nydas

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[–] nydas 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve just cancelled my Medium subscription. I was finding myself going there less and less. So many articles saying the same thing in various levels of broken English.

[–] nydas 3 points 1 year ago

Way easier to drink a drive-thru drink from a straw while driving. And it’s a drive-thru, so kinda assumed you’ll be consuming it behind the wheel. My toddler also has a habit of not fully creating a seal between his bottom lip and the underside of the cup. So a straw in that case saves a lot of spillage.

[–] nydas 1 points 1 year ago

It was all by hand, so placing the switches, adding the nets, defining which pin was on which net, and then connecting all the dots.

[–] nydas 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you. Pretty sure it’s all good. Was just hoping for a quick sanity check. All good.

[–] nydas 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So basically ‘don’t worry about it, just put any pin to any pin and manage it through QMK?’

[–] nydas 1 points 1 year ago

Ah good to know. But honestly, it’s just a bit of coloured back lighting I’m looking for.

[–] nydas 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thank you!

[–] nydas 12 points 1 year ago

I think it gives everyone the same list of 29, but it’s the order that’s important. Gentoo came back as my top. I use Void which came back as 4th in my list.

[–] nydas 3 points 1 year ago

Well at least at the end of the questions the distro I use (Void) was somewhere near the top of the list (4th).

[–] nydas 3 points 2 years ago

If you use hotswap, you’ll need something solid and immovable to mount those hotswaps to. That’s generally the pcb, as they both slot in and get soldered on. So you’d need to have a pcb with hotswaps that could work on a Dactyl, and a way to mount it so that is was stable and would take the pressure of pushing in a new switch.

Amoeba Kings is a per key pcb. I have one I built in my git that is choc spaced with RGB too. But you then have to solder each of these together, and attach them firmly to the case. So it would certainly be more work/effort/planning than simply hand wiring.

[–] nydas 2 points 2 years ago

Will do, thank you!

[–] nydas 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Thank you!

But does that equate to the power of AI doubling every 3.5 months?

 

Hey there,

Referring to around 1m40s in the attached Ben Vallack video, he refers to a transparent solder mask to show the traces on the pcb clearly. He’s using pcbway, which seems to be considerably more expensive than jlcpcb who I usually use for my prints.

Does anyone know if jlcpcb has this same capability, and if so what the settings are?

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Tilting legs like the ErgoDox (self.mechanicalkeyboards)
submitted 2 years ago by nydas to c/[email protected]
 

Hi there,

Does anyone have suggestions on where I could by legs similar to those found on the ErgoDox that could be attached directly to a pcb (glue or M2 screws)? Looking for a tenting mechanism for a new custom board.

Note: I’m aware ErgoDox sells the tenting system independently for US$25, however I would then need a way to attach these to the board. They don’t state what the thread size is, etc.

 
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Choc spacing for plate (self.ergomechkeyboards)
submitted 2 years ago by nydas to c/ergomechkeyboards
 

Hi all,

I want to create a custom computer keyboard plate that is choc-switch spaced.

Are there templates for the slot that a choc switch would clip into (correct width, height & any angles ) that I could incorporate into a keyboard case layout? Plan would likely be to print a blank pcb with the cutouts, so something I could pull into KiCad would be ideal.

Note: cross-posted with slight alterations to 3DPrinting.

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Choc space STL (self.3dprinting)
submitted 2 years ago by nydas to c/3dprinting
 

Hi all,

I’ve had a look on thingiverse, but might be using the wrong search term. I want to create a custom computer keyboard plate that is choc-switch spaced.

Are there templates for the slot that a choc switch would clip into (correct width, height & depth) that I could incorporate into a keyboard case layout?

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Gruvbox theme? (self.memmy)
submitted 2 years ago by nydas to c/[email protected]
 

I’ve taken a look through the code, and adding themes seems to be relatively easy. It’s simply the hex values for each color. I would love to add a Gruvbox theme. Should I just create a branch and create a PR, or is there a different process to follow?

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3 or 5 volts for RGB per key? (self.ergomechkeyboards)
submitted 2 years ago by nydas to c/ergomechkeyboards
 

I’m planning on building a custom keyboard with 24 keys running of a BlackPill. It’ll have OLED and RGB.

My question: the BlackPill has 3v and 5v pins. Which should I use for what?

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Bash notes (books.goalkicker.com)
submitted 2 years ago by nydas to c/[email protected]
 

Thought you might appreciate this.

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Free resources (books.goalkicker.com)
submitted 2 years ago by nydas to c/[email protected]
 

Thought I’d share this link. I’m not affiliated in any way.

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Free resource books (books.goalkicker.com)
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Thought I’d share this link. I’m not affiliated in any way.

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Is this possible ? (self.askelectronics)
submitted 2 years ago by nydas to c/[email protected]
 

I would like to build a split-ortho computer keyboard. It would have 12 keys per side. Don’t worry too much about how to get a standard 104 key keyboard down to 24 keys. That’s software magic. But, I would like to have these all controlled off one controller, with a single cable between the two halves.

I really want to use a CAT6 patch cable as the cable, and it has 4 twisted pairs.

Assume the controller on the left side, and a cable to the right side. 12 keys on each side, and 8 cables.

I can use a switch matrix with some resistors to get a 3x4 grid of my switches, and this would use 7 cables. All good so far.

But, I also really want per-key RGB. This requires D-IN/D-OUT; VCC; GND. I could ground each side independently, so ok there. But unless there are some smarts, I only have 1 cable left and need more than that.

So the question to the community: are there any smarts that you can think of to complete the circuit?

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Cable reduction help (self.ergomechkeyboards)
submitted 2 years ago by nydas to c/ergomechkeyboards
 

Hi all,

I have an idea in my head, but I’m a cable short, and looking for suggestions.

24-key split-ortho (2 keys per finger, where you press both top and bottom keys simultaneously to get the home row key), with per-key RGB and OLED display on the left side. But…

I’d like to run this off a single BlackPill controller on the left hand side, and use a CAT6 cable to bridge the two sides.

CAT6 has 4 twisted pairs, so 8 cables. If I run a 4x3 matrix then that’s 7 cables. Plus another for the VCC for the RGB. But then no more for the DIN/DOUT for RGB. GND should be fine as I can earth the right hand side separately, but I’m missing a cable if I want RGB.

Are there any suggestions on how I might be able to get around my challenge?

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