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Offline kiwi99

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Apple Un-Extended Keyboard
« on: Tue, 18 April 2017, 12:27:46 »
I got bored and decided I wanna do something different than the normal alps 60% build..

so looking through my closet I found the AEK case I had kept from my previous aek build and decided why don't I see if I can do something with this, a few cuts later and some dremelling and I arrived at this:







So my plan is to have hasus alps 60% pcb for the main keyboard then 3D print some brackets to put LCD screens in each what was the F-row cutouts and have them hooked up to an arduino. Will try to update this along the way with pics every so often.

« Last Edit: Wed, 26 April 2017, 16:22:48 by kiwi99 »

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Re: Apple Un-Extended Keyboard
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 26 April 2017, 16:24:25 »


Finishing up the case a bit before painting :) seems the connection is pretty sturdy but I made an error so the place where the keys go is a little bit too narrow, will need to do a bit of dremelling to fix that..

Re: Apple Un-Extended Keyboard
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 26 April 2017, 17:12:25 »
Excited to see the result! Keep it coming. How are you going to paint it?

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Re: Apple Un-Extended Keyboard
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 26 April 2017, 17:26:05 »
This is cod dank beautiful.
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Re: Apple Un-Extended Keyboard
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 26 April 2017, 18:02:30 »
That's a weirdly adorable form factor.  :))

I'm excited to see how this project turns out
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