Hmmm. Those bent-plate "cases" were originally a samwisekoi design, and I have a couple live and useable now. One is a Poker X, and the other a hard-wired 75% similar to the Epsilon. Based on how those feel in use, I would not recommend that design for such a massive keyboard. However, if you did want to do that, then MOZ has the right idea. Once we get the mechanicals locked, I'll work with jdcarpe to expand the plate with front and back flanges and the tiny notches the machine shop needs to use as bending guides.
(I can post some pictures of my actual "cases" details, if anyone wants to see them up close.)
In other news, I am considering adding GH-122 and JD40 expansion kits to Nuclear Data Green. JD40 is harder because of the necessary flexibility of the design. However, the only problem with a GH-122 is having enough keycaps. Imagining what I'd want to actually add to my keyboard to make it more useful than the Model M it would replace, I come up with the attached layout. (The quad-arrow key would really function as a down-arrow to enable an inverted-T cluster.
I added eight macro keycaps and the undo-cut-copy-paste set that the old Macintosh Extended Keyboards had.
Thoughts on any of the above?
- Ron | samwisekoi
p.s. I might prefer the look of an ISO Return key, but probably not the feel.