Every year or so, I foolishly think "I need a video game controller" and go buy one and it only lasts a few months before I decide one of us has to die, and I have the screwdriver so I win

Never buy an electrical without a power switch, and that goes double if it has a battery, and triple if it has LEDs

This thing should come with a thick black fabric bag to keep it in because IT IS ALWAYS FLASHING SOME LIGHTS

I'm quite impressed with the battery life, at least

How do you design a device with 4 colored lighting modes and not just out in a simple 5th: TURN OFF THE LIGHTS

I'm not joking when I say this is an accessiblity issue: I have ADHD. This is a device that won't stop flashing lights.

This shit shouldn't be allowed

Look I make bad computer peripherals ON PURPOSE and even I, creator of both Tooth and Hair keyboards (and I have fake blood waiting for the next one), consider it a design too horrible to be released on an unsuspecting public

I want mechanical keyboard fans to pay for what they've done and I wouldn't even imagine building a device this detrimental to attention spans

WHERE IS THE CEO OF RGB LIGHTING I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS TO ASK

I unscrew the first screw in the handle and immediately bright blue light spills free from it. This thing doesn't have lights, this thing is full of light and it escapes through any seams or holes in the containment vessel.
I'm doing surgery on an angel here and I don't expect them to survive it

(I'm a pope, so that's okay)

@foone at least that's a LED and not some cesium powder (but if it is, god of choice help us all)

My camera is having trouble photographing the true glory of this device, it's all BE NOT AFRAID and I'm looking like Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments after he meets God. My skin is leathery and sunburned, my beard white, my eyes blinded by the things Man was not meant to see

I have reached the second most basic off switch: it no longer has a power source.

Also see this little switch here? Turns out it's an unmentioned-by-the-manual reset switch. That'll get it to stop blinking AT LEAST UNTIL YOU PRESS A BUTTON.

Here's the main chip. It's labeled "H001 A785263.1 2123#05" but I can find nothing for that.

BOOOO
this is an official Nintendo-licensed product and they're using ICs that fell off a truck? Shame.

The bluetooth module is a Hosiden HRM1086

@foone

@wolf480pl hey that's my fursona

I removed 6 of the 8 LEDs before I accidentally killed it

@foone stop trying to look inside a Vorlon encounter suit

@niarbeht never. I want to be in there

I think I just thwacked off a cap. I can probably fix it once I can solder again

@foone wait... can "normal" people ignore that or block it out? I assumed blinking shit would distract everyone.

@aksdb I have no idea, I've never met a normal person

@foone I am confused because my mechanical keyboards have obvious and easily accessible off states for lighting. Sorry for your uhh LEDs

@jemsu oh, sorry, I see how that's confusing. I don't hate mechanical keyboardists for the RGB lights, it's because of the everything else.

@foone lmao what, that seems like it could be a PY32F002A (the only ST-like part with a 002A that we know of)

@r interesting! thanks.

@foone Reminds me of my favorite Nexus Q photo. Top off and looking all evil supercomputer-y.

@foone I'm surprised there's not random white pixels on the screen given how it looks

@foone @r Looks spot-on (Puya Semiconductor PY32F002A-F15P6).
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/$0-11-py32f002a-m0-24mhz-320kb-actually-324kb-more-peripherals/
https://www.py32.org/en/mcu/PY32F002Axx.html

Maybe the reset button also acts as BOOT, so it'll put it into programming mode if you plug it into USB while holding the button?

@foone that blue bandgap is so efficient it's disgusting

@azonenberg @foone gamers demand only the spiciest cherenkov lighting

@foone all the gamer RGB shit is so bad, why is there lights on everything stop.

@neckspike
You can turn them off if you just install our shitty cloud-sign-in required software in your kernel and agree to 4 word soup ToS agreements that mention scanning your entire memory space and selling your info

@foone

@gsuberland @foone All I want for xmas is a good green LED.

@AMS @foone quaaaaid, close the greeeen gaaaap, save powerrrrr

@neckspike @foone Actually ... we'll need RGB support in kernel, at the very least for keyboards. So that we can turn it off by default :-).