- This is honestly the nicest keyboard I've ever built
and I can't believe I'm giving this thing away.
The channel recently passed 300,000 subscribers
and to celebrate, I thought I would surprise one of you guys
with a custom keyboard.
To get this kicked off,
I made a story on my Instagram,
saying whoever replied the fastest,
would get a free custom keyboard
and within seconds, there was a reply.
And at the end, you get to see his reaction to the keyboard.
All right, keyboard time.
Keyboard time.
W-U-Q-E, no,
W-U-Q-U-E Studio,
this is their Ikki68
Aurora keyboard,
coming back for a Round Two, it has like a ton of parts so,
I am a little bit concerned about today's build,
So, they have, they said these are their onion switches,
which I guess they are, they look very oniony I suppose
and they are pre-lubed,
so they sound, they sound nice.
I'm not gonna have to lube anything, which is really good.
This container's nice,
but I would like it to have a handle, you know,
if I could carry it around like a lunchbox.
PCB,
hot swap, check.
Plate, polycarb
(gasps)
Fairbanks one PCB,
it's nice and green,
USB-C port in the middle, I will plug it in though,
should at least make sure it works.
Wow,
is this under glow?
Wow, it is under glow,
I like it.
Feet, they said install the feet, but they already did.
I think this is the badge case,
drop the badge.
Boom.
Screw in,
we're back at the PCB, it even comes with the
stabilizer tape, whatever it's called.
So there needs to be one.
I'm pretty sure you have to use tweezers with this,
but I am
winging it.
What's this keyboard look like?
Whoa, look at this, you can do the full size right Shift
or the
small right Shift and add a little wonkey here.
Which one should I do?
Full-size means that I need to lube more stabilizers.
Why all the hate against stabs?
They're the worst,
they're actually the worst.
Now, for lube, not my favorite thing to do,
pricingly necessary but I still hate it.
(gasps)
I'm running out,
stabilizers are almost done but sometimes,
when we do the edit and I'm screwing in normal screws,
like this, I'm spinning, we add fake wowstick sounds,
just so that I can make myself feel better.
(wowstick drilling)
Yeah it's not as cool in real life,
it actually is super lame.
Yeah, this is right, I'm doing a great job, really good job.
Yay.
These are the last stabilizers, then we're done,
done.
Boom,
yes, next,
standoffs can only be used with the default.
Okay, well, screw standoffs, we don't need standoffs.
Next, polycarb plate, super lightweight.
I love the packaging, if it would come out, obviously,
please come out, can you come out, please?
Don't do this to me, not right now.
Yeah, beautiful polycarbonate plate, so flexible.
I'm gonna do the short Shift, the short Shift
and then the something on the side.
So this is really easy, ooh, smooth.
They look beautiful, right?
So they do have the kale-style latch system here,
which does make them more difficult to open in my opinion.
And they have the box design, but because they're pre-lubed,
I mean, who cares if they're harder to open?
You never gonna open them, you're not gonna open them.
Next, so the cool thing about this plate and PCB is that,
even though it's hot swap,
it's still super versatile,
like you could do stepped caps lock,
you can do normal caps lock, you can do a full sized Shift,
you can do whatever you want, you can do split space bars.
What?
Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
I forgot to mention,
their switch puller is so cool, I use my own here
but their switch puller's fancy.
So I'm gonna put my switch puller away
and use theirs instead.
I want the normal Enter, nothing crazy there.
And then I want the normal left Shift,
nothing crazy there either.
How many keyboards have I made in my whole life?
Too many, too many.
So when working with hot swap PCBs, hot swap sockets,
always support your socket from behind,
right here,
Support and then push or else you risk
your sockets being pulled out
and then your switch not working and then it will suck.
That's nice, that's really nice.
How do you not break keyboards by accident?
I break things all the time,
but it's also on me to fix them.
So if I break something, then I have to spend more time
later fixing it and I don't have time,
so I try not to break things the first time.
(keys snapping)
Let's do gaskets.
Should I do all of them?
A few of them?
We're going all silicone.
You can use how many you want, try different combos.
Okay my first combo, I'm just gonna try them all.
I'm doing all of the gaskets, every single one of them,
because, more is more, not less is more.
Do keycaps wear out over time?
They do.
Doesn't matter how long keycaps last,
enthusiasts change keyboards every two weeks.
Building is quite time consuming,
but it's actually pretty fun too.
Bottom case, done.
Top case, not done at all,
this a lot of work.
It'll turn out great, I think so.
I think so too.
It'll turn out the best and if not,
then it's probably a user error,
the user being myself
not building it very well.
Seven more, seven more.
Can we speed run it?
Can I?
Last one.
(clapping)
I did it, best affordable keyboard
is the friends we made along the way.
Okay, gaskets are done.
Next, it only took me an hour to finish stabilizers
and another hour to put in gaskets but it's time.
It's time, to put in various sound dampening pads,
we've got the thickest silicone dampeners I've ever seen.
But, this is thick.
Better than any silicone thing that I've ever made.
Thick.
Put this on this,
and then,
put this on this.
Okay, perfect, everything is not as perfect as can be.
Looks so cute the colors are very nice
but I think I'm having some gasket tolerance issues,
that is my mistake, and I also forgot one.
Who makes mistakes like this?
(gasps)
I still think this isn't right though.
I can't do this.
This was supposed to be easy, they said it would be easy.
I'll make it easy, oh I got it, I got it.
My silicone dampening material between the plate and PCB
was like thick, so thick,
but now that I fixed it, should work, back in business.
Yes, I'm back in business.
Lubing is rough, lubing is very rough.
That's why pre-lube switches is life,
pre-lube switches is love, what's next?
Keycaps.
I figured, since it's Meso-themed, I'm going to go with the
Kinetic Labs PolyCaps Whale,
PBT keycaps.
I like to check my stabilizers first.
Yes, nicely tuned stabs just make your day so much better,
and
A,
S,
D,
don't mind my keycaps being in the wrong place,
fairly common.
It's so nice.
M, N,
B, P
Honestly, I think it's gonna be a really close competition,
between this and the KBD67 Lite,
like it's gonna be a really tough decision.
All right, Arrow key, Arrow keys.
It is looking really, really, really good
and where is short Shift?
Here,
(keys clicking)
that's nice.
Hello?
How are you?
I built this on stream the other day and it's this thing.
- [Subscriber] Oh my God that's amazing.
Looks beautiful, and it's even better
because his favorite color is actually blue.
- That's perfect.
- [Subscriber] I can't wait, thank you so much.
- [Subscriber] (gasps)
- What?
(keys clicking)
- [Subscriber] Yeah.
- (indistinct).
- [Subscriber] I know, right?
- Oh, look, there's whales.
- [Subscriber] That looks awesome, it's a little badge.
- That's a water badge?
- [Subscriber] And look, there's some fish.
- Oh, fish.
(keys clicking)
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