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geekhack Marketplace => Interest Checks => Topic started by: Pacifist on Sat, 21 June 2014, 22:06:48

Title: [IC] No SMD PCB Project -- 60%, 75%, 87%, 100%
Post by: Pacifist on Sat, 21 June 2014, 22:06:48
IC

No SMD required PCBs

I want to design and make PCBs. What makes these different from most others? It'll be teensy and/or pro micro based and require no SMD work: just simple through hole.

Plans:

Must haves:
PCB mounted stabs, compatible with "universal" plates and cases
PCB mount holes

Medium Priority:
ANSI+ISO support, multiple layouts
MX and Alps support

Backburner:
Backlighting support

Idea list:
Put teensy in spacebar location
104 can be broken off into TKL or 60% and a numpad. Either seperate controllers for each or some sort of connection to use one controller
Title: Re: [IC] No SMD PCB Project -- 60%, 75%, 87%, 100%
Post by: Pacifist on Sat, 21 June 2014, 22:07:18
reserved
Title: Re: [IC] No SMD PCB Project -- 60%, 75%, 87%, 100%
Post by: Hak Foo on Sat, 21 June 2014, 22:17:00
Alps?
Title: Re: [IC] No SMD PCB Project -- 60%, 75%, 87%, 100%
Post by: Pacifist on Sat, 21 June 2014, 22:18:23
Quote from: Hak Foo on Sat, 21 June 2014, 22:17:00
Alps?

Thank you for reminding me about that. Only issue is getting plates and cases made, but hopefully they can fit with preexisting cases
Title: Re: [IC] No SMD PCB Project -- 60%, 75%, 87%, 100%
Post by: Magna224 on Mon, 28 July 2014, 09:11:01
Id probably get one if it was ALPS compatible.
Title: Re: [IC] No SMD PCB Project -- 60%, 75%, 87%, 100%
Post by: Findecanor on Mon, 28 July 2014, 14:37:04
Quote from: Pacifist on Sat, 21 June 2014, 22:06:48
104 can be broken off into TKL or 60% and a numpad.
One 100% PCB with break-away parts, to get TKL and 60%... Yeah, that idea was up for a project called "The Light (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=26751.0)" that didn't take off. There might be some useful info in its old thread though.

I would like to have a TKL PCB with the function key row on a separate PCB so that I could raise it up a little.