Like most hobbies, and specifically the mechanical keyboard hobby, you can't stop at just one. This radical keyboard supports RGB LED SMDs. This entire board features SMD mounted everything! The diodes and resistors and LEDs are all SMDs. This makes its very difficult to build and super thin!.
Thin and ergonomic is what I was going for with this board. The lights are awesome! The OLED displays are just keyboard bling. Meaning, you don't need them, but if you can have them, why not! I cut out the top and bottom acrylic plates using a Epilog Fusion M2 Laser cutter. There's a little bit of black magic getting the settings just right. You have four essential settings apart from calibrating the Laser bed and position. DPI which is the resolution, power, frequency and speed.
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Mechanical keyboards. An expensive complicated tedious acronym riddled hobby, and its a blast! If you've never thought about the piece of hardware you usually start and end your day with, well you should do a quick internet search for "custom mechanical keyboard." You may be amazed at the endless permutations of the results.
I started with this little guy. Not only can you customize the look of the keyboard, but you can change key layouts, layers, what happens when you hit the key twice as opposed to once, what happens when you hold the key down, not to mention having n-key rollover, meaning you can hold down n-number of keys in order to trigger a specific function. Then, you can customize the types of keycaps. There's different profiles, heights, widths, materials and looks. The more popular profiles are SA, DSA, XDA, DCS, Cherry and OEM. However, there's still many others I didn't mention. Then, you have switches! This is a fun one. A deep rabbit hole. You can geek out to the level of wanting a specific actuation force of the key. This is not the force it takes to press the key all the way down. Its the force it takes to activate a key press input signal to your actual PC. Many people even move to the level of having a specific switch oil, to oil there individual switches. However, I'm not quite at this level, yet. To be clear, this is not a build guide its more of a brag guide. If you're interested in a build guide check out this site: https://docs.keeb.io/iris-build-guide/ .I decided to build this as my first for many reasons. It was smaller and since I don't have massive hands, check out the ergodox, I wanted something that wouldn't require me to stretch my hands and start doing hand calisthenics. I also wanted less keys. Many keys are used rarely and require you to move your hands off the home row. With QMK, the firmware that powers the keyboard, you can have keys preform multiple functions. This is great if you want to keep your hands near the home row. Also, I have issues forcing my hands to stay in an awkward narrow positions pulling my shoulders forward, blah blah blah office ergonomics. Lastly, it's a pretty straight forward build and easy enough for a beginner. I built a custom QWERTY keyboard layout with cherry brown switches and XDA profile blank keycaps. I also dyed the caps black with iDye which was a little bit of a pain. It turned out great though. Wired LED backlight and RGB LED strips for underglow. Yeah, that's right. I'm not afraid to admit it (just moderately embarrassed). I made a windows media player skin. Although, no one will ever use this and its probably copyright infringement AND Microsoft doesn't even support it anymore. I did it. At least it looks cool!
Well, I did it. I built my first android app. It wasn't easy. It took 80% of the "Essentials for android development" lesson from lynda.com. It was a great lesson. I recommend it to anyone that really wants to learn something. I always thought that the causal youtube playlist or what-have-you would work just as well. The man difference is that the lynda tutorial is up to date and just a little bit more professional then the best free tutorial. That being said, I'm sure you could figure it out on your own, however it was just a little easier this way.
Have you ever been siting at your desk and moving from side to side poring over expense reports, quarterly reports or looking through your drawers for the memo your boss gave you? I surely never have, however that does seem like it would be worthy of exudation of water-rich secretion. According to the internet a fully grown adult, at maximum capacity, can secrete 2-4 liters of this stuff an hour. Let this little guy help you with your thermoregulation. Follow the link to get some help with evaporation.
www.instructables.com/id/Face-Tracking-Desk-Fan/ If you've ever lived in an apartment you know how annoying loud neighbors can be. If you have never had the opportunity to experience loud neighbors, then perhaps YOU are the loud neighbor? In my eternal quest toward becoming a pleasant enjoyable friendly individual, I created a service that would notify me via SMS text message when my dog was barking. At least this way I knew if I was the loud neighbor. Follow the link to my instructable.
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