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Offline TheCultOfKaos

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I'm new and like to DIY!
« on: Fri, 13 February 2015, 23:04:09 »
Hey everyone - new here and figured I'd start with an intro thread.

I love to do stuff myself, and I'm already handy with a soldering iron so I figured building a keyboard would be fun. I have access to a laser cutter through work so I'd like to DIY as much of a build as I can. Im mostly envisioning a TKL with a sandwich type construction. I'd probably hand wire and use something like a teensy. If anyone has any case/plate designs for that already I'd love to see them!  I haven't owned a mech in probably a decade so it'll be fun to get back into it.

Here's my little corner of the basement where I'll put it together.
http://imgur.com/iHQHlKU


Outside of that I work in IT (Devops), and mostly with Linux. My daily PC is a MBP with a dualboot of ubuntu and yosemite. I enjoy building custom xbox controllers too. Here's a small gallery of some I've built: http://imgur.com/a/ijUH9
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Offline rowdy

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Re: I'm new and like to DIY!
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 14 February 2015, 23:16:53 »
Welcome to Geekhack!

There are lots of resources in making stuff together, and quite a few GHers have designed and/or built their own keyboards, so your endeavours will be more than welcome :)
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Offline justify

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Re: I'm new and like to DIY!
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 18 February 2015, 12:24:20 »
hai kaos, i'm glad I brought you here, hope you make the best keyboard that works for you  :thumb:

(it's ram from rBLK  :thumb: :thumb: )
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