Not All Linears Are The Same!
Figure 1: Not even all of these (mostly) KTT-made linears are the same! After all of my years of collecting, reviewing, and obsessing over switches, I can say with certainty that linear switches are the most misunderstood of all of the switch types. No, I’m not talking about mechanically either, as all of the claims of them “just going straight up and down” are somewhat kind of true. (Not too much though, don’t get that excited.) The part that is often misunderstood, though, is usually in what is being implied when people say that these switches just go straight up and down – “All linears might as well be the same.” If the title of this article didn’t make that obvious enough to you, I find that sort of idea to be completely and utterly wrong. The people who make these implications wouldn’t say that a Cherry MX Black is the same as a Novelkeys Cream switch? They also certainly wouldn’t ever claim that every Gateron-made linear is the same as every fancy TTC one out there...
May 29, 2024
There are four symbols of the holiday: The Moon, The Moon Cake, The Rabbit Moon and The Lion Dance.
Our childhood is filled with the memories of Mid-Autumn Festival. It inspires us to design and handcraft Mid-Autumn festival themes.
First, we worked with paper and pencil to draw the concept, then is tool and clay to make the prototype. Then cast the first keycap with resin, silicon. All of the keycap (except the moon cake) is hand painted, pieces by pieces.
The Moon Cake, always play an essential role in the Mid-Autumn Festival as a requisite treat. As a grown-up, we eat it together with family and friend.
The Lion Dance express joy, happiness and good luck. The Lion Dance also plays an important role in the consecration. We are not a great dancer like those who control the lion, but we can always get ourself a Lion head to celebrate the festival. Now we make a keycap with a shape of Lion's head.
The Moon Rabbit is a simple of the Festival as well, they live on the moon and appear in many folktales.
And lastly, under The Moon, we celebrate the festival with friends and family.
To celebrate with mechanical community, we create some artwork of the Keycap with the Mid-Autumn Festival themes. The model for photo shoots was made with paper, and Japan clay then paint it with brush and oil paint.