[DIY project] Alu and acrylic cased TKL keyboard and seperate numpad.

[JPG]

This thing looks so nice.

BTW, will the screws stick outside from the case or end "flush" on the surface?

Anyway, best of luck with this project!

[Salisen]

This thing looks so nice.

BTW, will the screws stick outside from the case or end "flush" on the surface?

Anyway, best of luck with this project!

Flush would be ideal.  It could probably be done pretty easily as long as thicker alu is used than 1.5mm.

[Salisen]

I believe I've now selected a small size microcontroller to replace the teensy on the numpad, while still keeping both numpad and TKL keyboard the same length.

Namely, this microcontroller:

The AT90USB162.  Specifically with part number AT90USB162-16AUR and description IC AVR MCU 16K FLASH 32TQFP.

32TQFP is SMD, but it should be okay to solder by hand without too much trouble (I hope...).

I think it'll be possible to port the phantom firmware for the teensy without too much trouble.  It's just a smaller cousin of the controller used on the Teensy2.0++ (very similar part number, Teensy2.0++ uses the AT90USB1286.  Numpad only needs about 10 IO pins max, so the 21 IO pins max provided by this thing should be fine.  With any luck it'll be mostly a case of changing pin definitions or something (and defining the numpad layout).

Time to acquire free samples from Atmel (the perks of being a student!), and give it a whirl on a breadboard (guess I'm gonna need to get an adapter for it too).

Seriously though.  Free samples of electronics parts are awesome.  If this gets produced en-mass and any of you are students, abuse it.  Actually just abuse it anyway.  Free electronics bits are awesome (particularly when they get sent express delivery...).

[SmallFry]

So, this means that you're focusing on the number pad right now? If so, I might pick up on your case since the Phantom is coming soon...

[Acetrak]

Do it SmallFry

[Salisen]

So, this means that you're focusing on the number pad right now? If so, I might pick up on your case since the Phantom is coming soon...

Go for it! 

I've got quite a bit of programming to do at the moment anyhow.  I have an assignment over Christmas to code a simulation of the zombie apocalypse. 

[nebo]

So, this means that you're focusing on the number pad right now? If so, I might pick up on your case since the Phantom is coming soon...

Go for it! 

I've got quite a bit of programming to do at the moment anyhow.  I have an assignment over Christmas to code a simulation of the zombie apocalypse. 

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#include <stdio.h>

int main main()
{
    int humPop = 1000000;
    int zombPop = 1;

    while(zombPop > 0) {

        printf("Still ****ed.\n");

        if (rand() % 0 + 1 == 1) {
            /* someone died, prob 1/2 */
            zombPop++;
            humPop--;
        }

        if (rand() % 10 + 1 == 5) {
            /* zombie died, prob 1/10 */
            zombPop--;
        }
    }
}



Now back to work with you!

[Leewei]

Keep up the good work guys! I can't wait to see this project go through!

[NikoGasm]

I really like this case, it'd be perfect for a Phantom.

[SmallFry]

Guess it isn't going to work... I have SolidWorks 2011 on my father's work laptop, and you seem to be working in a future version Salisen. Crap.

[Salisen]

Guess it isn't going to work... I have SolidWorks 2011 on my father's work laptop, and you seem to be working in a future version Salisen. Crap.

That's odd.  What files were you after?  I might be able to output in an older format. 

[Salisen]

Guess it isn't going to work... I have SolidWorks 2011 on my father's work laptop, and you seem to be working in a future version Salisen. Crap.

That's odd.  What files were you after?  I might be able to output in an older format. 

Damn.  I can't output anything other than 2012.  >_<

[SmallFry]

Stupid Solidworks... erg. I'll have to see if my dad will get 2012 after the holidays.

[Salisen]

Stupid Solidworks... erg. I'll have to see if my dad will get 2012 after the holidays.

Actually, I think the guy at the Physics workshop I used got the files to load.  He was using an older version too.

They wouldn't load directly from the previews in folders.

He went into the program and opened the files from within, and they worked then. 

[SmallFry]

I can't get it to work...

[Salisen]

I can't get it to work...

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Noooooo!

[SmallFry]

I know... Pissed me off something terrible.

[Salisen]

I just want to note that I've been gone for a while due to the dreaded phenomenon of Real Life.

I will be back!  I just have quite a lot of University Work to do this week.

[nebo]

Psh, school work. Like school is important for anything when casing needs to be made! Any plans to allow for the extra 5 keys in the control panel section?

[inteli722]

This is very cool! This would be VERY interesting to me, especially for a numpad-compatible Phantom layout.

[Kempher]

Going to watch this for updates, i'm really interested in a Filco version =).