75% ISO Grid layout keyboard, with a "hand made" acrylic case.

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Hermith

02 Jan 2016, 03:52

So I wanted to try a non-staggered keyboard, and I also wanted to try my hand at manually wiring up a matrix. So I got a plate lasercut through LeandreN's group buy, using this layout. I used Gateron blues I bought a long time ago through a group buy. I also finally invested in a decent soldering iron, a Weller WHS40, which was much better to work with than my previous cheap crap.

The case was made from 3mm acrylic blue sheet, "hand cut" and glued together with acrylic glue. Due do my lack of skills and not having access to proper tools the cuts were for the most part quite bad, so I'm not happy with the overall build quality of the case, more details on that in the build log. I'll probably sand down the acrylic even more and give it a couple of strokes of spray paint, which will hopefully remove some of the imperfections.

I just used some left over Granite caps as of now, if I got some alphanumerical and 4x 2u DSA I could use what I already have (rest of Granite is on a Ducky Mini Original). Anyway, here's the finished product:

Image

Build log:

Build log with small commentary on each step can be found here:

http://imgur.com/a/i3I4T

It's not very detailed (forgot to take photos).

"Why it iso tho?"

Take a look at my layout and compare it to this.

Because it the "ISO key" next to the LSHIFT that ANSI doesn't have. This also means that I un-stagger the keyboard the "other way" as compared to say a ErgoDox. This was a very important point for me as I use Dvorak, and on Norwegian Dvorak the "Ø" key is on the key right next to LSHIFT.

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aaron

03 Jan 2016, 10:49

Nice layout -- and build!

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bocahgundul
Sell me 5k please

03 Jan 2016, 13:37

that is a really cool board bro nice build

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