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Hey!

So, I just finished and have now finalized my work flow for processing Kinesis Advantage 360 and 360 pro switch replacement process. I was contacted regarding doing such a service and as a result found out about how UpgradeKeyboards handles their "only authorized" service.

In that they've got a 6 month+ lead time.

While I'm not "officially authorized" I do terrific work. I'm just finishing up designs on 3d printed soldering shields to make the process further streamlined.

If you don't want to wait an near infinite amount of time to have a functional board in your hands let me know!

I haven't fully hammered down the price but the process takes me ~2.5 hours. (~75-100$)

It would function in the following way; Contact me; I'll need you to send me the board; and if you want specific switches I can order them or what I've had work before is just include them keyboard.

My turn around time is literally 1 day unless I get utterly flooded.

I build keyboards for (almost a living) I'm using professional equipment; can diagnose other problems, and while I'm reasonably new (8~months in) I've made pretty solid impressions with my own designs, so I believe I can at least help offer to deal with the current lead-times.

You can checkout my reviews, work, and anything else at my site or etsy store: www.skree.us www.etsy.com/shop/TheBigSkree

You can reach me on discord at alakuu or skree_llc

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[–] Glemek@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would it be possible to put hot swap sockets in the board? I've thought about getting a KA360, but lack of a hotswap option has stopped me from really seriously considering it.

Looking at your shop I kight pick up a set of your dactyl flexible pcbs and revisit building a dactyl if I can cut that much soldering out...

[–] Skree@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Actually after a couple of hours I think I found a sister component with the same behavior, so given enough time I can probably get replacement boards with hotswap assuming I can get my hands on another board to try and trace track