The King of Splits | SP-111 Mechanical Keyboard Review
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- The SP-111, designed by BlindAssassin111 is a sandwich mount, split southpaw keyboard-this is one of the more unique keyboard I've seen around. It's quite rare to find a full-size keyboard in the custom mechanical keyboard hobby, and for good reasons (material & CNC costs, lots of wasted space, etc.) While the SP-111 isn't a traditional full-sized keyboard, it basically has all the keys of one, but more compacted. And the fact that it has a left-handed numpad makes it great workflows that requires both the mouse and numpad.
Today I'll be building a black SP-111 with Boba U4 Silent Tactile Switches and GMK Metropolis.
0:00 Intro
0:27 Keyboard Overview
1:57 CF vs Brass Typing Test
2:16 Keyboard Building
3:57 Typing Test
5:02 Keyboard Thoughts
6:55 Conclusion
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Nice build and review!! The via issue from what I can tell might be on their end which basically means we can't fix it without them doing the work as it isn't open source. 😢 Hopefully we can get this fixed soon though.
Why hello there! And thank you. Good to know about the issue with VIA, luckily it's not a terrible workaround.
I had the same issue with Via but I figured it out pretty easily. I flashed the pcb on QMK Toolbox, then I realized if I changed the split backspace to both delete that would do the trick.
Endgame work keyboard for sure, thanks Assassin
Any chance this board is brought back for another group buy in the future?
@@JarkOff the designer said it will likely have an r2
I also have a black Sp-111 with Bobas, durock stabs, and the space cheese mat. We are twinning hard my friend! Great vid
Super underrated channel, enjoyed the vid!
Heck yea! A perfect way to wrap up the end of the year!!!
Thanks Albert, here's to 2021! 🎉🎈✨
Thanks for the video!
Sweet! A full sized split mechanical keyboard! I finally found one! I can't wait!
annnnd it's $500... of course it is...
And sold out 🤣
Great vid
awesome video! i'm really interested in picking this up in the extras. How is the typing experience?? Standard top mount??
Thanks! It's a standard sandwich mount, not much to say other than somewhat stiff.
damn those keycaps are nice.
Great video! Are the carbon fiber plates still available for purchase? I just got my e-white version and want to switch to cf plates as well.
prototypist.net/ had a GB for CF plates, but I don't think it's available anymore. I have no idea where else to get custom plates, but you could prob do a search for laser cutting services and provide them the plate file. github.com/blindassassin111/SP-111_Plate_Files
@@jimmynguyen973 Thank you, man
Hey man, i dont know if you will see this but is there any kind of split keyboard where it splits after the 60% so if I want all the function keys and num pad i can attach but if i dont want them then i can take it apart to save space?
I don't know any 60% keyboards like that, but the closet thing I can think of is us-mountainggshop.com/products/everest-max
But the easiest way to reach your goal is to get a separate numpad at the expense of having an extra cable on your desk & to your PC. As for function keys, I would depend on layers for those.
@@jimmynguyen973 thanks man, that's kinda what I'm in the process of doing now. I have a glorous gmmk and i just bought BDN9 and I'm going to build that and just use that as a macro pad to fill for the lost keys I lose with 60%
@@parzival6777 It's not gonna be an exact match, but honestly check out the Quefrency & Sinc keyboards by Keebio, I have a Sinc 75 myself and I love that thing & Keebio just added new acrylic cases for both of those kits, P3d store has some really cool cases you can order for both of them too but the Quefency is a split 65% (or 60 can't remember) and the Sinc is a 75% but would highly recommend checking them out as they are really cheap but really good with lots of customization
where can i get one?
Did you have any issues trying to flash your sp-111 in qmk? I have been trying for almost 3 hours and no luck. I keep getting the “Device not present” message when i hit flash in qmk toolbox. I got the hex file from via, have the latest drivers for qmk and still nothing.
i didnt get any issues like that. unfortunately im not sure what the issue can be other than something driver related.
@@jimmynguyen973 was able to finally solve it, i have so many keyboards set up on my pc I couldn’t narrow down all the old drivers for this one so since i never collected it to my laptop, connect it there and was able to flash it in QMK with the VIA file and it worked like a charm. 3+ hours of pure confusion and anger just to do it within like 3-5 minutes on my laptop haha
A e s t h e t i c 😍
DId you have issues with the right shift and right stab? It seems you have them oriented the same direction with the bar facing south. at czcams.com/video/q1k2DjRnZLI/video.html --- Durock V2s seem too big, My Durocks hit each other so i had to swap out a zeal stab just for enter, but still kinda contacts the shift stab. So i get a crooked enter key.
Hmm that's interesting, I have no issues with that stab. Could go for the shorter right shift + 1u key layout so you don't have to use the right shift stab.
@@jimmynguyen973 Dude great idea!! Thanks will do that instead!
Need!
what program did you use to edit the hexfile? i only know the online qmk conf.! you have a link or a name?
I used VIA, you can download it here caniusevia.com/ and find the firmware file here (viktus_sp111_via.hex) caniusevia.com/docs/download_firmware. You have to flash the keyboard with the VIA firmware before its detected in VIA
@@jimmynguyen973 How did you flash the Hex in Via?
@@MegaDipster I used QMK Toolbox for the flashing part
@@jimmynguyen973 thanks man !!!! i had to hit the reset button , and qmk finally worked.
Did you get both black and blue?? The navy one looked awesome in the renders but then seeing in that metallic teal makes me more upset I missed out on this GB so I'm so upset haha looked on mechmarket and not ready to dish out $700+ on one of these yet, maybe they'll release extras or a v2 run in the near future, cust I need one yesterday, this layout would be perfect for work. Build looks great btw man
Thanks! And no i only got black. I dont think extras have been released, so you can still get one
Extras are coming out feb 11th
@@jimmynguyen973 literally right after seeing your video checked my emails and there was one from TKC stating the extras. I'm hoping they do the captcha when checking out like they did for the islander set so that bots don't buy these things up in a heartbeat & i'm praying there's not a lot of people who care for this layout, probably wishful thinking haha but man I just want one of the blue ones so bad since they really did turn out more of a metallic teal which I actually like better, so fingers cross I can snag it in that or really any other color at this point. Where did you get your plate too by the way? I really like using polycarb or Fr-4 plates for soldered builds for the sound vs brass and aluminum and that poly with the mirrored numpad like that is perfect
@@erikvasauez9361 I don't think many people will be interested in this layout so the chance will be higher, but who knows how many extras there are. I got the plate from a GB that was ran before it shipped out, but the plate files are released so you can send them to someone to cut 'em out for you github.com/blindassassin111/SP-111_Plate_Files
@@jimmynguyen973 Lol, I think extras sold out in under 2 minutes
Do you think they will ever do a rerun or something?
im not sure, but you can join this discord for updates if it ever reruns discord.com/invite/4w6aUKb
I've got one unbuilt just waiting for me to not be lazy
love everything except the numpad. just can't get used to it
I should stop watching these videos. I've already spent too much. But damn those artisans look good. I skipped out on them. They're for much later