Hello this is the Provoked Prawn and in this video I want to show you how I butchered the Corsair k70
Pro Mini wireless or at least a behind the scenes look at the various things I did for my main video
now if you've watched that video you'll have seen some stop motion as you can see here with keycaps
replacing the standard black ones now I have a couple of different kits that I wanted to use
for this video to make things a little bit more interesting so rather than doing my traditional
unboxing video I wanted to essentially create something a bit more engaging and a bit more
entertaining and the process here gives you a taste of just how much effort goes into it
because it a very short clip at the beginning and I had a couple of them in the main video and I'll
see them again in a second doesn't really give a view of how much effort this took a good few hours
in order to do as you can see I'm basically replacing each keycap one by one taking four
pictures every time I change a keycap so there's enough pictures to make the stop motion actually
kind of smooth perhaps could even go for more I have done five in the past but that's something
to play around with you can see I'm remotely controlling my overhead camera with my phone here
then one by one changing the keycaps and swapping them out now this is a reasonably affordable
keycap set that I purchased off amazon I just thought it was kind of funky it looked pretty cool
and I thought it might just add a little bit of change to the Corsair keyboard out of the box I
think it looks a bit boring if I'm honest I'm going to show you how I've changed it to make
it look a bit nicer now they are PBT double shot but they don't let through much like the
original keycaps so I wanted to change the look now you might have seen my Corsair k65
RGB Mini video you can see a snippet of that here and you'll see that I used PBT double shot keycaps
and now I wanted to do the same thing with the k70 Pro Mini wireless unfortunately I didn't have
enough time to do the same sort of watermelon style but this is a completely different setup
and this takes even longer so the process here for creating that view that you've just seen
essentially requires me to take one key off and then take it off again and put it back again so
you put a blue key on and then take the blue key off put the black one back on then I take the
next key off put the blue key on that one then put the black one back and then basically so it
creates the illusion of the blue key moving across the entire keyboard obviously you can't use one
key and just move it across you have to use the specific key for each area so obviously backspace
wouldn't be able to replace one of the other keys so I'm basically creating a movement across here
and you can see some of that sped up here but as I said this took a few hours in order to do both
those shots and uh quite a lot of patience now the k70 Pro Mini wireless is interesting for a number
of different reasons and I've gone into that in the review it has the usual wonder of Corsair's 8
000 Hertz polling rate 4 000 Hertz key scanning it has Bluetooth it has 2.4 gigahertz but more
importantly and more excitingly it's the first hot swappable keyboard from Corsair so the brand has
never done hot swappable keys before so this is great and I was really excited for this because
it gave potential to make something interesting so you can see that you can pull the keys out
there's no need for soldering or desoldering and so it makes it upgradable and changeable it comes
with two sorts of Cherry switches as standard so I thought it'd be fun to try and lube up some other
switches and replace the entire keycaps and the entire key switch set up and make it a lot better
and so my original plan was to use some novel keys creams which I've already previously lubed
and set up in a different keyboard however I came unstuck when I discovered that the k70
only has three pin connections as you can see so it'll only work with three pin switches not
five so those switches are lubed previously were five pin so here you can see me just test lubing
a Gataron yellow switch and I've done this in a messy messy way but lubing up switches
makes them a lot quieter a lot more pleasant to use and I would recommend it I've done a video
recently previously with the Royal Kludge keyboard where I did lube them up and changed up the entire
set and it made quite a difference it made it sound quite a bit nicer and that is what you can
do this is one option Gataron yellows are also nice switches to use but the novel keys creams
are even smoother but you do have the option to do this so it is pretty nice that you have that
capability alongside all the other specs and as you can see things like the lighting bar that runs
around the outside and some nice RGB lighting which is kind of missed out until you throw
on something like this still serious prism cap so these are pudding keycaps of course they probably
aren't very happy about me using Steelseries keycaps on their keyboard I think it makes
it look a lot nicer so hopefully this has been an interesting insight into what went into that video
be sure to check out the full video linked in the description thanks for watching have a great life