I made my own keyboard :-/
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- err
I got super obsessed with wanting a small mechanical keyboard with programmable fn layers. (mainly for After Effects)
Long story short. I made my own keyboard. Now I don't need my numpad just to hit [numpad enter] to deselect text and [numpad 0] to render preview in after effects.
It was probably the most soldering I've ever done in my life and the first time I messed with arduino/teensy.
I couldn't be happier with the result.
- Hayoth8
That is pretty impressive.
- prophetone-1
Doooooope. I want to get a Poker II, the lazy route.
- bainbridge0
Opened this post hoping to find one made out of sticks or something.
- utopian-1
very nice...good work out of you!
- sureshot-1
oh shit! super nice!
- georgesIII-2
fuckn awesome,
now add some LEDs and play snake
- ernexbcn0
Good stuff.
- set-1
Looks very cool, nice job. Were you not tempted to find keys that weren't six inches tall?
- Bennn-2
Nice work! Looks great man!
- jagara0
That looks like exhausting work if you're me. And amazing work if it's you. What i mean is... good work. It looks great, very industrial. I'm sure you could succesfully produce and sell these. I'd buy it.
- bezoar-2
G'dam. Super cool.
- drgs0
missing F-keys
right shift -- never used it my life
ctrl+alt+del?
printscreen?
- err3
^That's why god made modifier keys.
missing F-keys
fn + 2 = F2ctrl+alt+del?
well i guess its ctrl + alt +F1 But I can make it any combo I want and the shortcut lives in the keyboard without the need for drivers on both mac and pc.printscreen?
shit i forgot to map that. Im still modding this.Also shift is now oneshot so I never get the dreaded "THe"
- uan0
did you rewire an already existing keyboard and program it or built the whole thing? anyway, big WOW :) looks amazing! you should add a qbn key :)
- What would that key do? Downvote everything on the current page?SocieteAnonyme
- open a browser with qbn.com. the upvoting / downvoting could be fn+qbn and fn+shift+qbn ?uan
- err3
I hand wired it. and used a teensy to do all the magic.
(the white shit is instamorph)I heavily used this step by step guide. https://deskthority.net/workshop…
But it was a lot harder than I thought it would be.
- err2
- deathboy-2
impressed. impressed you also didn't do the whole stupid kickstarter thing.