Hey, after a long time decided to post my first Ergodox build. I only got the PCBs from the first group buy, since I missed the whole package and sourced everything from other places.
Biggest issue was the case for the PCBs, since 3D printing is a tad bit too expensive for my tastes at the moment, though it produces awesome cased. Ultimately went with the idea of making my case from wood, so I went to grab a ****ty but big 3mm thick composite wood panel from a local shop. With 3mm per layer I went with one bottom plate, three sandwiched and one top layer. The bottom and middle layers are glued together, while the top is screwed into the glued section, so I can always access the PCBs if the need arises.
The PCBs are not screwed into the case, since the fitting is so tight I have issues removing them from the case
A little mod I did was to place a B/W 1" OLED (128x64) screen onto the right hand side. I hooked it up to the I2C bus, but have not yet modified to firmware to communicate with it. When I get time that will get worked out. Planning to show key modifiers and layer position, will add features as I find them usefull.
Power consumption of the screen is 20mA when fully lit, 1mA when no LED is active, pretty decent.
As for the pictures (
highres here):