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Pluna wrote: 15 Aug 2020, 11:33 I have used the Amoeba King PCB to create a dactyl manuform with SK6812MINI-E on every switch.

Any chance you could share some pics?

If anyone knows a decent source for solid-core ribbon cable, that would be great.


I think this is a solid core product:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10646

These definitely are:
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/3m/3749-10-100/3M156019-100-ND/1107765
https://www.digikey.com/product ...

Loving the look of the Amoeba Royale & King!

Does anybody know if JLPCB will mount the SK6812MINI-E as a part of their service?

Thinking about ordering a set (or 10) of these sweet little units & it seems like right now it's go your own with a PCB manufacturer...

Wanting to use them with a few ...

Hi! Long time since I've been in touch.

I've had a few life hiccups the last 18 months- as a consequence my ability to think about moving forward with this has been on hold till now.

I have available a UK postal address, and I'm wondering how much it would cost for a set of pcbs with the ...

vvp wrote: Katy's controller and LCD can be put in the left hand side by just flipping the controller PCB and wiring the connectors a bit differently.

Just wanting to confirm here - it is really just the Palm print job that needs to be "flipped" for this, is that right?

will be looking into this a bit over the next few days!

I do have a question - my RepRap chap will be printing in PLA - do you think that's likely to cause any grief?

timing is quite good - month end will be done with tomorrow so I'll have a couple of weeks I can think about things at work without ...

OK.

I have bought the STL Files.

I jumped in on a Massdrop buy for gateron switches. And also for keycaps "Vortex Backlit PBT Doublshot".

I need to order a chip - planning to order the chip on a board I mentioned earlier. I also should probably order an LCD panel...

I will need to talk to the ...

vvp wrote: Heads up for kiltannen

Thanks for the heads up. While I hadn't yet started work on the electronics - I HAD downloaded the files - and wouldn't have re-downloaded them without this warning!..

So - it looks like this might be the best switch drop since I started following the Katy project...
Massdrop Gateron Buy

Clearly they will be more than enough units to do a whole Katy Kbd.

What do you think?

I'm very excited to see how the k80cs turns out.
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Anyway, keep up the good work... you've designed one of, if not THE most compelling "original" (not a modified ape of another open source design) keyboards in years. I dig the Maltron-ish key pitch/layout, the split halves, and the LCD for ...

On a different note - I have been trying to figure out keyswitches - and it seems like if I ordered 100 cherrys from WASDKeyboards.com that would cost approx USD $60 plus shipping. Do you have an idea if that would be a good price - or could I do better with trying to jump on a Massdrop?

I haven't ...

Ok, I'll try to get it out as soon as possible. <snip> Hopefully the next weekend (i.e. in about 14 days) :mrgreen: (I do realise you are offering to release the PCB designs in that timeframe - and haven't yet put a timeframe on the 3d files for the case.)

you want to do significant changes to ...

I asked the support guys if they can supply with headers on:
I don't normally install headers, so that the user can decide which side to mount them on. If you would like them soldered, I can do that (no charge). I also have angled headers in stock, if you need.

Seems like this would solve 90% of ...

Do you think this board here: https://www.mattairtech.com/index.php/development-boards/mt-db-x4.html would be an OK starting point?

I'm just a little bit concerned about doing the soldering after having a look at the chip in your pics. While I'm reasonably OK with the idea of a simple solder job ...

Do you think it would be hard to put backlighting under the keys?
The LEDs can be inserted into each switch housing. That is the easy part. Now there are two options:
All the LEDs lit the same way all the time the keyboard is powered - you can easily add this still using the PCB designed for v0 ...

Do you think it would be hard to put backlighting under the keys?

If I do go to the effort of building out a custom keyboard (And I'm FAST becoming unhappy :cry: with a standard kbd!) I think I would want the keys backlit - I use my PC a lot late at might - and would FAR rather have the light off ...

Hi - Massively impressive effort.

I am dead keen to make one of these - and probably end up with 1 at work as well.

The default definitions do not really matter since one can remap key positions easily using Prg-R <src> <dst> and the LCD shows small hints what needs to be done while remapping ...