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AEthernali OP t1_jefegyv wrote

To be fair i was too lazy to open the keyboard.

Here is the output for lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1a86:7523 QinHeng Electronics CH340 serial converter
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 05ac:024f Apple, Inc. Aluminium Keyboard (ANSI)

05ac:024f Is the chip i'm talking to send RGB data

My only knowledge with keyboard chips is with Sonix ones. This one is definitly not, so no SonixQMK for this board

Hope it can help you

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jackielii OP t1_jefcc4p wrote

Reply to comment by NoOne-NBA- in My Ideal Layout by jackielii

Thanks for the suggestion. I actually did a bit of googling on this. Turns out there isn't many near me (Surrey, UK). There was one last September in London, but doesn't seem to have announced another one for this year.

Will definitely search a bit more on this. Would love to go to a meet up!

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IAlwaysReplyLate t1_jefauyh wrote

I suspect people who want a bouncy feel would be better served by spring-mount, but they're rarer at the moment... or by plateless, which are even rarer. The trouble is that gasket mount can supply a measure of spring and is easier to design than spring-mount or plateless, so manufacturers tend to use that and people start expecting gasket-mounts to be bouncy.

So what are you to do? Cater both for people who want bounce and for people who want sound insulation without bounce. Maybe that's a spring-mount board for the bounce fans, maybe that's several specifications of gasket if you don't want to go spring-mount. After all, you (probably) offer several different choices of switch to suit people's differing tastes - why wouldn't you offer different gaskets to suit the differing tastes in the market?

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ini_kamoze t1_jefamdz wrote

Thanks for this. Do you have any more information regarding flashing this chip/keyboard? I'm currently waiting for mine and I'd like to add some more functionality but I can't find too much information. Do you have any idea what chips are being used, if there are any programming pins exposed?

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NoOne-NBA- t1_jefakjo wrote

Reply to comment by jackielii in My Ideal Layout by jackielii

I highly recommend keyboard meetups, if you can find one near you.

That's saved me a ton on money, by allowing me to test all kinds of stuff (different cases, layouts, switches, keycaps, etc...), all at someone else's expense.

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