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What's you topic you never miss a chance to talk about and haven't had a chance to recently? (hexbear.net)
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I’ve had two days in a row where I got to nerd out over stuff with people. Let’s get some of that going for everyone else.

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[–] good_girl@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

mechanical keyboards

Big same. None of my friends are too into it like I am so I tend to keep it all to myself or my GF.

I saw you're into splits and staggered columnar boards above and I wanted to share my own developments to a comrade.

This is one that I'm still early in design on. I need to revisit the bottom part of it to fit a bigger keycap, I'm thinking either 1.25 or 1.5U. My plans are to make this one my daily driver that i take to and from work so I'm gonna put in a nice!nano for BT.

This one is one that I've already completed a hand-wired prototype for and I've just been lagging on programming it for QMK. This is the left-hand side of the split, I wanted a southpaw design with a columnar stagger and this is what i came up with. I'll probably end up having to revisit the stagger amounts later but by the time I started on the board above, I was nearly done wiring this one. The cap sizes for the modifers on the left and space/layer keys at the bottom probably have to change as well as 1.5U/2U was probably too big. My plan for this one is just to have a comfy end-game board.

My father works at a machine shop so I can easily have a fully aluminum case made for these and I'm thankful for that. I also have to work on designing actual PCBs for these because hand-wiring is a pain in the ass; it was a nice experience, but I probably will never do it again.