MickiusMousius

This is awesome.

That shot of the insides really sells it, looks like you really had some fun making it 😊

Awesome, thank you.

I have a Sofle to test with ahead of assembly. Also “my design” is based on the Sofle (electrically at least), this is super helpful!

Thanks. I must admit I am curious to see what mistakes I’ve made this coming weekend. My first KiCAD PCBs should arrive this week, then the penny shall drop I suspect.

If you’ve not tried it yet I’d recommend having a go at reflow soldering with a hot plate. It makes some aspects of assembly easier.

I haven’t yet had a chance to get two rotary encoders working under ZMK yet either. Did you have a good resource to use for that or did you need to figure it out yourself?

(Appreciate I’m asking a lot of questions sorry).

EDIT: I see you’ve posted your ZMK config, nice 😊

Thanks.

I used Shapr3D, it’s a really nice cross platform package but I mostly use it on iPad, it lets me create things without needing to be at a desk.

The surface texture comes from the build plate (Bambu textured PEI build plate), the hiding scratches is exactly why I used it.

That would certainly work, I like that idea.

I won’t personally re-print this case myself as this Corne is just to see if I like the form factor (I do mostly).

But I will give this technique a go for the next enclosure. Even if it’s more work than a smaller magnet I just want to give it a go now 😊

Cool idea!

Thanks.

I’d love to see the end result, no doubt others will find an MX more useful too, I’ve noticed the choc keys aren’t as popular.

This is awesome, I have a similar design coming from JLPCB this week (it is a bit more Corne like though).

Any advice or important lessons you learned?

Thanks, I got the caps from here:

https://shop.beekeeb.com/product/mbk-legend-glow-r2-black-keycap-set/

They’re the “MBK Legend‡ Glow R2 Black Keycap Set”.