Drop Mech Keys Meetup Recap - Thanks for Visiting!
As you may have seen, we just hosted our first meetup in quite a while here at Drop HQ (Corsair HQ, but they seem to like us enough :) )! It was a blast to get to meet so many enthusiasts local to the bay area—it had been 10 years since I was last hanging out with keyboard nerds in the bay, at KeyCon 2014. We had a great time hosting everyone at the offices, checking out all the very nice boards y'all brought, and sharing some of our own projects/spaces! I knew it would be fun to host in the Game Room when I first saw it in person, but seeing it come to fruition was still so cool. Alright, I'll stop blabbering on now. xD Picture time! (Oh, real quick - there will be more of these! Stay tuned for more info and to catch the next one!)
May 15, 2024
Also KaminKev wasn't saying they offer custom LEDs. He was saying you could buy a POK3R and put in your own LEDs by yourself.
That people who wish to wait until late October may preorder Pok3rs with factory-installed LEDs that don't require customization or void warranties, but do include LED-related enhancements by Vortex, etc.
Also, KK's original post was phrased in such an open-ended way that it easily could be construed by readers as recommending Mechanical Keyboards as a customizing LED service. I didn't believe that that unintended inference was correct. I merely asked a question that (tactfully, I'd hoped) pointed out the fallacy of a harmless straw man.
If people want to add their own LEDs, that's their business. But to pose the option as a seeming rebuttal to useful information about forthcoming Pok3r options is unnecessarily confusing. Here's how I would have put it: "One alternative to buying a Pok3r with preinstalled LEDs is to install them yourself. You can buy the LEDs here [insert link to specific page]."
You could also easily go to Mechanical Keyboards and look it up yourself and see that it does, indeed, exist. I don't really understand why you're making such a thing out of this...
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1419
EDIT: Looks like the link won't go through (Massdrop's comment box automatically truncates the actual part of the items ID.).
Did you wonder (as I did) whether the low price might have been a mistake?
If you go on Mech. Keyboards site, you will see the white backlit ones on their Vortex Keyboards product page.