHKB set and add a note that you'd like dark gray printed keys.

I can't find the HHKB set as a listing in the online shop, can you provide a direct link to the HHKB set?

The HHKB is not included in the main set. It is an add on set. Below are the expected contents of the sets, courtesy of Zed who is designing them.

So do I understand you correctly that I could order $18 worth of the "$1 increments" and specify that I want the complete printed HHKB addon set in ...

Thanks for creating the thread, I'm definitely interested in 1 set. Do you have an idea how much such a set would cost if we reach 20 sets, would it be the same price as the other options (regular blank, regular printed, black blank) or much more expensive?

Wouldn't black dye subbed legends on black keycaps be completely invisible?

I think they wouldn't be completely invisible but just hardly readable, kind of a stealthy look. Gateron produces a set of black PBT dyesub keycaps with black legends and they are still readable with the right lighting ...

The new legend designs look absolutely great! Ellipse, would you consider doing a black on black dyesub keyset? At the moment, only blank black keycaps are available but I think black keycaps with black dyesub legends on them would be a really nice option.

The blue keycaps look very nice, is there an option to order a modifier kit of blue caps? I ordered my F62 with blank black keycaps and I think it would look great with some blue modifiers.

Wow the die-cast cases look really good, this is a perfect homage to the the original Kishsaver. Do they solely consist of zinc or is it an alloy with other metals?

Thank you Ellipse for posting all these timely status updates, it makes waiting for the board so much easier, knowing how professionally and meticulously these boards are being produced. I'm very confident this will be a phenomenal board, when it ships!

One thing i'm not really clear on though is what is the difference between the default layout ("ANSI Enter" from the dropdown list) and "HHKB-Style Split Right Shift and Split Backspace"? If the right shift is not split, then where would the function key go?

Since this board uses the xwhatsit ...

Will the blank black keycaps produced by the factory include the normal right shift? I'm asking because right now, the online shop still says "right shift key not included" but I guess that was for the Unicomp-sourced blank black keys. Will the new keycaps be made of PBT and will they be ...

Ellipse wrote: The rectangular hole is 7.5 mm wide. The original design had two rectangular holes (for air flow?) on the back, plus a hole for the cable.

Could you post a photo of the exact location of the rectangular hole on the F62? Thanks.

Hi there. I wanted to post my little modification project (mainly appearance) for some time but I didn't find the time until now. The idea was to take a standard model M (non lexmark, non industrial, just plain white) and create a more stealthy look. In watch terms, people often talk about "phantom ...

That youtube anti-shake fix makes it seem like some kind of 3D rendering at first, I think thats quite appropriate for this nice ergonomic concept. Quite a shame that it's rubber dome though..