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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: aegrotatio on Sat, 09 October 2010, 23:24:53

Title: Poor man's tenkeyless mechanical
Post by: aegrotatio on Sat, 09 October 2010, 23:24:53

The new web site for veteran keyboard maker DSI over at dsi-keyboards.com sells a financial keyboard in Cherry Blue and ALPS versions.  From the instructions on how to swap the keyboard with the keypad/touchpad sections it looks, to me, like you could just toss out the keypad/touchpad and fashion yourself a poor-man's tenkeyless mechanical.

What do you think?  I suspect a circuit board or two might need to move and I'm not sure if both the Cherry and ALPS versions have the circuit board in the same places.

Title: Poor man's tenkeyless mechanical
Post by: Lanx on Sun, 10 October 2010, 00:29:20

it's 129 for the keyboard and 13bucks to ship, 143? I don't think that's much savings. but yea w/ a dremel it'd make short work of the abs plastic and pcb board (prolly best to do them seperately) and get a diamond blade. but then what to do about the cuts on the bottom? sand? epoxy? bondo, cuz that part might have wrist/skin contact it'd prolly itch.