Sometimes bigger is better. And sometimes the bigger ones are just… huge. That’s the word that comes to mind when you look at YouTuber Glarses’ latest DIY mechanical his keyboard and price it. As long and expensive as he is tall.
As you can imagine, mechanical keyboards with buttons large enough to comfortably press with multiple fingers are pretty rare. The budget peripheral maker’s Redragon has one that’s actually 1.9 feet long, 7.95 inches deep, and 2.33 inches tall that you can actually buy. Google is also playing with a long keyboard with a prototype of his Gboard Stick Version from Google Japan, which is 5.25 feet long. And Razer, the inspiration for the Glarses build, showed off a giant tenkeyless (TKL) keyboard with his working RGB switches at his CES.
But despite all that chassis, none of these jumbo boards could incorporate a traditional numeric keypad. Glarses’ giant keyboard, on the other hand, was made with a giant number calculator in mind.
As detailed in videos discovered by sites such as Review Geek and Dexerto, Glarses’ custom keyboard includes 3D printed case parts assembled together with a friend, as well as scaled PCB and 3D It included a giant printed keycap.
Like Razer’s giant keyboard, Glarses’ DIY cracker uses 110 NovelKeys’ (pale blue) Big Switches. Each switch in the Big Switch series features 64x the volume of its predecessor Cherry MX switches and an MSRP of $18.
“Soldering a giant switch is exactly the same as soldering a small switch, only ten times as long,” says Glarses.
As if carrying parts of a giant keyboard case wasn’t enough, Glarses lubricated each switch. It reportedly took 10 minutes to open each. This shows how important clean-sounding, smooth keypresses are to keyboard builders.Glarses used a 100 g (3.5 oz) Krytox GPL 205g0 for this task. said.
That said, this oversized peripheral may still have some rattling or loose keys. , said, “I feel really bad.” So the spacebar is the only key for a completed build with a stabilizer. The spacebar is longer than your average TKL keyboard, so it’s no surprise that the extra stability was called for.
According to the video, the manufacturing, shipping, and import costs go up to “around” £12,000 (about $14,000), a build price that’s about the same as the peripheral itself. For those who assume it did, Glarses claimed he paid for this at his YouTube company’s personal expense because two sponsors dropped out mid-build.)
Glarses’ video shows the keyboard in action, and he’s even used it in a few gaming sessions.
You can see the Glarses monster keyboard in action in the video below.
