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[-] roux@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I build custom mechanical keyboards. Got into it because of the Pandemic and now I have built 6 of them. /r/mk and /r/emk used to be some of my most visited subs on the other site. I'm now known as the goto for keyboard questions in my circles of friends.

I started getting into fidgeting more lately and took a liking to magnetic sliders and now have a few that I pretty much always have with me.

And that extended into me learning about begleri beads somehow so now I am attempting to learn that. I can do slips and 2 finger wraps and occasiaonal one finger or thumb wraps but not much else yet. I accidentally learned a stall because I messed up. I need to really learn transfers since that is one of the main things you do a lot of.

I think I am also amongst the hyperfixator group in this thread. I was previously into speedsolving Rubik's cubes and roasting coffee so I feel a lot of these answers lol.

[-] hbocao@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

How do you build a custom keyboard? Do they sell every single part in different shapes? (I mean the "chassis", not the key caps). How custom can they be?

[-] suborbital@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Beware brave traveler, you are asking questions that may result in a journey you did not wish to embark.

[-] hbocao@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

lol

I don't think I have the patience nor the money and time, but it does sound fun.

[-] roux@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

This is so true. I spent hundreds on this lol. I am currently typing this on a Ferris Sweep with custom dyed keycaps and I ordered my PCBs special just so I could have them in purple to match my micro-controllers.

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