The first picture shows my daily keyboard. It was done as temporary and serves me for over a year. But slowly dies.
The second picture is a WIP layout for the new one. Still will be cheap, but with PCB, hotswap switches and case. There will be encoder in top right corner.
Have to think what else to change in it. Suggestions anyone?
Soldering SMD components for the first time. 1206 size diodes only so went easy.
H261 works. Needs cleaning and casing.
PCB for my new keyboard arrived. Purple, so it fits Ultimate Pico colour.
Next days will be soldering diodes, switches and MCU to get it working.
Then 5-ways as they need keycap modifications.
And will 3d print case with USB hub integrated.
My keyboard got an upgrade today.
The usb hub on my desk was a bit far away so I decided to move my Yubikeys closer to the keyboard.
By adding USB hub into keyboard. Cheap, aliexpress one. Was something around 1-2โฌ for a pcb.
My next keyboard will have usb hub as well but better hidden. And maybe usb 3/5Gbps one.
Long time since last post in #HrwKeys story.
Waiting for PCB for my h261v6 keyboard. In meantime I noticed that it has one extra key between "0" and "Backspace".
Design of the bottom case in progress.
Will be fun.
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After almost year of using "temporary" keyboard, time to build a new one.
- much robust case design
- Ultimate pico again
- built-in usb hub (for yubikeys)
- low profile keys
- one encoder (volume/media)
Will see how it will serve.
My 4th keyboard project went to print. Still in Alice land.
This time kind of variant of Jabberwocky [1] one. So columns of keys to make a difference.
Will have to give it some name, other than work-in-progress one ("ลledzik").
"Use QMK!" they said.
"No, use VIA! You will have a way to configure keyboard via web browser!" said others.
"Forget QMK or VIA, use VIAL!" said yet another group.
You know what I say? Forget VIAL - it is interesting fork with even worse docs than QMK (which has awful docs).
Go QMK + VIA_ENABLE=yes.
After looking at all projects which can generate STL with keyboard plate I think that my next keyboard will lack case again.
It is easy to generate plate for/in OpenSCAD. But adding holes is more complicated ;D
Or maybe I can generate file in OpenSCAD, export and then edit it in FreeCAD...
Marcin Juszkiewicz ๐