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Sweep36 from Fingerpunch with Robins and Hand-dyed MBK Caps (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is my most recent build. I've had the PCBs for half a year and just now found time to put it together.

I work from home and wanted something that I could use specifically for work, and wanted to try out clickies since I don't have co-workers around that would get annoyed. I was also really interested in what the dude at Fingerpunch did with the Elite-C as a 36 key diodeless solution and wanted to check these MCUs out anyway so it made sense that this would be a next build.

So far, I'm not sure. The switches have very little wobble but the springs are just a tad bit on the heavy side for me. I wanna give it a week writing code with before I really get an opinion.

The pink with the turquoise switch color also makes for one heck of a combo. I think it almost takes center stage compared to the black PCB which was what I really was after. I like how black and pink look together.

Here's a side view to see the switches. Sorry for the quality:

And if anyone is curious, here's my layout for the most part:

[–] cairn 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing the layout along with your very nice build. Which physical thumb keys do your have mapped as the two thumb keys in your layout?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I was posting this and got a 500 Internal server error from the site. I'll check back in a bit to see if it saved correctly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That looks so nice! Do you have any resources handy for how you went about dying your keycaps?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I used iDye Poly. You can find it on amazon or probably other places.

It's been about a year since I dyed these ones but if I recall, I tossed the dye into a crockpot we have for non-food related shenanigans like dyeing yarn. Let it heat up and then toss the caps in. I used a strainer spoon thing to periodically check the color until it was a shade I was happy with. Then fish them out and rinse them a bunch. After I rinsed them and was pretty sure they were able to be handled by hand, I scrubbed them lightly with a rag to make sure no residue was left.

If you look up any videos on dyeing ABS plastic(or whatever type the caps are made out of) that should transfer to this fairly well.