A bit of fun with white + purple PCBs from JLC and some silly silkscreening too!
#Tenkeyless Macro + LCD Keyboard
radiant nymph
radiant nymph
what are the graphics? beans pickles and sunflowers?
yup. its an in joke with my other half and our dog (who's called bean)
and the hexagons on the white plate are just because I like hexagons 😂
radiant nymph
Is a pcb mounting plate cheaper than laser-cut?
Didn't look at the prices of laser cutting it to be honest. Doing it as a 2 layer pcb though was cheap enough for my budget compared to all the other components on it so just did it via JLC.
radiant nymph
PCB layout and 3D Renders
turbid compass
nice work!
radiant nymph
turbid compass
that was fast!!
radiant nymph
haha. I started designing this on new years eve, over various iterations and waiting for parts to arrive from aliexpress before continuing on things, I've finally got to the point where the keyboard scanning is now nice and fast.
ember solar
where'd you make/get those schmick keycaps?
turbid compass
i think they call them 'pudding' style
ember solar
I'm also open for your footprint library (or pcb file)
radiant nymph
https://www.customkeycaps.co.uk/products/orange-pudding-keycaps essentially mixed a couple of different sets
That's the kicad archive for it. Likely you'll find what you need in there in terms of footprints and stuff. It mixes and matches ebastler's library, the perigoso library, and my own custom one for putting the keycaps on (just found a generic Cherry style keycap set for a model)
pastel gust
@radiant nymph What micro and LCD did you use?
radiant nymph
Xiao rp2040, and https://www.adafruit.com/product/4383
pastel gust
Nice, thanks
radiant nymph
Actually I lie, if was the waveshare version of the rp2040 zero board. Had a couple more IO than the Xiao variant. Same gist though.
pastel gust
I see