From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 18/11/2025 17:39, Andy Burns wrote:   
   > Theo wrote:   
   >   
   >> Andy Burns wrote:   
   >> >> Theo wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> The 500/500+ keyboards run QMK on a RP2040.   
   >>>   
   >>> I keep meaning to try that on my Durgod K320, but it never feels like a   
   >>> good day to potentially brick my keyboard ...   
   >>   
   >> Backup keyboards are available...   
   > Well, yesterday I spilled half a pint of water* into my keyboard, so I   
   > had to disassemble the Durgod (which was a real bastard involving half a   
   > dozen lolly sticks and four credit cards) to dry it out.   
   >   
   Oh. many years ago I left a computer by an open window in Johannesburg.   
   And a thunderstorm soaked it through.   
   I simply let it dry out for a day.   
      
   > Before re-assembling it, I decided to risk flashing QMK, I have to say   
   > it was one of the least friendly flashing processes of any device I've   
   > ever done, but I got there in the end, without bricking it.   
   >   
   > The end result is impressive, it now allows me to do all the things I   
   > wished the Durgod customisation would have allowed at the time I bought   
   > the keyboard, but turned out to not be pssible.  The customised "layers"   
   > are all stored natively within the keyboard, not using any runtime o/s   
   > driver.   
   >   
   >   
   > [*] actually a salty electrolyte drink, which I figure could do worse   
   > things to the PCB than even a sugary drink?   
      
   Ah, so not water then?   
      
   In such cases simply submerge the thing in reasonably fresh water.,   
   shake it a bit and leave it to dry...   
   .   
   Water doesn't harm electronics that are not switched on...   
      
      
   --   
   It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house   
   for the voice of the kingdom.   
      
   Jonathan Swift   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)