deskthority

http://www.guru-board.com/
so sexy, minimalist layout, trackball...
well aborted project i guess

Let me guess, you're from geekhack?
I really wish you would have taken the time to research it before just spamming stuff we already know.
The miniguru project started at geekhack a LONG time ago...and most of us were there, giving input, hoping, waiting.
Anyways...here, this is for you:

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pyi3b/

ajx wrote:

I'm quite sure the next community keyboard (Phantom) will have the PCB ready for a track point.

7bit wrote:

ajx wrote:

I'm quite sure the next community keyboard (Phantom) will have the PCB ready for a track point.

'The light' seems to have run into a wall with the leds

In fact, Soarer and Hazeluff where so deep into discussing keyboard LEDs, that they had been eaten up by the R00tw0rm without noticing. I bet even in it's stomach they made technical drawings to further discuss the problem of making RGBY-LEDs for all switches possible.

7bit wrote:In fact, Soarer and Hazeluff where so deep into discussing keyboard LEDs, that they had been eaten up by the R00tw0rm without noticing. I bet even in it's stomach they made technical drawings to further discuss the problem of making RGBY-LEDs for all switches possible.

I was curious as to how they were planning to accomplish those traces. MUltilayered pcb's gets exponentially more expensive with more layers. And there is a limit to how many overpasses it is feasible to solder to make traces cross eachother. WIll be interesting to see where it pans out nonetheless.

7bit wrote:In fact, Soarer and Hazeluff where so deep into discussing keyboard LEDs, that they had been eaten up by the R00tw0rm without noticing. I bet even in it's stomach they made technical drawings to further discuss the problem of making RGBY-LEDs for all switches possible.

It's dark in here!

damorgue wrote:I was curious as to how they were planning to accomplish those traces. MUltilayered pcb's gets exponentially more expensive with more layers. And there is a limit to how many overpasses it is feasible to solder to make traces cross eachother. WIll be interesting to see where it pans out nonetheless.

It would just be a two-layer PCB, no problem. I don't understand your concern

damn worm ate up the time i was going to use to look into led driers :/

BTW, I remember that there was a desire to design the PCB for the Light so that some of the significant groups of keys could be cut off if you did not want them.
That would have made it possible for the builder to make into a tenkeyless, or even into a minimalist layout, like the MiniGuru.

yes, we're not at the point where we can say whether or not this is possible. also, cutting pcbs is nasty work it would be more of a modular design thing