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PCB-layout wizard needed to collaborate to make 2nd row of fn keys!
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jayeye
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Location: New York
PCB-layout wizard needed to collaborate to make 2nd row of fn keys!
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Fri, 13 October 2017, 16:35:11 »
I want to make an extra row of function keys to sit above F1-F12 on the my Model M keyboard, and hook them up using a Teensy. Basically, my own, better version of
http://xkeys.com/xkeys/xk16.php
. I may even add a fingerprint reader such as
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13007
, and, of course, lots of LEDs.
I'm a software engineer by profession; I play with embedded stuff, but so far everything I've done has been with stripboards and wires and breakout boards. The learning curve for PCB layout tools is fairly steep, and I also lack domain knowledge. I haven't laid out my own PCB in decades, back when we were doing it with pressure-transfer labels! I don't want to build something that would look to a hardware engineer what most of the code that's out there for Arduinos looks to me (hint: it looks like what my cats leave in their litterbox twice a day
).
Anyone want to collaborate on this? I'm in NYC, so if you're in the area we can design it over beers
/ji
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Re: PCB-layout wizard needed to collaborate to make 2nd row of fn keys!
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Sun, 15 October 2017, 02:53:27 »
I don't know if it was intentional, but the first line of text is very tiny.
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jayeye
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Re: PCB-layout wizard needed to collaborate to make 2nd row of fn keys!
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It looks just fine to me.
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