Video overview here:
After switching almost fully to 40% keyboards, my wrists started to miss my split keyboard, but every time I went back I couldn't do the standard stagger. I was adjusted to the matrix layout, and didn't want to switch between them. Obviously I needed a split 40%!
But the more I planned, the more I realized that part of the 40% appeal was the portability it afforded. I didn't want more pieces and more wires, I wanted exactly what I had, but more ergos. So I started designing hinges to fold up the keyboard, set it up at whatever angle I chose, and like my M15, lock in place so I could keyboard in my lap. Also, no wires. I wanted the wires enclosed somehow.
So after months of on an off planning, I came up with some designs which all failed miserably, and needed to be redone a few times until I got a solid and working hinge!
Then it was jut a matter of joining it to the existing split 40 plans, and confirming all the tolerances for space for all the stuff going into it, and room for the wires to move inside without breaking or straining themselves or anything else.
The RGBs were somewhat perfunctory, but I went with them anyway because people like them, and it's hard not to take advantage of the acrylic and no-pcb design that lets so much light through. But since I frequently use this plugged into my phone for coding on the go, I set the backlight to default off, as it drains my phone battery. As some of you may have noticed, this lead to me testing if Easy AVR can use the backlights as indicator lights when the backlights are turned off. It can!
Here are some earlier pics while it was not yet wired.
http://imgur.com/a/Un0c9
