![]() ![]() The plate was manufactured in both black and pink variants for this release. The plate is a fully custom design manufactured from ABS plastic (the same material as most or all of the Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional line) that incorporates the slider housings, so the kit is complete when combined with a compatible keyboard. The Heavy Grail is a Happy Hacking housing that comes in three aluminum variants (K2, a textured white finish Aperture, a heavily-textured grey finish and Sunset Blvd, a matte pink finish) as well as a stainless steel model (Veracity Steel). They're known for unique, high-quality keyboard housings utilizing uncommon finishes and designs. that produces, among other things, "high-end, holy-grail machined metal housings for computer keyboard modders." ( source) is an industrial design studio run by Ryan Norbauer. That hasn't stopped a small community of aftermarket case designers from attempting (and recently succeeding) in creating custom cases, mainly for the Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2 ANSI line. The cost of machining a case with integrated plate and housings is astronomically high.Stock HHKB cases integrate the plate and slider housings into the case itself, and OEM slider housings and plats are not sold separately.This is due in part to a couple of reasons: The size and bottom row layout inspired the compact design of the Happy Hacking Keyboard.Aftermarket housings are a relatively recent innovation in the HHKB world. The M0110 was introduced with the original Macintosh computer. Apple M0110Īpple Macintosh M0110 ISO layout - click to expand ( source) Note the positioning of the Esc, Ctrl, \ / |, ~ / ` and Del keys, borrowed for the HHKB layout. The Sun Type 3 keyboard was introduced with the Sun 3/80 desktop workstation. The HHKB Professional series also includes volume-control keys, functional when supported by the user's operating system. This includes the F1 - F12 keys, the keys found in the navigational cluster ( Up, Down, Left, Right, Page Up / Page Down, Home / End), Print Screen, Caps Lock, and others. ![]() Given the reduced number of keys, most additional functions are found on the Fn (function) layer, accessed by pressing the Fn key to the right of the Right Shift key.In place of the ANSI backspace, the \ / | key and the ~ / ` keys are located in the upper right-corner.The Del key is located where ANSI keyboards feature the \ / | key, and acts as a 'forward-delete' by default (all HHKB models feature DIP switches that allow the user to change this to a Backspace key).The Ctrl key is located where ANSI keyboards feature the Caps Lock key, similar to the Sun keyboard layout).The Esc key is located where ANSI keyboards feature the ~ / ` key (useful for vi/vim users).Unlike most commonly-available keyboards, the Happy Hacking Keyboard features the following major layout differences: In the above images, functions printed on the 'front' of the keycaps are accessed via a key combination of the Fn key and the corresponding key.įor example, to use the Page Up function, the user would press Fn L. Throughout the history of the HHKB, the ANSI and JIS layouts have not changed between series. The form-factor and layout is inspired by a combination of multiple historical keyboard layouts, including the original Macintosh keyboard and the Sun Type 3 keyboard. ![]()
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