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wraith808:
Since that first post, I've spent way too much on this new hobby.  I now have my plank, and jd45 besides.

But I just got back into soldering, and what I'm most proud of is the fact that I just built one from parts!

Mechanical Keyboards

Mechanical Keyboards

Ath:
Looks like a solid piece of work, but where did the numeric keys go :o

tomos:
Looks like a solid piece of work, but where did the numeric keys go :o
-Ath (June 26, 2016, 03:09 AM)
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I was wondering for a moment there how it was soo small lol

Looks great wraith --
how much soldering was involved?

cranioscopical:

 I just built one from parts!

-wraith808 (June 25, 2016, 11:58 PM)
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It's  a good-looking item.  Are you about to enter space?

wraith808:
It's a 40% keyboard.  I've gotten into them for writing, as it focuses me.  I've actually considered making one of them my daily driver... you access the other keys in layers.

So the standard layout (which I tweaked a bit in the firmware)



Then the first function layer



And the second function layer



So, they're still accessible, and I get a keyboard that I can carry, and just like distraction free editors for writing, I consider this a distraction free keyboard for the same.

Looks like a solid piece of work, but where did the numeric keys go :o
-Ath (June 26, 2016, 03:09 AM)
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I was wondering for a moment there how it was soo small lol

Looks great wraith --
how much soldering was involved?
-tomos (June 26, 2016, 04:03 AM)
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I have a build log:

http://imgur.com/a/KQCt4

The only problem I had was in building the firmware.  I ended up using an online configurator to get the hex file to flash it.  I installed the toolchain, and mingw, and the programmer... but I was having problems with the references.  Still want to figure that out... but the soldering, it was just two contacts for 40+ switches.  The board already had the other components on it from the factory.


 I just built one from parts!

-wraith808 (June 25, 2016, 11:58 PM)
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It's  a good-looking item.  Are you about to enter space?
-cranioscopical (June 26, 2016, 06:17 AM)
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Ouch.  That really hurt :)

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