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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: kiwi99 on Tue, 18 April 2017, 12:27:46

Title: Apple Un-Extended Keyboard
Post by: kiwi99 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:


(http://imgur.com/djFxk22.jpg)

(http://imgur.com/CcpUlZx.jpg)


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.

Title: Re: Apple Un-Extended Keyboard
Post by: kiwi99 on Wed, 26 April 2017, 16:24:25

(http://imgur.com/EQqyjjp.jpg)

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..

Title: Re: Apple Un-Extended Keyboard
Post by: BaconEggandCheeseBagel on Wed, 26 April 2017, 17:12:25

Excited to see the result! Keep it coming. How are you going to paint it?

Title: Re: Apple Un-Extended Keyboard
Post by: sth on Wed, 26 April 2017, 17:26:05

This is cod dank beautiful.

Title: Re: Apple Un-Extended Keyboard
Post by: Joey Quinn 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