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No progress currently, the project is not dead it is just on hold - too expensive (time and money wise) to pursue at the moment.

I am considering creating a new HHKB wireless PCB since the HHKB is still my main board. I'd get a hasu controller but it seems the battery life is poor from a ...

Dude, you are a hero!

I asked this question on /r/mk and was told it was impossible to have a custom Topre keyboard and then I found this, wow.

Do you mind if I ask you if you would do a custom HHKB with rgb leds and how much it would cost?

That should be possible using the RGB realforce, not a ...

I have put together a guide which people may be interested in:

https://github.com/tomsmalley/custom-topre-guide

It's based on work I have done on my projects I've posted here. I hope to get more people hacking these together, and want to update that repo to become a more cohesive guide as time ...

Although I said nothing until now, I find this a fascinating project - not sure how much money I can through in the game, but (depending on what you will come up with), I want at least those PCBs :)

PCBs will be the most expensive part by far I think. Expensive components!

Yes, really impressed ...

Parts all came!

http://i.imgur.com/FGWLH4c.png

http://i.imgur.com/gKIsNRT.png

http://i.imgur.com/JIPcjrR.jpg

I am experiencing an undesirable squishing sound on releasing keys, not sure what is causing this. To some extent I have experienced this on real Topre boards, but not this bad ...

vvp wrote: I was thinking about trying Atom for a keyboard firmware

I too have had this thought, but I don't have the time to commit right now unfortunately. Looking forward to seeing your progress limeburst.

I think the case should be simplified to just being the plate suspended above a piece of acrylic:



I don't know man...I think you were onto something with the prior design...the classic HHKB empty plastic on the wings of the lower row just has something magic. Plus I am not a fan of floating ...

I use a Jack Humberts QMK and heavily customized my Ergodox EZ. So, I speculating that I can somehow get this to work with your board, too… somehow…. I have the feeling I will have to read a lot, but I imagine the community will help out here and there. Being able to customize my keyboard layout ...

I have a slight problem in that moving forwards requires quite a significant investment of money in getting one off parts (and there's quite a few different pieces required). Looking at £600 for 1 keyboard. This was expected, but I haven't formulated a plan as of yet. I'm thinking of starting an ...

I am typing this message (well half of it) on the left hand PCB. Seems to work! Really I need to get the plates sorted now so I can actually use the keyboard since I'm currently just balancing the bendy plastic prototype plate on the circuit board, making it somewhat of a nightmare with springs ...

Aw wow, this is really interesting. Don't know how I hadn't seen it before. You don't happen to be bringing this to the London meetup? :D

Afraid not, it's a bit of a trek from where I am :)

Got my LED blinking today, just trying to get HaaTa's bootloader working now.

Edit 8th Dec:
Bootloader is ...

PCBs arrived and I have soldered all components, unfortunately I used one of the pins I need to pull up to use the debugger (didn't know it needed this). Not the end of the world, see photos for questionable hacks. Once I get the bootloader working I shouldn't need it anyway, but I will probably be ...

The right side PCB is almost done, when I am happy I'll send the two off to get prototypes along with plates so that the firmware can be fleshed out with a nice testbed.

Just picked up a 55g 87U, it seems Topre are trying to make my life difficult with their left control key having a rotated stem ...

Some progress on the split HHKB layout, I think it's a good layout for the fact of not needing anything but a standard Realforce (on that note, I'm now on the market for a 55g 87u in black).

Shows proposed tenting method, using 5 deg high density foam blocks (I want to try moulding some, but the ...

Just got my 35g ones and modded my HHKB. Images: https://imgur.com/a/wnmCZ

Im still Not sure whether I like it or not, although it feels lighter - 35g to 45g makes sense - it feels kinda cheap, as the bump isn't that pronounced.
Yeah, is it just me or is bottoming out more pronounced as well? It ...

I am becoming quite attached to the idea of a split HHKB:

excuse cheaply photoshopped legends
https://i.imgur.com/HlqJgXL.png
https://i.imgur.com/vMUosbJ.png

Anyone have any suggestions for the bottom row? There are an additional two 1U keys which could be added, but I like the HHKB style ...

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Edit: (previous title) Another custom split hand Topre board - need your input!

I've been thinking about a similar project to my ongoing one, that is much simpler (I need a split Topre keyboard in my life). I'm interested in it being more community oriented, with design decisions being influenced ...

I posted a quick interest check up on geekhack so I can make a more informed purchasing decision:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=84985.0

Cool project! How are you sourcing your Topre switches? I have 2 old Sony video editing keyboards after I harvested the caps off of them. May be the switches in them get to live another life.

I'm using Novatouch switches but any standard Topre switch should be okay, normal 1u switches are used ...

Hi everybody,

I'm new here, I'm looking for a technology which suppots MX Caps, it's for musical purpose then I need something with pressure sensing to acquire velocity. I need RGB light too.
I think capacitive is the best choice for me.
Now i need to draw and prototype it, this is just 16 inline ...

On the case design, what's your target as far as adjustability? I know that you were thinking about tilt and tent, and that the design isn't final, but it seems very flexible. In particular, I'm wondering if the ability to go so far as tilting the thumb cluster on its side, to press the thumb keys ...

Thanks for the kind comments, but please don't get too excited, I haven't even built the prototype yet! There could be big problems still to overcome. There is certainly a lot of work to do.


How will the discontinuation of the NovaTouch TKL affect the project? The NovaTouch provided good (if not ...

I mean you can use that package as a sanity check for your script, they also do a Linux version

7bit wrote: GNU Emacs

I tried to switch to emacs with evil mode just last week for a particular plugin. Ended up getting frustrated because I was rushing, so I ended up back in vim. Maybe one day...

No problem 8-)

I'm guessing you'll be using a laser cutting service, so the countersink will be a separate operation, but for one keyboard it shouldn't be too much. Just point out which holes need countersinks when you send them the files.

Depending on where you send it you will get different ...

As far as I know you won't be able to do that since it is a 3D feature and dxf is for 2D geometry. Generally I would put the hole diameter and then just call out the countersink in a drawing.

How do you want to get this manufactured? (what material and processes)

Looks to be fine:

This is what it looks like in eDrawings:



If I zoom in and look past the circles I can see the keyboard outline and switch cutouts, but there are lots of overlapping and broken lines:

whops! don't worry it happens to me all the F times! :D

That's good to know :lol:

There seems to be a solder bridge on some of the ICs pins in the bottom left picture.

That's an exposed pad where I accidentally scraped off the mask! Fortunately those pins are all tied to ground.

Some ...

Managed to solder the boards this morning, found I had made an error in the SMD socket pads for the teensy, see if you can spot the problem:

http://i.imgur.com/XMNY4Qn.jpg
Please forgive the messy soldering, it's my first time doing SMD
http://i.imgur.com/nVrLaym.jpg

Shifting the socket one ...