A Geek Goes Flying

As much as I’ve been loving my MT3-profile, thocky tactile HHKB layout keebs, I wanted to get back to something a bit more stealthy for the office. (It’s nice to have choices!) This is the result: Tokyo60 keyboard I picked this up on eBay for about half the normal selling price, it was described as an unused kit (season 4 slate colorway) but it looked like it had been used: The rubber feet were attached, everything was unwrapped, and it came with the acrylic diffuser panel that's an optional add-on. Worse, the PCB was DOA. The seller credited me $50 back and I used that to get the π60 HSE , which works perfectly with this kit. I built it up using Krytox 205g0 on 43 Studio RX78 stabilizers (lube applied with a Glorious brush ), and the Drop DCX white-on-black keycap set (with " Mac kit " modifiers). The switches are Boba U4 65g , which I haven’t used before (I’ve used the 62s and 68s (I think?)), but so far I like them. They are, indeed, essentially silent, no one can h...

Saw an ad for a black Tokyo60 on r/MechMarket . Price was right (especially with the bundled Boba switches), so I picked it up: Black Tokyo60 with acrylic diffuser, case and plate foam from MKUltra (I removed the case foam, as it was blocking the underglow LED), Poron switch pads, lubed/bandaid and holee modded Durock V2 stabilizers, and Boba U4T switches. This is a different “season” (season 3) than the boards Drop is selling now; the corners of the acrylic diffuser, for instance, aren’t as flush as my other Tokyo60 boards. Followed my own instructions for flashing it to be programmable with VIA . I picked up a set of Drop + MiTo SA Laser keycaps that were on sale last week (and to that I added the Mac modifiers). I’m not wild about the keycaps, to be honest. They’re flatter than the MT3 profile, and what I ordered (or at least what was displayed) had “ASCII” alphanumerics, what I got were keys with the Japanese markings (the Gaijin set), which make the board a lot busier than I like...