It's been a while since I've posted anything in here, but this is my latest project.
I've been wanting a stepped Control key for my HHKB for a while, not necessarily for utility's sake, but for aesthetics and ****s and giggles. I figured I might as well make a WASD cluster and Enter key while I was at it.
With a lot of patience, calipers,
Autodesk 123D Design, and 3DHub (PM me if you want a referral link that gets you a $10 discount for your first purchase), I cranked out these:
I had a couple of goals in mind when I made them. I wanted to make them as thick as possible, so they're almost twice as thick as standard caps and I wanted them to snap fit, which they do. It took them a fair bit of sanding and finishing to get them to where they are from the caps full of striation lines.
I still have to mold and cast them, but I'm stoked on how the masters came out.