Mechanical Keyboard Sound Isn't That Simple
Figure 1: I couldn't think of a more literal way to represent this article if I tried... Looking back just a few years ago, there’s no doubt that the huge influx of people that joined the hobby at the peak of the COVID pandemic were drawn to keyboards by way of YouTube, TikTok, and other audio-visual content platforms. Even as the output from these content creators has waned in recent months, their collective impact and legacy on the keyboard hobby is rather firmly etched in the history books. As a result of all of their sound tests, build logs, and opinion videos, the message is clear to any new person joining the hobby: mechanical keyboards are all about the sound. Thock this, clack that. Whether it’s keyboards, keycaps, or even singular switches, seemingly everyone new to the hobby meticulously pores over each component of their keyboard not in an attempt to figure out how it will feel in hand, but how it will sound as they’re furiously grinding their way out from...
Mar 27, 2024
While you showed you love toward the Forbidden Realms artifact series, we thought that it’s unjust for you if we keep holding the thoughts of making an artifact series of Forbidden Realm in the enter keycap in our heads forever, and you’d never see them. No. We couldn’t stand that. Then we had made an extension view of the forbidden realms – Seasons in the Enter artifact series – The Ethereal Reign.
Ethereal Reign is mostly made of wood layers, piled on top of each other to create the effect of a miniature highland topography inner side of an SA profile enter keycap. We had made a far advance of skill and aesthetic aspect in this series, four options in this design are the incarnations of four seasons which each of them was carried out with meticulousness by details.
When all these steps finish, the whole artifact would be put into the mould and we cast them with a high-quality resin so that it would bring the excellent transparent effect for the entire keycap. We need to keep eyes on this step pretty strict unless the sight would be a inclined subject, it wouldn’t stay at the exact horizon line of the enter cap, the rate of getting incline making this sort of artifact series is much more than a 1u cap. We’ve got heart pain sometimes when hearing one of the prototypes got in that trouble. The amounts of time and toughness of each step making enter cap artifact equal to five times of making a 1u cap artifact keycap. But the result elated us much more than that.