Need some advice here.
I'm seriously considering picking up a second hand hhkb pro 2, swapping the slides for mx compatible ones, and getting in on this drop.
It looks like with the alphas+mods+SDK kit, I'll have all the correct key sizes (excluding 6u spacebar..), but can anyone advise me on whether the stabilised keys on the mods kit will end up causing problems (because of the lack of stabilisers on the hhkb switch housing)?
Assume you're using hhkb ANSI layout rather than the JP layout. There are solutions for the 2.25u keys(left shift, right enter), if MX sliders are used on hhkb.
1. Use normal 2.25u MX keycaps, drill holes on the hhkb top case to fit the MX 2.25u keycap stabilizer stems.
PROS: You could use whatever 2.25u MX keycap of whatever keycap set, change them if you want.
CONS: Unrecoverable injure to the hhkb top case.
2. Cut the stabilizer stems of these 2.25u keycaps, so that the stems will not hit the top case.
PROS: no injure to the hhkb keyboard.
CONS: unrecoverable injure to whatever 2.25u keycaps you use. You couldn't change keycap set on hhkb easily.
Check it out if you like to take a look to the "hole drilling" solution, and what could be done to the topre spacebar.
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/capatoa-keycap-explosion/talk/1663314
You can find the final iteration of the kits here: https://oblotzky.github.io/sa-oblivion/ - this is what is going ahead for the GB that is expected to drop in September. I'm now working on more keyboard renders for the Massdrop and project page.
If custom keycaps are very dear to you, I recommend looking into switching to US ANSI layout and using EurKey to keep your Spanish characters https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/layout.html
Spanish layout support is almost non-existent in the world of custom keysets.
I switched to ANSI US International a while back because of this and had to switch back, I know that there are available all the needed punctuations on the layout, but as a computer technician I use almost everyday diferent keyboards with diferent sizes and forms, from diferent computers that are not mine and all of them have spanish keyboards, the muscular memory you develop when using keyboards is very important to me, to work as fast as I can. When I switched to US ANSI I made a lot of mistakes when writing on other keyboards and in mine too because of this. I use an ergodox at home, and I have it almost maped exactly like a regular keyboard in spanish with permanent marker.
Thanks for your advice but for work I need to use the spanish layout, like it or not. -_-U
I think that the last option will be to make an spanish keyset and promote it on all the spanish communities around the world, hoping to get the enough interested people to make a custom drop.
Anyways nothing that can be done soon.
Thank you Oblotzky for designing this great set!
I specially want to make you know that some friends and I are really happy to finally see an excellent SA kit that includes spanish on the ISO kit. There will be some buys from here ^^
Alphas should be ~6-8$ higher than Carbon's due to the inclusion of the spacebar and function row keys. The git modifiers, I'm not quite sure. The amount of keys is roughly the same, but mine uses custom legends. The tooling costs for those is roughly 800$ total, so at MOQ 100 that should translate to around 8$ more for that. But this is of course just napkin math, there are other factors that I might not be aware of and such.
Oh and also note that Carbon hit 1700+ units on Alphas and 1100+ on Modifiers, I wouldn't wager that this set will perform the same, so look towards the lower MOQ points in the Carbon spreadsheet.
Are the options here the final decision of what sets are offered? I prefer this oblivion specialties kit from the github website to the SDK kit in this poll. Did you eliminate it from the options?
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I like the R2 1.5 backspace with purple legend.
It would be super great if you can combine both sets (Oblivion Specialties and SDK) and have
R1 1u and R2 1.5u for both Backspace and Del? And also keep that R4 1u Del.
Oh nvm, I will just use the R3 1.25u MOV, or Pop in 40 bit kit
Thanks so much for listening! It's really cool to personally talk to the creator of the set :o
Glad you found the key you need! Although I'm sorry that you'll have to buy an entire kit for a single key, and due to all new legends in that kit I fear it will be in the 60$ range after a few drop points :/ it's not ment to be used to complete other builds, I expect people to only buy the 40bit kit together with alphas for ~100$ to cover their 40% keyboards.
The reason why I said I'd need to include ~4 more keys for XD60/XD64 is that if I were to add keys for that keyboard, it would be to cover all the possible layouts for it. Cherrypicking just one layout wouldn't be so useful. I hope you can understand that.
But how about this, you could use one of the bottom row 1.25u modifiers, which are all R3 too, in place of the Return key. Use only blue ones in the bottom row and then a orange/red CODE key for your Return (or PULL/FETCH if you want to go with Git legends). That way you should be covered with Alphas + Modifiers + Extension right? (Specialties has been renamed to Extension now)
And it's a pleasure :)
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