Baby’s First Alice! • CIDOO ABM066 Review, Sound Tests, VIA and Teardown Guide

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00:00 Keyboard Background
01:15 Design, Aesthetic, and Keycaps
02:51 Switches (Silent Blues and Mints)
05:00 Teardown and Construction
07:05 Software and Screen
10:18 Layout
13:33 Sound
15:57 Final Verdict
17:26 Outro
17:44 Extended Sound Test 1
18:06 Extended Sound Test 2
18:30 End Screen

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5 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 51

@esaedvik 26 дней назад

Alice is such a relief on the wrists. Helped me get rid of tennis/golf elbow issues too.

@realegt 4 месяца назад

Great vid, Caloy! That plastic is called PET. It is meant to reflect more of the mid and high-pitched switch sound back, essentially like PE. Together with normal PE foam, it makes the marbly sound crisper and more pronounced.

@beskydyk 3 месяца назад

Best review out there!

@Merrlin Месяц назад

This is very detailed thanks for the video!

@Sylveighty 4 месяца назад

After some research I found that the Cidoo Mints seem to be manufactured by Keygeek, which is also another relatively new manufacturer (they have the same shape for the bottom housing LED spot and they have those "teeth" like protrusions around the top housing.

@matthew_ferguson Месяц назад

That plastic film looks like a manufacturer's way of doing the HipyoTech press and seal mod. And that would explain why the tape mod didn't do much, the plastic film is doing a lot of the same as the tape mod would.

@CaloysKeyboards Месяц назад

Ohhh interesting. I really should look that up lol. Any other notable mods I should know about? Hehe

@NatergerMusic 3 месяца назад

great board but my shift key randomly turns on and stays on i think its either the plastic creating a short or the hotswap socket, cant get the json to load in either so im kinda stuck with a broken board at the moment until i can be bothered to resolder a switch in

@dooms8870 3 месяца назад

thank god for ur directions to open this board, i cant for the life of me open this pandoras box

@nguyenngochoa1981 4 месяца назад

Amazing vid! But which key is win key and key to change the rgb colors

@CaloysKeyboards 4 месяца назад

There's no win key mapped by default. You can assign it yourself using VIA. RGB hue, by default, can be changed with function plus left arrow and function plus right arrow, but again, you can change this using VIA.

@thisusedtobemyrealname7876 20 дней назад

About adaptability: With enough practice, you will learn to switch layouts on the fly with no issues. There is at least one typist on RU-vid (NoThisisJohn) that I've seen who can switch between Colemak, Dvorak and Qwerty on the fly without his wpm suffering at all. And those layouts require significantly more adaptation than an Alice layout.

@yber15 3 месяца назад

Great video! Two questions: does this keyboard work wired with the battery completely disconnected? And how good are the stock stabs? Thanks!

@CaloysKeyboards 3 месяца назад

Sorry for the late reply. Just got around to trying this and yes, it does work wired with the battery disconnected. Typing this on it right now. The stock stabs are perfectly fine. I didn't do any sort of tuning or re-lubing to them throughout the sound tests in this video. But I've also become so much less sensitive to stabilizer noises nowadays. I think most folks would probably need to re-lube them at least.

@yber15 3 месяца назад

@@CaloysKeyboardsThanks for trying it out and letting me know! :)

@1721maureen 21 час назад

maraming thank you for this!! you gained a subscriber in me. :)

@user-hz5xu9dj2p 4 месяца назад

When pressing caps lock button. Is it shown on OLED screen or Is there any part of the LED light that is on?

@CaloysKeyboards 3 месяца назад

Sorry for the late reply. It does display a little A symbol on the default screen when caps lock is on. The RGB does not do caps lock indicators.

@AddToCartED 25 дней назад

I ran the custom tool download to virustotal and it detects malware on it. Are you aware of this?

@cynvision Месяц назад

Late to this 'hobby' but not sure what the fuss is about key sound. I'd been under impression it was all about the switch activation for typists. And I was just looking for a smaller 'ergo' style keyboard. But I start to understand why they ship mushy silent switches as first choice. They know someone coming from a non-mechanical keyboard would understand how they feel and not freak out. I ended up with an Ajazz and glad I didn't end up with one of these because that mode key would have bothered me. But it does make finding key cap packages with two 2.75U spacebars hard. Switch making seems like a good gig these days with hobby builders wanting to try bunches of flavors.

@hotmintchoco 4 месяца назад

Hi! What are those keycaps at 10:31 ? They look so interesting

@CaloysKeyboards 4 месяца назад

Those are fabric stickers on some PBT blanks. They were sent to me for review by a company that eventually disappeared off the face of the earth. I have a video about it on my channel lol

@cyrusserrano2356 3 месяца назад

hello sir, can i remap the Fn key below the keyboard to another key using VIA?

@CaloysKeyboards 3 месяца назад

Yes, you should be able to.

@GibusGang 4 месяца назад

oh baby oh baby

@lego_minifig Месяц назад

This looks like an interesting entry point to Alice keyboard layouts, but the lack of a windows key is a complete dealbreaker for me. I navigate multiple virtual workspaces on my PC hundreds of times in a day. Not having that key would completely destroy my workflow.

@CaloysKeyboards Месяц назад

You can map it to a different key using VIA but then you'd have to get used to the new location 😊

@bruno3833 2 месяца назад

Did you remove that plastic before installing switches? I found odd this plastic and shiny foam without holes at the top of it. You need to press really hard to install switch.

@CaloysKeyboards 2 месяца назад

No, I left it on. Yeah, it's weird.

@bruno3833 2 месяца назад

@@CaloysKeyboards Had to reinstall almost every second switch

@pescador7320 Месяц назад

I bent about 7 pins, what a great option for a first mechanical keyboard i chose 😅thankfully i could straighten it back

@tubeboi2802 4 месяца назад

this thing was close for me. i don't understand why some alice kbs drop the win/opt key on the left.

@Skwashy0 4 месяца назад

its the layout that's called "ARISU" (japanese pronouncing of ALICE) that makes it that way haha its like a mix of alice and hhkb haha

@tubeboi2802 4 месяца назад

@@Skwashy0 so alice should be 3 modifiers on the left of the left spacebar and arisu should be 2 on the left and 1 on the right? i want more alice but they all seem to be arisu. but in reality, most of the reason i get alice is because of the split space bar.. can’t find split spacebar that is wireless and via compatible.. but at least i have 2 already. everything else is extra. thanks for the knowledge.

@Skwashy0 4 месяца назад

@@tubeboi2802 yes arisu is 2 on the left one on the right.

@bruno3833 2 месяца назад

Dont unserstand whatto do with JSON file. Installed program at 8:47, but not one at 7:10. Is that JSON?

@pescador7320 Месяц назад

This part is poorly explained in the video and if you werent paying attention you wouldnt hear what to do. You will put that json file in the VIA app, the via app is a website that works as a keyboard software.

@StyXyXy 3 месяца назад

Even in barebone version doesn’t have the screw to open the case??

@CaloysKeyboards 3 месяца назад

Yes the cases are the same.

@OgSwisszyed 2 месяца назад

Kinda shocking to find that the switch use the haimu/wuque cut out silent mechanism but i think this type of silencing mechanism should be more embrace by manufacturer

@LastSecBloomer 2 месяца назад

There are multiple silent switches with this kind of silencing tech - Haimu, Epomaker, Skyloong Glacier and Wuque Studio silents, for example. I'm not aware of any such switch that is that light on the press as the ones on ABM, though, and their look is not familiar to me... That design reduces mushiness a lot but has its drawbacks - unlike some standard silent switches with rubber inserts like Bobas, Shrimps or Outemus, these down't have silenced bounceback so they can be louder on upstroke.

@gameranters 4 месяца назад

12:23 name of keycap set?

@CaloysKeyboards 4 месяца назад

KBDFans NP Crayon

@comunicloud30 Месяц назад

Does it work on Mac ?

@CaloysKeyboards Месяц назад

Yes, it has a Mac mode.

@oliwierobb 2 месяца назад

for me, i absolutely hate the sound silent switches, they just sound like a membrane

@brainrottedindividual 2 месяца назад

i prefer louder keyboards as well, but my friends prefer me to use a quieter one. i can often hear myself clacking away in voicecalls, my current keyboard being super annoying to them. i might get this one for when i'm in calls or for typing at night. i'm pretty sure even my neighbor can hear me typing away.