- Today I will be building
the Zoom65 from Meletrix.
It's ultra hyped up.
It's affordable.
It's slick.
I'm excited.
So, Meletrix Desktop Art Creator.
Why does it need an extra plastic bag? So unnecessary.
Got the case. Everything is in the case.
They also sent to me key caps that are supposed to go on it.
Yeah. So this is the old edition.
This is the Olivia edition.
I don't have the Essential edition.
This one doesn't have the weight inside.
What a weird texture for a case, but it feels ultra smooth.
Let's open it up.
Ooh. Everything is inside here.
Their braided oiled cable.
I don't need this, but it's nice.
Ooh, something cute in a bag.
That's cute, whatever's in here.
A bear shaped switch opener.
Oh, that's nice.
And they send me these switches
but I don't know if I'll use these switches.
Okay. This one's feet and a knob.
And finally, and look at the case.
Ooh. It seems a lot simpler
than their other build that I did.
Ooh, they're stabilizers.
I like their stabilizers.
They're very nice.
Let's go look at a guide.
I have all the parts, I think.
No. No, I don't have all.
Where are all of my foams?
Did they forget foams?
No, not the foams.
Foamless build.
Open the key caps box.
Okay. Let's open a key cap box.
Hopefully it's in there.
Oh, maybe.
Ooh. Maybe, maybe we're saved.
Yay, we're saved.
Plot twist. Everything is in here.
Thank goodness.
Things were about to be a disaster.
All right.
Case foam. Here we go.
Here we go.
I'll decide the foams when we get there
but I'm glad we have them.
Whew. Okay.
Now that we have confirmed that we got everything,
let's follow the guide.
So I believe that what I have is a Zoom65 Olivia Dark.
Right now they're selling the Essential edition.
You can pre-order right now.
And look at these.
Oh wow.
Look at those colors.
If I had a choice, I would pick sky blue or lilac.
These are beautiful.
And you even get to choose your own weights and your knob.
Very nice.
And it's Bluetooth.
Okay. That's enough looks too good.
Looks too good.
Back to building.
Oh, first I do stabilizers.
You can holee mod the stabilizers using the
provided F1 drips.
How convenient I'm gonna holee mod.
I've never done this.
I'm sort of excited.
Wow. It's so small.
Oh wow. They're like super sticky too.
Wow. I'm impressed.
That was really easy.
Precut holee mod strips.
Amazing.
I'm like newb over here.
Still cutting my own bandaids.
How bad is it if there's just some stuff
hanging off the front?
I'm just gonna cut it. Solved.
Indy, no.
Wow. This is wild.
Hey, holee mod, done.
There's been a lot going on this week.
I made a notebook.
I drew the sketch and then got my brother to finish,
you know, the real art of it.
'Cause I'm not an artist, but I really liked it.
It was a good notebook.
Shopswitchandclick.com
There we go.
Dunk the wire.
I like, I like taking my time.
I don't like dunking in krytox.
If it was dialectic, I'd dunk it all day.
Okay. Stabilizers are done.
The guide then now says, pick your PCB.
Like this, take the Poron switch foam
and place it on the PCB.
Okay. That's this one.
Goes like this.
Next, mount your stabilizers.
I'm changing my ways.
Instead of being rushed all the time, I'm now meticulous.
I'm slow now.
Being slow means you get a better keyboard.
That's what I've learned.
When you rush, you don't get as good of a keyboard.
PCB foam looks squishy.
It is! It's super spongy, cute feeling.
Where's my handy dandy screw driver?
These are Woche.
I don't know if it's woo-kay okay or woo-che,
but it's their stabilizers.
They don't even know I stream on Twitch.
It's the only place I stream on now.
They got new emotes that were drawn
that are like super cute.
Okay. Stabilizers are done.
Step six, please take out the PC plate.
And the standoffs.
Screw the standoffs to the back of the plate.
Look at how small this thing is.
It's so cute.
Place the PCB on top,
with the hot swap sockets facing you.
That's easy.
Also not easy because I only used two standoffs.
What? Switch.
Let me look at the linear tier list
so that I can decide what switches I want.
Ooh, Durock lavender.
Let's, okay, Let's use Durock lavenders.
I'm excited for this.
Lavenders, very pretty.
Oh no. This is such a flexy build.
No, this is so annoying.
I don't have plate forks.
So this is gonna be fun.
Drop announced their MT2. And I had a meeting with them.
They're basically another Cherry.
They just wanted to clean up
a lot of the legending.
So instead of their molds being smaller
they do the whole thing in like one mold.
But that limits the amount
of versatility you can do with it.
So they can't do gradient type of stuff.
They told me their turnaround time
was a lot faster than GMK.
They're pretty flat.
I like to use a switch puller
to pull up the plate.
Ooh, that's smart.
That is so smart.
My, you are a genius.
I really wonder how this keyboard will compare
to the QK 65 though.
I'm excited to try out both.
All right next step.
We're getting there.
Yeah. Foam is on.
Put that aside and get to the bottom case
and take out the rubber feet.
Ooh, I actually haven't even seen the bottom.
Cute. Like a telescope.
Maybe. I don't know.
It looks like a telescope.
Maybe a rocket ship.
I like their logo.
I don't know what it is.
Oh, it's telescope.
Yeah. I thought it was a telescope too.
Okay. Because Zoom! Oh.
Duh, Zoom65.
That's nice.
I really like the sparkly finish of the black case too.
Use Allen key to unscrew top case from bottom case.
Oh, that's a lot of screws.
Ooh, here we go.
Usually I am quite slow with everything,
but not today.
Tweezers under head.
Wow. You all all have these like crazy hacks
and I'm just like,
"oh, fingernails!"
I've got this. Install gasket.
There are three sizes of gaskets.
Please use the one that matches the recess on your case.
This is relaxing.
I'm pretty relaxed.
I do have to work out after this.
So I shouldn't be as relaxed
but I could totally sleep after this.
It's like therapeutic keyboard building,
except it's more expensive than therapy.
Tacos are drive? Maybe.
So this morning we went on an hour long walk
and then we decided to get Panda Express for breakfast.
And no one was there.
I feel like Panda for breakfast
is a interesting, interesting choice.
And then we realized that there was a new
Seven Eleven close by that opened up with a taco joint.
I didn't wanna try it out.
Panda Express, thought they were switches.
It's like a fast food, Chinese place.
Holy Panda Express.
These are sort of fun.
And then these go over those.
There's a lot of foam here.
And then what the heck is this?
I don't even think you use this.
Press the assembled late and PCB combo
on top of the bottom case.
Place top case on. Seems a little thick, very thick.
Maybe there's too much foam.
What if I just remove this and then try closing it again?
Why is it so thick?
Okay. I think I know what I did wrong.
It is a bit concerning.
They don't give you a lot of space here.
Yeah. I could try forcing it down
and then closing it that way.
I'll smoosh it. I'll try.
Okay, that's not, that's not a bad alignment.
That's decent.
It's getting there. It's almost done.
It's very close.
Now I can put in the remaining switches.
All the flex cuts make it very hard.
Now I need the knob.
Yeah, I'm gonna screw it in. Tighten it.
There we go. It's tight now.
Knob installation done.
Please work.
Wow. I've never had this many switch pins bend,
and I wasn't being tough on them.
Look at it.
It's like, like nasty looking.
Everything works!
Time for the caps!
I'm excited.
Here are the Olivia key caps.
Okay. That's nice.
I'm glad the stabilizer sounds nice.
The knob does.
Oh no. I thought I tightened it.
Oh no.
I don't know why my knob just fell off like that.
My jim screw or whatever, it fell out of my knob.
No! Your mom walked in?
It's not an actual knob.
I mean, it is an actual knob, but it's not what you think.
It's a tool on a keyboard.
There might have been too much foam.
There's a weird curvature.
I don't know if you can see it.
Maybe you don't see it.
Maybe it's just me.
Maybe there is no weird curvature.
Okay. Everything works.
Ooh. That, yup. Yup. It's nice.
(keys clacking)
Yeah. Sounds nice.
The knob's fine.
Yeah. I never use knobs personally.
It might be a little annoying to use it.
If it hits the delete key.
Maybe there's not enough space there.
If you're just doing it on the side, like this it's fine.
But I think turning it is a little bit annoying.
It is. It has bumps.
I don't know, that is the Zoom65.
This is the Olivia edition.
The other one is in pre-order right now.
Very affordable.
Yeah. So you just need to get
switches and key caps.
Other than that, it has everything you need.
Yeah, there it is.
It's nice.
Have a good night, everybody.