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Hi 7bit.. I just paid an invoice for some R5 leftovers, including some 4u space bars. With this order, can you please send the black 1/! key that was missing from the prior shipment and (if you can) a 4u stabilizer wire?

Think about the historical context in which rights are asserted. It's a principled assertion against the status quo that leaves no room for negotiation. Hey England, these are our unalienable rights , so go f yourselves! You want me to ratify this constitution? Not until you agree to my bill of righ...

There are also some MX-compatible sliders in development.

I find myself wanting to redistribute the nominees for DT Award, Lifetime Achievement, and Forum Contributer into the various categories. Should have thought about that before Round 2! :? Maybe for next year, the winners from the other categories could go up against the nominees for DT Award for the...

There are on-demand book printing services that I think would be affordable, even if the quantity is low. I can offer to help with typesetting. It would be cool to see a chapter on the progress the community has made in recent years toward resurrecting the craft of building mechanical keyboards and ...

Another Ping! award nomination coming for the Deskthority Awards next year?

The force touch trackpad on recent macbooks is pretty cool.. nice tactile feedback for pressing on a stationary surface.

HaaTa's find of Cherry 01APBSW switches: http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/the-o ... 11362.html

Their action looks really sweet.

I also nominate Muirium for his photos, advocacy, and for welcoming newcomers to DT (which I'm of the impression he does out of enthusiasm for the community and not merely in an admin capacity).

Maybe damped Cherry MXs, though I don't know if they're even available yet.

How about:

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Here are some pictures of the latest batch. I got bored designing an actual keyboard for these so have spent too much time tweaking the PCB design in KiCad. :lol: There is a prototype version of the 2u board, though I need to find some Cherry PCB-mount stabilizers to test the fit. Also, I've widened...

One particular obstacle is the Gerber format, which only allows drawing straight segments and circular arcs for traces. You can get closer to a hand drawn look if you render the traces in SVG using Bézier curves. Then the SVG can be imported into KiCad as a footprint / module by approximating the c...

Hi 7bit, Welcome back! Can you let me know if you have cherry stabs in stock? I'm waiting to pay the invoice on round 5 leftovers in case they can be combined into same shipment. Thanks.

7bit, are Cherry stabilizers in stock?

Maybe https://www.mturk.com

bpiphany.. Thanks for all the great advice (and debugging) on the pretty format! I started writing the code but then realized the version of KiCad I have on Linux is pretty old and will only read the legacy format. I've committed the following changes based on your suggestions: Fixed missing (layer ...

There didn't seem to be a good way to get vector graphics into Pcbnew, so I wrote a small utility that uses an existing SVG library to read files, and then writes them out as KiCad modules. It seemed generally useful so I put it on github . It should let you make something like this: svg2mod-dt.png ...

If using a mcu on a break-out board, the size, shape, and how it can be mounted are also important. Some of these other features may be more or less standard items: Hardware support for TWI/SPI are important for talking to other devices (or the other half of a split keyboard). A UART suitable for ta...

Awesome. Just one 4u wire for a Cherry stabilizer would be great, thanks. :D I think those are simpler than Costar wires, right? I could attempt to bend 50-100 wires but I have no experience with it. Under what conditions do Cherry stabilizers require the indent in the middle? It seems like the shor...

Is there a source for stabilizer wire for the 4u/4.5u space bars? How difficult are they to make?

Added updated renders to the first post, including a possible wide version to support Cherry stabilizers (and move the mount points further out to support Costar stabilizers). Does anything need to be done special for Alps stabilizers? I think the wiki said some Alps boards use Cherry stabilizers. I...

Greystoke.. The bot sent me an extra black Q. It's yours if you want it.

It seems like the base PCB is nearing completion. I'll probably do one more small order to verify the final design. Meanwhile, I've shared the design on OSH Park , and the latest kicad files are on github . I'm planning to make a variant PCB for switches that require stabilizers, and maybe the MX lo...

It's probably best to produce a variant of the PCB specifically for MX lock switches, if you want LED support. Enabling support for LEDs on both MX lock and non-lock using the same PCB would, I believe, require the addition of two solder bridge jumpers. There are issues with through-hole diode, beca...

Hmm not that I know of. There is a keyboard currently in development I believe that lets you plug in whole switches and LEDs without soldering. So maybe a single key PCB version of that would be a start and then use a system of jumper wires to connect the matrix?

Prototypes are in! Actually I've had 'em for a while but have been super busy. Only had a small run of 6 made, but you can start to see how they would wire together as a matrix: amoeba-2.jpeg amoeba-1.jpeg Note you only need one set of connecting wires for the switch matrix. The double wires going b...

What if you spaced everything out more instead of bringing the T in?

50% looks good. Where's the poll?

Do we want to do AL T while we're at it? It's a little less egregious but once you notice it..