Love the design, we need one of these with an arrow key cluster and maybe an extra 1 or 2 buttons most.
I actually want to do a little gamepad thing, maybe with an analog stick too
ALSO: PCBS ARE IN!
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Awesome, us gamers with 60% boards thank you, for almost everything I love my 60% but for those few games that need arrows and wasd it's such a pain to have function layer arrows. I have tried using my Realforce 23U but it's just not the same as a proper arrow cluster. The M4-A case design is almost perfect for something like this too.
Been loving your designs generally, keep up the awesome work! We wish you had unlimited time and money to work on these things too ;)
Cool cool! I'll definitely get onto it! :D What are your thoughts on having an analog stick on there too?
Thanks heaps for the kind words too dude, appreciate it!
ALSO UPDATE!
SO... big scare. Ripped out one of the M4's from the packet to try out, plugged it in and..... NOTHING! *cue lots of stressing*
Whipped out the multimeter, checked everything. Seemed good, continuity, power flowing through, the lot. So then time to check the atmega to see if was programmed, super quickly built a rig before I left home from work:
Chucked on the PCB:
Then contacted Machine Industries to ask wtf to do. Opened up Avrdude, and boom, NO FIRMWARE LOADED. NOOOOO.
The manufacturer was supposed to load the firmware onto each PCB. They did not :(
Wasn't as bad as a problem as a I thought it was, thank god! But yeah, going to streamline this jig then flash the firmware on all of them :)
Just want to keep you guys updated! Going to show off the configurator soon too ;)
Bonus pic, reset/programming button lines up PERFECTLY!