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Re:Building my first mechanical keyboard by prmoustache on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:50PM (#31459486)
There is no aggeessivity in my question.

I assembled many model kits and it never occurred to call myself a builder. Model kit builder concieve the kits and or create parts out of raw material, epoxy putty and/or 3d printing.

Similarly a bicycle builder will solder/bond individual tubes to build custom frame and fork, possibly custom stem and/or racks. A brand that source frame builts in Asia will but mount the ready made part will say "assembled in <insert the country>.

Maybe I am picky with semantics but it strikes me as arrangant to call ourself builders when we just pick up and assemble parts.

Re:Building my first mechanical keyboard by samatman on Saturday May 21, 2022 @02:53PM (#31460707)
Serious question: is English your first language?

There's no ambiguity here, the hobby is called model building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_building

Re:Building my first mechanical keyboard by ProZsolt on Saturday May 21, 2022 @01:33PM (#31459960)
But they selecting the individual components, buying them from different vendors, then assembling them to the final thing.

You can "build" a PC or a bicycle without creating any custom part, but the end result will be unique. A keyboard has less parts(board, switches, keycaps and maybe a controller) but I think it still count as built.

If you order everything as part of one kit, like the furniture from Ikea, then yes, you just assembling it together.

Re:Building my first mechanical keyboard by voussoir on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:46PM (#31462806)
For what it's worth, I feel the same way you do and very carefully chose the word "assembling" instead of "building" when I blogged about putting my keyboard together.