this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
70 points (98.6% liked)
Technology
1928 readers
7 users here now
Rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it's technological news, it probably belongs here.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I started off with the quefrency, a split 'normal' keyboard, then started making my own (3d printed handwired) orthos.
Then I saw the alu case for iris and got tempted but am unwilling to drop >$300 on a layout I've never used before, so designed my own case with tilt and 3d printed and handwired that (all for ~£30 only!! split orthos CAN be cheap! - my first post on Lemmy was on this :D) And have been daily driving it so far
Column staggered is defo the way to go
I'm going down that rabbit hole as well - I've already built a handwired 3d printed keyboard and my current project is a split with a 4-way switch as a thumb cluster - inspired by the Fulcrum and in case I need a different cluster, this part of the case is modular.
My next build was (probably) going to be a remix of the iris and I wanted to include a joystick so I could use it 4 ways (towards left, highlight words to left; to right, layer; up down, vol controls).
I'd never come across 4/5 way switches before so that's definitely something I'll be looking into! Thanks for sharing!!
What CAD program do you use for designing your cases?
Ah you're right, it's a 5 way switch - forgot the "push" action. I'm using realthunders' branch of FreeCAD - it is really convenient to use compared to the normal release.
Oh I might have to take a look at that, I also use FreeCAD! Damn look at all these things you're introducing me to 😂
That's awesome, glad to hear that! If you're still learning it like me, I can really recommend the videos by OficineRobotica on YouTube (like quick recap on some additions to the branch and the series about building a Raspberry Pi case)