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Yeah, I'm ordering only the stuff in stock. Though I could join some multiple month (maybe even years) group buy if there would be keycaps suitable for Katy keyboard. Some DSA keycaps with legends. Or almost any keycap shape which would be the same for each row; e.g. all keycaps only DCS row2. And t...

Can you post a picture of the latest version you use?
I do not mean the layout. I mean the keyboard shape.

My experience is that if you are ordering what is in stock then it will come within few weeks.
You can set your address and email and send WASSUP message to his bot to see what is in stock.

Muirium, if you have some linux then:

• to get usb version:

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  lsusb -v 2>/dev/null |grep -E '^(Bus|  bcdUSB)'

• to get the bus speed:

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  lsusb -t

And maybe there are ports for OSX too.

My guess is that Murium confused Full Speed (12 Mb/s) with High Speed 480 (Mbit/s). Full Speed is still within USB 1.1 and the differential pair is still unbalanced (pullup on D+).

Do you intend to publish your schematic? I would like to look why so many parts (what they do).

The updated kicad files. The old tarball was pulled down. The changes are: add top level readme.txt for kicad files improve silk layer descriptions fix LED color labels on the PCB sil layer swap photoDrw/photoSns; less drill sizes; better stencils So everything to get the hardware done is available...

For the courageous ones: You can get the STL files of the case and try it on your FFF 3D Priter. Or your friends 3D Printer, or whatever you can get an access to. Start at this page: http://www.hck.sk/k80cs/ If you decide to try it then save the share-it order number. If I uploaded stl files of e.g....

If I would be buying an off-the-shelf keyboard for gaming then it would be kinesis advantage. Mouse in one hand and the other hand has a nice ergonomic access to 34 keys. You can remap the keys withing the keyboard if the game does not support defining custom keyboard controls. Back-lightning does n...

The invoice says To: nobody (--none--) \______________ Google Wallet, not PP!! If you are in Single Euro Payments Area then use SEPA transfer (PAYEUR). It is the cheapest way to send money in EU. And it is reliable and not too slow (at most 3 days). It costs me only 0.02€ to send money to any other...

These shipped today: ... 0816 ... This package did not arrive. The previous one arrived ok. Is there an option for a more reliable shipping service? This package arrived at the end. The only thing to remember is that it can take almost a full month till a package arrives. Even when the destination ...

I talked about getting raw printouts from an FFF reprap printer. It should be possible to get these cheaply (definitely compared to shapeways). Here are some examples what the delivered parts would look like: rawKeyPartTop.jpg rawKeyPartBot.jpg rawPalmPartBot.jpg These were printed with ABS on a rep...

Awesome project. I really like what you've done with this, and can't wait to try printing. If you need someone to prototype prints, let me know. I have a Lulzbot Taz4 (295x275mm bed) and can print ABS/PLA. Thanks, I have a printer here. I'll try to print the last version this weekend (or the next w...

Errara: PCB stencil layer: Yellow and Green LED marking on stencil layer were swapped. The LED part numbers were correct. The schematic was correct too.

7bit wrote: ↑These shipped today:
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This package did not arrive. The previous one arrived ok.
Is there an option for a more reliable shipping service?

Sure. I did not update the files on the web yet. I'll post when it is done. The only expected change is swap of photoDrv with photoSns.

Heads up for kiltannen (and maybe others who started to work on electronics ... if any). It is probable there will be a new version of kicad files for the electronics. We realized that we should be able to limit the initial photo-transistor current in direct sun with the FET transistor which control...

Would it be possible to get an estimate from shapeways on the STL files before they're published? I'm curious to know ballpark what it'd cost from them. Ok, I uploaded the right side of the case to shapeways and the prices are: top part of the case (*) is 93.96$ (1.5 labor, 25.9 volume, 66.56 machi...

I have them too from this geekhack/deskthority group buy. It also achieved the cheapest price for this switch kind (0.16$). There are links to some reviews from the group buy. I did not put them into any keyboard yet. They seem fine at first look. I'll know more when I built some keyboard from them....

This is mostly for kiltannen and possibly others who want to look at it even in parts (instead of waiting for the complete drop). You can download the kicad project files here . The files were crated with: kicad-bzr, version r5648-1; build date Sat 09 May 2015 02:16:01 PM CEST. Reasonably recent git...

Phe! Lefties have it better! They can use mouse with left hand and have quick access to arrows, enter, Shft-Insert, Ctrl-Insert, Ctrl-Delete ... and the whole Numpad with right had! That is the reason I started to use mouse with my left hand despite being right handed. And do you want to get some re...

I discussed jacobolous' thumb cluster quite a bit with him in his thread on geekhack. I think it is better for a flat keyboard. I think that for a contoured keyboard the maltron like thumb cluster is better. Here is the main idea of my reasoning (at least that is the way it works for me): With prope...

The case STL files will be about a week or two after the PCB files. But maybe I'll try to post some kicad files sooner (since you do not need PCB then it does not need to be polished (especially the stencil layers)). But at least you will see the schematic and you can create your BOM. And you can mo...

Ok, I'll try to get it out as soon as possible. Maybe in parts and not all at once. So that you can look at it. Unfortunately, as for as the case, I want to print one more copy before the release. KKO's v0.7 is working as a keyboard with remap. Macros, LEDs, photo sensor are still not enabled there....

Do you have plans to release this killer keyboard in the market? Like selling a finished keyboard in a nice box with 2 years of warranty and everything? There does not seem to be enough interest for that. We can do it but so far it does not look plausible. The point is this does not make sense to d...

Do you think this board here: https://www.mattairtech.com/index.php/development-boards/mt-db-x4.html would be an OK starting point? It is one of the best breakout boards I have seen because it is very configurable. Almost everything can be disconnected using jumpers and that is what you would need ...

If you are willing to build more or less your custom case and you do not need VM programs then your firmware will probably easily fit into 28 kiB of FLASH and in such a case you can even use some common controller sold on a PCB (like Teensy 2.0 or ArduinoMicro). Here is a nice list of free firmwares...

Yes, the new Kinesis Advantage should be better. The rubber keys will be replaced with the real ones, and firmware will be upgraded. Some other changes may be there too but I do not know about them. I do not care that much about the rubber keys. I do not use function keys often. Even in Katy, they a...

My order arrived yesterday.
Enough to build one Katy keyboard from each switch kind.
Then I'll know which switch I like the most

Good news! Other people are making their own contoured keyboards. Hopefully we get much more projects like these.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=71263.0
https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-cave/