FW3A, a TLF/BLF EDC flashlight - SST-20 available, coupon codes public

On a more positive note, It took Newport News Shipbuilding less time to build (and commission) the first ship in a class of entirely new aircraft carriers (Essex) than it has taken to put together this flashlight. Way to go Newport News Shipbuilding! :wink:

@JasonWW
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Good thing the FW3A is just a flashlight. Right?

Flashlight are way more complicated than Ships. But good job anyway.

I still have a couple old buckling-spring keyboards, but they’re pretty much never found in the 65% form factor I like. So I have newer keyboards with MX-style switches.

According to my logs, this new one already has about 5 million keypresses on it.

I’m tempted to look for one with Kaihua Copper switches though, instead of the Hako True switches I’m using now. It’s a lighter touch, more tactile, and less spongey toward the bottom. Or maybe I’ll just finally get a key switch tester board to try a wider range, and find a keyboard with hot-swappable switches. I happen to know a guy who is making one, and it runs open-source firmware, and I’ve already added stuff to that firmware…

There’s more than one rabbit hole to fall into. :slight_smile:

One for me. Thank you

Hey! Leave my rabbit hole alone! Barely room for me in there and I NEED my rabbit hole! :wink:

(Thelonious Monk makes it habitable.)

Lance_Hardrod would like 2 of these lights.

Great stage name.

Please drop me from the list #963 Thank you! Good luck to all!

In 1941.

The current construction schedule isn’t quite as tight.

That’s a nice mecha.
What brand & model is that?

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Once again, I’m confused by your posts.

I have the impression his wallet thinner detector broke loose while seeing that keyboard.

These types of keyboards do sell for a pretty penny.

It’s called a WhiteFox. It’s one of very few models I’ve found with the HHK+arrows layout (HHK = Happy Hacking Keyboard). I have the keys on mine rearranged a bit compared to the picture, but it’s still reasonably close.

If I get another any time soon, it’ll be similar but with a split space bar, RGB lighting per key, hot-swappable switches, and cleaner firmware. I made a physics simulation of a swimming pool which responds to keypresses and splashes colors around as if each key stroke is someone dropping a bowling ball into the pool. It’s totally unnecessary, but it also makes typing really satisfying. Did I mention I like shiny things?

WhiteFox and Tada68 (what I’m using with Aliaz Silent 70g) and definitely the most useful in that size category. I don’t need a numpad or whatever that other cluster w/home, pg up/down is called but my arrow keys aren’t going anywhere.

Having Esc on the same row as my numbers is also literally a lifechanger. I don’t code but I see zero reason for tilde to take that spot.

I use tilde a lot, but I like it on the upper right corner instead of upper left. I use Escape a lot too. And with Backspace moved down one row, there’s a nice empty space to fill.

Hi, can you please put me down for 1 too? Thanks

I just cut copy and send them in a pm to Boaz. Wonder how many people know that they can send PM’s to themselves?

I don’t read them ... now I’m wondering if I can block pm’s from that lunatic ?