this is my brother he's here because he knows he's going to get a free keyboard
what i haven't told him yet is that he's going to be building it entirely by himself
oh my gosh he's doing it a couple of them had bent pins felt good wait you don't know where
they all go i don't remember off the top my head where to put keys i can't type in home row if not
maybe he's gonna have to do something else or maybe he won't even get it at all can i go home
after this at least maybe if it thocks [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] in order to find the perfect switch i
had my brother try out a variety of keyboards with different types of switches right on which to me
feels like taking a picnic in the meadow like when anakin skywalker took amidala to that one part
of naboo where they like sat in the field and he like gets run over by that one thing from linear
tactile to what have you and i didn't record most of it oops i think after having tried all these
different ones i really think these are probably the best ones i mean we spent all that time going
through all the different ones but yeah i think there's purples wait you were recording right
right
this here board that we've chosen for this endeavor is the kikron q3 this was sent to
me for free by kikron definitely not for the purpose of this video i don't think they know
i'm giving it away hopefully i'm allowed to if not oh well it's actually not that bad stock why
are we building a keyboard so what are your thoughts on this bad boy these are not the
most attractive keycaps i've seen color wise a little unappealing the feel is good great knob
we like knobs on the hipiotech channel here's what we're gonna do first step we're gonna have
to take all of the key caps off of the keyboard this object right here is a keycap puller
you just kind of like slide it and go okay now do that 80 more times how do you get the big guys off
i just violently pull everything that geotech does is don't try this at home kids
yeah except when i tell them to try it at home like hitting the subscribe button the next step
is to remove all of the switches guessing that's what the other end of this tool is
for you're removing switches he removed the switches so well look at him go
wow so proud of him oh and right as i say that he fails to remove the switch now with the keyboard
fully taken apart it's time to actually take it apart more i light it's not fully taken apart yet
okay now he's gonna unscrew it and we cut to him done we got it unscrewed so let's take her off
what do you see somebody once told me here's what we do here at the hippotech youtube channel
we put tape on keyboards we do that to make the keyboards sound better this keyboard literally
a blacksmith's anvil right now and we need to fix that so here's how we're going to fix that
tape that's our hold wear it on your head like a headband and now that's probably going to hurt
a lot it'll apply your hair oh my gosh he's doing it so essentially we want it covering
just the pcb not this metal bit yep yeah just make sure it doesn't go into the metal bit
and then we've got scissors here and you can cut it and then we're just going to do this
a couple times and don't worry i think i have an idea for this i was gonna force break modded
but it looks like they've already done that and it still pings a bit bunk what's this rattle trap
boards oh it's actually called kill mat it's sound dampening for vehicles this thing goes
now to prevent bing bong from happening we are going to cut this mat into a perfect keyboard
shaped bing bong also the tape is done now so we're going to cut this into keyboard shape
put it in the keyboard kill matt check out my video up here on this mod there you go and now
we're going to now we've got the mat all in and we've got a little bit of foam as a bonus this
was his idea he's actually you know genetic this is going to get rid of a little bit of the gasket
performance but we're not that concerned here with gasket performance we're more concerned with the
juicy and now we're going to screw it in with the wow stick wow link in the bottom left there you
go wow it doesn't sound like a blacksmith anvil anymore solved you picked out these beautiful
baby boys gather on some things i'm going to have them on the screen right down here they're such
good linear switches and if you'd like them you can check them out at the link down below use code
hippo to save five percent so we're gonna need to get these lubed up and we're gonna make him
two hits this is a switch opener you're now going to open the switch look at the switch real quick
analyze the bottom of the switch there you go maybe are the prongs lined up yep whoa we've taken
apart a switch oh my gosh okay because you are a big strong man i give you a big strong brush and
now wait you don't even know what you're doing why are you already lubing them oh no you get a light
layer of lube on your brush so that you can't see it and then you do three strokes on each slider
there you go so three of those and three of those and then go around the world on the inside okay
perfect good enough but guys if you want a proper tutorial please check out this other video on the
top right and maybe not this one now you're going to lube all of these good luck uh we'll see in
three hours at 4am there's no magic here oh wait the magic's done and they're all lubed
yay wow aren't we so tired now now comes the part where you put in your first switch this is a very
exciting moment for all of us at home let's put it right here the pins should be facing the side with
the pin holes so in this case it's gonna be up and then make sure you just slot it in gently and then
there you go that was easy okay now 80 more times here we go a couple of them had bent pins oh if
they have bent pins make sure you unbend the pins before you put them in otherwise you risk popping
out a hot swap socket which would mean we would have to solder it back on or potentially give
up on life we're just gonna bend our pins back with a friendly neighborhood this guy we've got
all of the switches on the keyboard which is great here's the thing though do you know
what type of keycaps you want i had to pick a theme probably favorite video game fire emblem
i don't know if i have like fire emblem keycaps i mean we can i mean i've got like a whole drawer of
keycaps here one second there's too many options with keycaps you could go with pbt you go with
abs you could go with double shot you go a die sub now secretly before this i went and made you fire
emblem keycaps your favorite video game i made the keycaps in the theme one of one set really oh yeah
now how did i make these i made these using wasd keycaps keycap creator they're not a sponsor
they never sponsored the channel i just like them for one-off little keycap designs like this their
quality overall is decent it's not fantastic but it's also not bad so i don't know if any
of you know about fire emblem uh this guy loves fire emblem he loves dazzler the little guy from
fire emblem i made this little axe novelty using a free vector art and some adobe illustrator uh and
now we're gonna put them all on wait you don't know where they all go i mean i don't remember
off the top my head where to put keys i can't type in home row i've hit my head too many times
good luck it's done you put the key caps on what do you think was not as bad as it could have been
could have been worse could have been worse you know that's pretty good track record
josie's reaction was not very positive she said she never wanted to build a keyboard again
you build a keyboard again probably not without your help we are now going to
experience your first typing test on this keyboard good luck godspeed live reaction
to what you think of it and let's go he's trying his best he's 11 words per minute 15.
i uh i'm enjoying this keyboard but it sounds quite nice but my ability to type at a speed
normal people can type is just not there okay all right let me give it a shot i'm not even
that good at typing i just uh i type like a like a little gremlin like a little degenerate
so my brother actually had a pretty great time building his first keyboard even though it
might not have looked like it if watching this made you want to learn how to build your first
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