deskthority

Man, you're still at it
Looks great!

Nice updates. I'm no longer a proponent for different alignment of horizontal rows, but I still love this board. It's the Kinesis killer.

It's still the same exact shape as the first picture up there, it just uses Matias switches now instead of those green duckies.

6 months later, and I'm liking these Matias clickies more. A blast of air fixes the issue when they start registering double clicks, and that hasn't been needed in a while. I _love_ having the numbers all on the left hand. It is just awesome for coding. Right now I couldn't be any happier with this ...

The screen lock is via custom software running in the background of windows that forks input to the appropriate network computer. The keyboard's firmware does already send an immediate signal when a key is pressed and checks for that signal more than once per millisecond, regardless of whether anoth...

What games do people macro strafe jumps in? In q3a that would be sacrilege. Honestly, I don't think there's ever going to be a bowl-shaped keyboard that will be streamlined enough for any mainstream attention. After owning/using them for a while, you kinda forget just how alien they look to someone ...

http://i.imgur.com/zUw6daF.png Above is the layout I moved to after months of tweaks. I ended up much preferring having to shift my hand ever so slightly up to use the arrow keys than to use secondary layer. The screen lock is true to its name, locking my mouse (tablet) cursor inside the current co...

Looks incredibly functional. Unfortunately functional doesn't garner the same internet response as sleek, now does it?
You miss having a dedicated F-key row?

What CAM are you using for your plates?

Sorry it was pretty disgusting (used) and got thrown in the trash.

Welp, I'm learning why the 1087 was rightly considered a cheaply built keyboard. These switches are not very reliable. Individual switches like to start to report multiple hits, and it's not from the common mechanical bounce that can be solved via firmware. I don't know if this is a problem common t...

Looks great, very neat wiring job.

This is my favorite bastard child to date.
How are you liking the current thumb cluster? Are you able to hit all buttons easily without pressing two at a time?

And for a 3d printer noob, how long does it take to print that whole thing out, and what is the cost of the ABS material?

If you’re doing a bunch of keycaps at once, maybe using a 1.5mm (or 1/16") drill bit to drill the center of the cross for each stem would speed you up somewhat. You should be able to plunge a lot better with a drill than with a very skinny end mill. This is something that people like to do with met...

Most people use the top edge of a ball mill to do the stepped profiles to get closer to the desired shape and have less to hand sand. It can work well with wood since it's a bit more forgiving than plastic. What did you do? It looks incredibly smooth already for not having been sanded. I use Sprutca...

Here's a visual http://i.imgur.com/H5E64WC.jpg The very same thing obviously applies to ball mills, which is why I try to avoid them when working in soft materials like acrylic. You are likely to get a better finish doing small steps with a square end mill like I did with the sharkskin key caps than...

If you want to post on CNCzone and not get snubbed, you better quit calling them bits :) I've had good luck with Niagara, YG, and Precision Twist end mills. I'm still in the process of evaluating Richards Micro and Lakeshore carbide to see if they are any better/worse. I've had some really bad chine...

Hmm that might be pretty useful then. Apparently you can melt up your own machinable wax with just paraffin and plastic bags/LDPE. I feel like my IQ decreases every time I get a sniff of melting plastic though, so I won't be trying that.

Nope. Is that firm enough for actually protoyping or is it just to test your toolpaths?

Agreed. I was having fun pushing the machine to the limit and seeing how fast I could still get quality finishes. I use compressed air with a mineral oil mist for cooling, lubing, and chip clearing, which helps in that regard. For best results I'd slow it down slightly.

2 flute or 1 flute? I've been doing my acrylic cuts on the high end of the recommended SFM, 600 f/min. Getting very smooth cuts at 18.5k RPM w/ a 2 flute uncoated end mill .125" dia at 90 IPM. By two 1.5mm paths do you mean the depth of cut? That'd be a .06" DOC, and I've been limiting myself to .02...

Zekromtor wrote: ↑Looks like a nice edge finish, I'm assuming you didn't have to polish/flame the edge after. Are you using a single flute routing bit designed for plastic? What RPM?

^ don't leave me hanging man. Give us more specifics!

+1 to switch stuff not taking as long as you'd think. I opened, ultrasonic cleaned, dried, reassembled 90 alps switches recently and with some proper TV in the background it wasn't painful at all.

Great project, and great looking keyboard. Tell us more

Yes they are the XMs off a 1087, hard to tell in the overexposed pic, but they are green. I could go on a rant about that keyboard... how they kinda screwed up making it so cheap when they could have put some more money into solid components and marketed the alps clone keyboard more properly as a hi...

I'm starting to really love these switches. There's never any mental pause where you're wondering, "did I hit that sequence in the right order, better look." and it results in faster typing.

Well I'm giving this keyboard another try. The bottom rows now can be pressed properly now that I have an extra 3/4" pad on the palm rest, but still going to require the usual tweaking to get the palm rest, tenting, etc dialed in to where my hands like it. I just shouldn't have made such a snap judg...

I agree with all you've said. About the bottom row aggressive tilting as well, I'd like to try that. It will require a substantially higher palm rest, and it already needs some significant changes in that department. Do you know anyone currently using one of those datastealth type keyboards where yo...

What do you currently type on? And are you a hand floater or do you type with your palm planted? What works best depends greatly on that, and I'd agree that a classic typist that floats their hands will prefer a keyboard with keys that are more uniformly orientated unquestionably. I'm not convinced ...

Looks like a nice edge finish, I'm assuming you didn't have to polish/flame the edge after. Are you using a single flute routing bit designed for plastic? What RPM?

That would be more like the Kinesis layout, and for whatever reason my fingers don't like making use of the bottom row much in that case. I mixup the bottom two rows way too often and it's a mess. I specifically moved the home row down to avoid that issue, with only one step to reach the bottom row....