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Around a year and a half ago I started making my own keyboards. Like, I still use normal switches, normal keycaps, and off-the-shelf microcontrollers & firmware, but the layout and the structure are my own design, mostly fabricated at home. After a few experiments (one ortho, one ergo, one macropad, and one gutting of a broken off-the-shelf to try something larger) , I had three keyboards’ worth of aluminum plates made. One was pretty basic but has remained a favorite and another really hit my retro intent for the design, but the second was sort of an ignored middle-child because it wasn’t as refined as the third, or as earnest and satisfying as the first. I fixed it by designing a wrap-around case for it, changing the keycaps, and adding a little solenoid so it sounds like a telegraph machine whenever I flip a little switch. I’m really pleased that I was able to retrofit it to make it stupidly fun to type on. My boards are not exactly the perfectly-finished CNC aluminum showpieces some enjoy, but it’s deeply satisfying to go from a pile of electronic bits, some sheet goods, and a reel of printer filament, to a functioning piece of daily-use equipment.
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This looks awesome man. You got any with numpad?
More pics! Love the yellow and gray builds.
Thanks! They’re the twins of the one I just spruced up. The gray one is bare aluminum with oak spacers. Construction wise, it ended up looking a LOT like Matt3o’s BrownFox from like ten years earlier. No surprise, I suspect. The Swill plate generator I used was likely borne out of people wanting to do similar projects. It has Box Navy switches combined with Vortex-designed VSA keycaps that you can find mislabeled all over ebay/AliExpress/etc. as “double shot DSA”, except for the BBC Micro inspired F row, with is just 12 red DSA blanks and one that I lasered a design onto.
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The yellow one has “Fauxly Panda” no-name heavy tactiles from Aliexpress, a 3-D printed case and feet, Akko “SA-L” keycaps, and a design (very) loosely inspired by the later Atari 8-bits. The color scheme is meant to sort of vaguely evoke the original 400 and 800. I am really pleased with this layout, which is just a TKL with the F-row shoved over, a few missing keys above the nav cluster, the Shifts split in two, and the modifiers shrunk down and reduced to give that “dangling spacebar” look so many old keyboards have. Only thing I’d do different is not split the left Shift. I just never got used to having two keys there, so all three boards now just map shift to both keys.
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This has been an immensely fun hobby, and I’ve probably done a dozen projects by now, though I’ve probably topped out how refined my designs can be and still be fabbed on a 5W diode laser and an Ender 3 clone. Last project before the solenoid and aesthetic retrofit was my goofy no-stabilizers Battlecruiser, which I’m currently using for work.
I’ve been making more music than I usually do lately. Here’s my most recent track: https://on.soundcloud.com/zNnZQUjdG2V4H3Hz8
Latest terrarium, work in progress, used from thrift, front doors open.
Excepting the center-rear plants and two epiphytes (Lowes), everything sourced or created locally.
Substrate: rock (found and cleaned), charcoal & dirt (made myself)
Contents: Mosses, dead and alive, green onions, tiny pine trees, purple hearts (swiped from the gas station trimmings), driftwood (found hiking and canoeing, power washed), reindeer moss (not quite visible)
Lighting: Thrift store light with various grow bulbs, still painting and assembling. Not thrilled with the color, can’t get the high color-fidelity (CRI) grow bulbs I’ve used before, had to mix it up best I could.
Animals: Nothing so far, but I want to pack it with detritivores like millipedes, springtails and roly polys. Wife is getting me a chameleon, probably tonight! Not sure how to keep the bug population going with him in there. Ideas? Rocks to hide under? I may also get a Pac Man frog.
It’ll be way cooler and different in a year. Just put the round, green moss in, hasn’t settled naturally, stuff like that. The pines will be worked over as bonsais, some stuff may die or turn out inappropriate, wood may move around, etc.
A very overdue Christmas themed drawing that I’m not finished with just yet. So here’s some fluffy tinsel I just got done with rendering!
Cool. But, where the tinsel?
My 3D printed Mini Macro Pad project. I’ve been working on it for a couple years now. https://github.com/ssebs/go-mmp
So much software.
The problem is, the target audience is so niche: CLI users, developers, people who value shallow dependencies, heterogenous environments, and localism. Not by any means unique or even rare, but certainly a minority. And I hate marketing and self-promotion, so it makes it difficult for me to even post release announcements.
Luckily, I’m mostly scratching my own itches, so userbase size isn’t important, but knowing that at least a few other people are getting value out of my work would be nice.
Ima clarify that: large userbases are a royal PITA. Yes, there are benefits, but the sense if obligation can be oppressive, and it’s hard to find ways of saying “no” nicely.
I can relate. I wrote an insanely good optimiser for the loading of data to the trading platform for a major fund management company and there are like… 2… people in the world who know and appreciate
I relate. Marketing myself feels like lying at best, or trying to get people’s money at worst. I wish I could just say “hey I made this thing, i hope it helps in some way” without putting a price tag on it.
I mean… that sounds like open source?
finally being user who has started to selfhosting various tools.
thank you the selfhosted community, i appear as a genius to the everyday folk
My shitty cartoons that I moved to a new animation-focused YouTube channel that now are getting less than 1/10th the views after seeming like non-subscribers liked them but subscribers were leaving my channel every time I uploaded them.
Well, don’t leave us hanging. Show the shitty cartoons!
Sure! 😅
Here’s the animation channel : “Cool S Animation”
I moved the cartoons from here - my original now more “video essay” themed channel.
View count comparisons (I know - neither is impressive, lol)
Original Channel :
New Animation-centric Channel :
I make music, including putting it to video every once and awhile. So technically “music videos,” I guess. I don’t share them all that much, but here’s a weird one I’m kind of proud of.
Dang, that’s creepy and I like it. Nice work!
I love valheim. It’s an incredible game that keeps getting better. My first foray into the plains was difficult, and I developed a burning hatred for the fulings (goblin things) there. Monsters rarely drop their heads as trophies. I killed thousands and built a large shed and mounted hundreds of their heads on my walls. No pics handy but if anyone is interested I’ll hop on and screenshot.
lol “goblin murder spree” cabin
My new community and AI powered news summary bot [email protected]
Ik people dont like ai but ive put lots of effort into ensuring it is heighly accurate.
Little late, but I built an axe throwing range in my garage a few years ago. It’s taken quite a beating though, and one of the kids knocked the target off the wall, so it’s out of commission right now, but I was always happy to show it off when it was up and running.
I have recently made a Pastebin in Rust. I have hosted it on Linode server, It’s not something unique but I really like it since I have made it from scratch.
here is the link: https://paste1.duckdns.org/
