 So I was invited to an event by Cutie Cinderella and during one of the breaks I sat down next to Beanans and Shroud. They started talking to me about a keyboard I built for Beanans a long time ago and how they actually really liked it. Hannah actually told me that they liked it so much that they kept typing on it because they liked the way that it sounded and felt. Now the next part to this is where it got interesting. For those of you that don't remember, Shroud had a massive collaboration with Logitech in October of 2021 for a keyboard. It was the first keyboard collab where they just straight up took a content creator's name and then put it on the product. The reason that's important because while they were telling me they liked the keyboard that I built for them, they were sad that they couldn't use it on stream. The reason for this is pretty obvious because if you have a collab with a company for a product and then you use a different product on your most visible platform, that might be an issue. And that is when Shroud hypothetically mentioned that he wishes that the keyboard that he used on stream sound and felt like the one that I built for Hannah. Logitech, in case you're watching this, this is all hypothetical. Shroud loves your keyboard. He would never change it. Now here's the thing. These keyboards that come from a major brand or anything that you can get from Best Buy or Amazon are always going to fail in comparison to a custom mechanical keyboard. Custom keyboards typically cost so much more because there is so much more that you can do with them. There are different materials, different switches, tons of modding options. But with pre-built keyboards, those options don't usually exist, usually. Now coming back to what Shroud said, I told him, you know what's actually possible for that to happen, to which he responded. Yeah, but it would probably take an unreal amount of time. No, I could probably do that in about three hours. So this is what we're doing here today. Bloodline Heroes of Lightness is a card-based fantasy RPG where you can not only collect champions, build kingdoms, but you can also create legendary heirs of your houses by combining the forces of various bloodlines, such as orcs, lichens, demons, and dragonborn. There are a bunch of different things to do in the game. You can choose your path by raising heirs with true companions from a vast fantasy world. Customize your champions by marrying different bloodlines until you find a unique combination of any five powerful abilities out of dozens of traits that suit your own need for gameplay. You also get to build your own kingdom and economy. The best part is the game is available on both Android and iOS. 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I don't know if it would work long term or ruin your board long term, but I felt like doing it, so here we are. However, I did watch one of those nerd videos, and you will not believe the secret ingredient that it takes to make a keyboard sound better. Yup, that is glue all right. So there is a keyboard content creator named Keyboard, who is a part of a keyboard competition with other keyboard content creators, and they were all given cheap keyboards and incredibly small budgets to see if they could turn those cheap keyboards into something that sounded and felt like they were worth a lot more. Now, while keyboard didn't win for the best final product, he did create something that sounds just as good, if not better, than some of my $500 to $1,000 keyboards, which is kind of frustrating when I think about it. Sounds the best is keyboard D. Oh, wow. So what did he do? He put glue in his keyboard. But before you grab your Elmer bottles, let me explain. Now, if you watch his video, he will give you a perfect explanation for why he does this and why certain sounds make the sounds that they do. But essentially, by making the cheaper, thin keycaps artificially thicker with glue, he gets rid of a lot of the cheap and hollow sound that exists in almost every prebuilt keyboard. That's one of my biggest issues with Logitech, Corsair, Razer, or any of these other mass producing keyboard companies is that they don't put a lot of time or thought into the design or materials used for these keyboards, specifically when it comes to higher end sound or feel. That's why Cherry MX Reds and Blues are still even a thing. Don't get me wrong. Saying people don't get into custom mechanical keyboards, but if you're someone who plays video games, you probably spend a lot of time at your computer, right? If you drive your car a lot, it would make sense for you to get a nicer car. So why not do the same thing for people that spend time at their computer? Anyways, unfortunately, I can't just put glue inside of the keyboard. The entire point of this project is to make it look exactly the same while improving the way it sounds and feels. One of the challenges specifically with Stroud's keyboard is that if I were to just put glue inside of the keycaps, it would block out the RGB from shining through. Fortunately, they make see-through glue. The bad news is is that the video I watched to even learn about this, it didn't cover what actually happens when you type on a keyboard that uses glue. There's glue falling out. The problem is if it cracks out and falls out like that, almost like it's a cookie out of the oven coming out of like a baking sheet or something, then it's definitely gonna do that after use. Fuck, man. Just when I thought I figured everything out. So now I need to figure out something sticky that will stay hard without cracking. That sounded weird, resin. I'm not sure why I didn't think about this earlier. Resin keycaps are actually really popular in the keyboard world. I will warn anyone trying to replicate this. Before you get your breaking bat on, you will need to do this outside or in a well-ventilated room. I did neither. Not only does resin smell horrible, but I'm pretty sure it's poisonous to some extent, but it's only a little brain damage, so it's, you know. So after letting the resin dry, this is our final product. Okay, well, hold on. I did a couple other things. I put foam under the PCB. I lubed the plate stabilizers, put vinyl tape between the PCB and plate, and swapped the Cherry MX Reds together on Oil Kings. If you're new to keyboards and you really wanna know what the rest of that will do for your keyboard, or you wanna know how to do it, stop by my stream or join my Discord. The links are in the description and you can ask any of those questions there. This is our final product. Now, you might be thinking to yourself, wow, Chris, that was actually quite an improvement. What does Shrout think? I don't know, dude, it's in their mailbox. By the time you watch this, he's probably already tried it. Stop by my stream and ask me there, because YouTube comments are cringe anyways. But yeah, as you can see, we did fix his keyboard and for any of you that might wanna try this for yourself, check to see if your keyboard is able to be cracked open because you might be able to do it for you too. However, if you're really lazy and you don't wanna do any of that and you would rather just buy something that is already made really nice, I have been working on a project for the last year. A keyboard that I've been really, really passionate about that I've gone through at least four prototypes for now is almost ready and I'm actually going to be selling them for people in stock. The reason that's a big deal is because typically with really nice products in the custom mechanical keyboard world, you have to put in a group by order that you might receive years after you actually buy the product. If you want to know when I will be selling them, follow me on Twitter because I will be announcing it there very soon. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed the video and I will see you very soon in the next one with my incredibly consistent upload schedule. Goodbye.