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My first ever bulid and I'm so excited! It's not trivial to build a perfect keyboard just from parts you can order in Europe. This is one doesn't look exactly how I imagined it but I love it anyway. If anyone is interested - it's a Sofle Choc V3 kit from 42. Keebs.

The first few days were a bit hard but after just a week of using it I was able to beat my monkeytype high score. I'm still not really fluid in using it for programming and vim in general though.

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[–] Chimrod@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago

I've also ordered a sofle choc v3 and started to use it, but I didn't soldered the led or the screens yet. I'm also happy with my keyboard and the delivery was done properly !

As a minor point I'm not sure if the sources for the keyboard have been published yet (the fork in the repo haven't been updated since a lot of time, and I didn't found a v3 branch). This is not a problem for me but can be if you have foss vibes.

I've also removed the bottom plate because it make the keyboard sound... oddly when you press a key. I have to make some tests with plasstics screws instead of the metal ones given in the kit.

Otherwise, I'm very happy with the keyboard, comming from a typematrix I've been able to use it as soon it was flashed !