Stabilize THIS, ya filthy animals! DIY board with half-height blues and no stabs. (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 months ago by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/mechanical_keyboards@programming.dev

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More here. Bonus points to the first person to spot the keycaps I had to switch after taking the pic.

Leftover no-stabilizers PCB from old project
Pi Pico running ZMK
Outemu half-height blue (odd but kinda nice "ball catch" click mechanism)
VSA keycaps (except for the 1.75u SP DSA on Enter... thank you, otherwise ill-advised purchase of a keycap Grab Bag)
DIY laser cut plate
DIY 3D printed case
As always with my builds, a minimum of 17% jank is included for free.

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[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sometimes a person just gets tired of sourcing the perfect keycaps for a weird ass keyboard, LOL. both "SYS" keys are dedicated spaces, and "Fn" and the Right Alt are set up with "hold-tap" so if they're simply pressed and released, they are spaces as well, leaving me 5"u" of spacebar goodness.

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago

A family member of mine does mechanical keyboards— I don’t understand how ya’ll are able to memorize new layouts so quickly regardless of key caps! Someone should do some research on you guys.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm in the baby-pool over here. Almost everything I do is fairly close to standard, and I prefer mnemonics for the ones that don't match their keycaps' legends. This set didn't have a single-key enter or numpad "+," but an arrow pointed in the same direction as Enter keys helps, and "PN" can be "plus number" in my brain. Even with "SYS," I was very happy to get those "s" sounds for my spaces. I only have one extra layer, and again I went with mnemonics for the most part over locations. Fn+I is insert and Fn+P is Print Screen, although that did necessitate Fn+B as Pause/Break, LOL, but who actually uses Pause/Break?

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