Wow, that isn’t half bad. I saw a vid where you can backup the configurations as well.
So onto the next phase of this new found obsession, USB cable. Oh no, can’t use just any ole’ cable, it’s gotta be over the top, sleeved, then another sleeve, and then cool midpoint connectors.
I got a DIY kit some time ago (like I knew I was going to give into this keeb life sooner or later) but check out this pricing:
I have not use for both ends being usb-c, but maybe someone here does. Killer pricing.
I would love to see a pin out. I’ve been really peeved there is no “standard” so you can mix and match sets from different brands. With keychron getting into the cable game, I’d gladly run with their standard. No good reason at all, just being pedantic or something.
I think coiled cables look neat, but I don’t think the big aviator connector looks nice… with the exception of the really thin color matched ones - they look OK. With that said, I also thought it was the stupidest thing until I realized the point of it… and [I don’t think] most people aren’t getting them for that purpose.
Up until yesterday I just thought point was just another way to spend unnecessary money in the hobby, but then I saw a picture of a custom cable with the aviator connector and multiple different ends for it… and then I was like “Oh that makes sense. Maybe you swap keyboards for fun a lot, and they have different connectors USB-C, USB-B, etc…, so you just have a custom cable with the aviator connector, the different ends you need for your different boards, and then you can more easily swap them without having to go behind the computer and change the entire cable.”
If you only use one keyboard primarily, it’s just for aesthetics… and if all your keyboards are the same connector… its just for aesthetics. And those aesthetics aren’t for me. //crotchety old man mode off
100% ^ this post. Once you see the use-case origin (at least for some), you can’t un-see it and it gains respect.
Except I am into the aesthetic haha. Maybe a combo of age (remember and liking coiled cables on phones, old keyboards etc) and my hardware background (appreciation for well built connectors). I don’t like the bulk of the aviators so I’m on the hunt for the super uber slim LEMOs I’ve seen in a few builds.
Yeah, for me it’s mainly the big chunky aviator connector just looks out of place. Most people have a more refined looking setup → sleek keyboard → color matched sleeved/coiled cable → big chunky aviator connector with visible screws to clamp around the cable. Meh.
The others don’t look bad because they’re sleek and seem less out of place. Something like this:
If you fine something thin and nice let me know. I don’t like the aviator connectors at all, I think they are rough, cheap and often not very smooth. There are better connectors out there.
But I do like a coiled cable, have not gotten one yet andi like the swapping ends, or boards that appeals to me quite a bit.
I do wish the coils were looser and longer like the old phones and PCs though.
Yeah, I don’t own any either, but always thought they looked nice. A pair of my headphones have coiled cable, and the weight is sometimes an issue there.
Yeah I like them for desks and phones, makes sense there not often have to move far but some times and the rest of the time it sits on a desk. My friend has a VOX coiled cable and I hate it. Gets in the way, is huge in every way even the plug has a big moulded housing around it, is heavy and take up too much material for a simple task.
There is a 360p nasty youtube pick of a now-defunct maker that found some super sleek LEMO.
Unless that size introduced too much resistance thats the size I’m going for.
LEMOs catalog is ridiculous, they make tens of thousands of types, but I’m trying to filter through it.
I’ve found ones that I think are what most DIY sites are using, the cable OD the ends will except are 7mm, around what I think a sleeved and shrink wrapped USB might be.
Yeah, I think it’s a special type of XLR connector.
The one I posted above is the Epomaker EP-01 on Amazon. If I continue to be overly picky, the branding on the USB ends makes it look less premium (the silver one I posted*).
Here’s rainbow one on Amazon that mentions XLR in the title as well in regard to the connector. Definitely not a regular XLR size for sure…
The one I saw originally was just a simple black sleeved and coiled cable with a blacked out connector like that.
Yeah the one in the picture is pretty long and chunky. I don’t mind the chunk but the length is not as nice looking.
Those small ones though… Again if you find them, let me know.
@snowBlind623 yeah I am picky like that too. The big branded USB ends look cheap. And I have heard comaints that if you plug those in the back of a tower the USB port under I will not be useable because its so wide.
Wow these and the Kriscables ones are more expensive than some of my boards! More than one board that has a ALU top, swapped gat yellows, swapped springs and taihao maimi caps!
I couldn’t make out what he called the ‘LEMO-like’ connector, but he did mention the size is ‘0b’ which could be helpful when looking for these // or specing out one to be built by someone else.
Hmmm now I am considering a super artisan detachable cable.
Just a cable from the PC and the keyboard with bare frayed wire ends and then twist them together so they are all sticking out and splayed away from each other to stop shorts.
One of a kind, artisan, handmade, $250 please. Comes with fresh stick of gum if you want to make it more permanent.
