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There's a whole hobby called model building, building a mechanical keyboard is more like building a model than you appear to think. That's why. Why do you go o
by samatman 4y ago
There's a whole hobby called model building, building a mechanical keyboard is more like building a model than you appear to think. That's why.
Why do you go on the internet and ask aggressive questions predicated on a wrong premise? Just out of curiousity.
- prmoustache 4y agoThere is no aggeessivity in my question. I assembled many model kits and it never occurred to call myself a builder. Model kit builder concieve the kits and or create parts out of raw material, epoxy putty and/or 3d printing. Similarly a bicycle builder will solder/bond individual tubes to build custom frame and fork, possibly custom stem and/or racks. A brand that source frame builts in Asia will but mount the ready made part will say "assembled in <insert the country>. Maybe I am picky with semantics but it strikes me as arrangant to call ourself builders when we just pick up and assemble parts.
- ProZsolt 4y agoBut they selecting the individual components, buying them from different vendors, then assembling them to the final thing. You can "build" a PC or a bicycle without creating any custom part, but the end result will be unique. A keyboard has less parts(board, switches, keycaps and maybe a controller) but I think it still count as built. If you order everything as part of one kit, like the furniture from Ikea, then yes, you just assembling it together.
- samatman 4y agoSerious question: is English your first language? There's no ambiguity here, the hobby is called model building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_building
- voussoir 4y agoFor what it's worth, I feel the same way you do and very carefully chose the word "assembling" instead of "building" when I blogged about putting my keyboard together.