Hello !
For some years I've been lukring GeekHack, buying keyboards and keycaps, dreaming of designing & making my own.
It's now a dream come true with this split 60% ISO
I wanted another Pure Pro ISO for my workplace, but they were sold out, so I thought "f- that, I'm making one!"
I started by copying 90% of the layout of the pure pro on the online layout editor, copy-pasted it onto the Plate builder by swillkb, wich gave me a basic sketch of the plate to work on in SolidWorks. The layout can look somewhat ugly because it's asymmetric and I think 60% with arrows aren't quite popular, but it's functional.
I printed a prototype, corrected some stuff, bought a teensy 3.2, cried trying to compile kiibohd (sorry), bought a teensy++ instead and some Mx Clear and printed the final version.
I was afraid 3D printing the whole thing would turn out ugly and/or the plate would bend, but it's rather strudy and it doesn't look *too* plastic-y...
The next one I will do will be aluminum & wood tho.
At one point I got struck because I didn't know what to use to make the connection between both matrixes, I needed 5 wires for the rows and 8 for the collumns. Some friend suggested HDMI and that turned out to be exactly what I needed.
I almost started developing my own basic firmware for it (I'm a C embedded dev by trade), but I discovered QMK Firmware Builder and was amazed by how powerful it was and there is no point in re-inventing the wheel so...
All things considered, I could do this keyboard only because of all the great tools & tutorials you guys made all over the web, so thanks (esp. to Matt3o, Ruiqui Mao, Ian Prest, swill...) !
The 3d model, both .STL and solidworks files, are here :
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2402102Now I need to 3D print some size 2 DSA spacebars...
Edit: I forgot to mention, I added neodymium magnets along the split, I'ts not really necessary but when "locked" I can move the whole keyboard by grabbing just one half.