stop before you comment that this is very sus these are tadpoles i am building a keyboard
okay the frog tkl to be precise ribbit this is a very special keyboard with some special features
and we'll be building it out with some gatter on hippo switches yay hippos and one of the best
keycaps that's ever made question mark wait to find out more and you're probably wondering what's
going on with these cute old guys don't worry i'm just as excited as you are and we'll talk
about that too wait what's that chip a bunch of people aren't subscribed what youtube might have
unsubscribed them and they can resubscribe for free oh okay well they better hit that chip yeah
anyways we're just jumping right into it in this video i've got a package from swag keys and jion
works now my wallet is incredibly unhappy at this package but i'm kind of happy with it so i was one
of the streamers that was chosen to purchase the frog tkl at a slightly discounted rate
the frog tkl is the 10 keyless keyboard which we'll talk about a little bit more and i paid
250 for it and it normally comes in at 285. it comes with this very nice carrying case which can
take quite a few punches and all of the extra accessories were packaged in there quite well
it shipped from korea i think so i was a little bit sketched out about things not getting here
safely but with all this good packaging i was quite happy now i think jion's gonna be
periodically restocking this board so definitely keep an eye peeled if you're interested in this
board at all it came with an aluminum plate but i had to purchase some of the other stuff separately
for example the pcb was 60 dollars for the hot swap version and the plate was 30 for the fr4
also mentioning good packaging i thought my strong rock climber hippo hands could open this but like
holy moly that was a disaster after fighting with the packaging i'm able to get out the oh
that's a pretty bored so this is the frog tkl it's a full aluminum keyboard with a brass weight with
weird little cutouts in it tkls are the big papa of 75 or the little baby of full-size keyboards
as they keep the little arrow keys separate this board was incredibly well machined and honestly
i was pretty blown away with the craftsmanship of it like this is a quality piece of work look
at that freaking side oh hippie a side note here i love boards with little side cutouts like this
as normally if they're too heavy you can't really pick them up and move them around your
desk easily without it on the back you see a frog engraving in cursive which is questionably tacky
and potentially my least favorite aesthetic part of this board is the brass weight
like the color choice here just seems like kind of a poopy gold like very very poopy and the
inside of my brass weight had a really really big scuff on it which was quite disappointing
overall i'd probably want to recolor the weight speaking of weight let's not wait to get this
open let's just use our little wow stick link in the description and kablamo all of the screws have
been undone and this reveals what's peculiar about the board and what really sets it apart and makes
it unique uh hipio putting in the tadpoles wrong don't put them in like that by the way we'll get
to the part where i do that correctly anyways let's take a look at the plates that came with
the board this is the aluminum plate and it's got a lot of flex cuts and this is the fr4 plate that
i had to purchase and it's gorgeous i decided to go with this one as i personally like the feel
and sound of fr4 a bit more and yeah it was pretty and then next we've got the pcb because i like to
tinker with stuff a lot more i got the hotspot version as it ends up saving you a lot of time
this was 60 bucks and it's got south facing leds five pin support and a sangon layout meaning it
uses quite an abnormal space bar which is 7u and some other weird stuff on the bottom you can look
up the song gun part but look it's made in china it's got a fun sticker speaking of made in china
check out my merch this hemp carryall pouch that i put on my lube in you can get it from
the link down below and support the channel it's pretty cool speaking of available from the link
down below what's with these segways in this video pippio so i used crytox205g0 to lube my
morgree stabilizers i got the crytox from kinetic labs and the morgries from prevail key company
however they were in my drawer of doom and uh i kinda lost like two of the stems the magic stab
the magic stamp ah did i say i lost two of them yeah i actually lost four of them and i ended
up having to go with two black stems so my spacebar is a little bit goth but on a
happier note i decided to build this out with gadaron hippos i feel like i have to say this
every time i use these switches but these are not my switch these are a linear with an unwiped stem
and you can check out my review of them in the top right if i remember to put it up there these
have also been lubed with cryotalks 205 g0 and i didn't really pick them for any particular reason
other than that they feel fine and i had them not in any build also i'm getting sick of 68 gram
springs so if you actually happen to get one of these and you're following along at home i put all
the switches in the corners first and then kind of fill around to make sure that the plate works
this is so the plate doesn't warp and so that you don't accidentally bust out the hot swap sockets
also there's some magic and also i ran out of hippos so i had to use huskies for the f row just
kind of ignore that part it's not relevant but you remember how i put those tadpoles in wrong before
i i realized that i put them in wrong and now we're gonna put them in right the right way yay
so these actually go into your plate with the butt side facing down and there is a different
like squishiness of these available but i did not realize that when i purchased this board
also dear god these were incredibly frustrating to install and i would have liked installing
them the other way even though that wasn't the right way that just was so much easier
but i guess it wasn't as bad as installing poron gaskets on some boards so you know you
choose your battles okay but now you're thinking hip bio you put those little things in what now
yeah you literally just set it down that's it yeah there's really not much flair to this board
it just kind of works i really do appreciate that though it makes the setup quite easy
so then you just put the top housing on and you bop it with your wow stick and then you install
those little non-slip feet by the way these feet are genius and probably my favorite part of the
board and you know what else is genius following my twitter and instagram at hypiotech go for it
this is a pretty brilliant way to make your board seem screwless like very nice okay so we got the
switches and what's next it's the keycaps and boy oh boy i'm freaking excited to show these keycaps
off okay massive bias warning this is my keycap set i made this this is infinity delight this is a
prototype of the set however it'll be available to buy sometime in the next week or two so check the
link in the description if there's one there that means you can buy it if there's not one there then
it's too early i'm sorry now this set has a bunch of lovely lovely characters like beanie chip and
bobby that's from left to right and i've themed it on things that are very delightful primarily
like mint chip ice cream matcha boba you know the vibe i'll talk about it more later uh abracadabra
well we're stooping to that level of magic now okay cool but anyways back to the keycap set
it's got creamy alphas blue gray mods with green accents and optional peak accents but those aren't
shown here i am super omega proud of the set and definitely please consider checking it out
at the link down below if there is one remember that might not be there yet if there's no link
there you could just follow my discord for updates i'll post all the updates there but now you're
probably thinking that i have a frog in my throat or something and because i'm not talking about the
keyboard but let's talk about the keyboard uh honestly it's okay but i was genuinely a little
bit underwhelmed like this was around 400 after shipping and that is a hefty price to be paying
now the gaskets here you can see give a tiny bit of flex but it isn't the craziest thing in
the world and honestly it feels no different than typing on an integrated plate like i'm not insane
it's just really the difference between mounting styles is very overstated by a lot of people and
you can't really feel the difference here except in your wallet anyways here's the stabilizers
so this board definitely is capable of something and it's by no means bad like those stabilizers
were quite nice honestly quite nice and they were more grease stabilizers which
really suck now i'll definitely tinker with this board a little bit more in the future and my next
idea was building it out with the aluminum plate to see what i think of that if you'd like to see
me do that on a stream make sure you're subscribed but back to the thoughts i think this board is
gorgeous and it's quite a nice work of engineering now my experience with this board is only in one
configuration so i can't speak to every possible configuration for the board so keep that in mind
when you hear my opinions on it but with how i've configured it with the fr4 plate and hippos it's
really nothing to write home about like don't get me wrong it's definitely alright but honestly i
don't quite see the 400 value here but ultimately you can decide whether or not the features of this
board are interesting to you that's the fun of keyboards baby nah but on the reel if this board
is back in stock and you decided to purchase it it wouldn't be a bad idea however if you
were to pay anything over the retail price for it that's a bad idea definitely don't buy this
resale resell market debt r.i.p like i think i saw somebody trying to sell it on mech market for 1200
and yeah that would suck anyways i'll be leaving you guys with an incredibly subjective sound test
make sure you watch the whole thing to support my youtube algorithm overlords like seriously
just let it run in the background or susan won't let me eat please if you enjoyed the video give
it a like hit subscribe and do a sound test of your own in the comments also remember to join
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