hi folks,
as a noob with keyboards and having watched all the starcraft II casts for a night i stumbled upon whitefiredragon's youtube video about building a custom keyboard using the phantom pcb. three months later, having signed up to geekhack.org, having bought a soldering kit and everything else, having spent countless hours searching for parts like stabilisers in germany ( and not having found them here ), i've completed my (first) custom board. it is a phantom ISO 1.25x german keyboard with blue switches and cherry stabs ( thanks to whiskytango for providing my board with stabs - would be uncomfortable without them )
some of you may have seen this:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=56161.msg1270713#msg1270713so this was my idea of a case for my phantom. it should be accessible all the time without screws etc. in my original case-post the case was to be lasered. at my place they wanted to charge 100€ just for the lasering and i said "no way". so i went to my university where they'd do it for 25€. too bad that their lasercutter was broken at the time. so i decided to mill it which was a bad idea with this material. as you can see the edges are pretty uneven which i tried to compensate for by sanding quite a lot ( you should have seen it when it came out of the milling machine... ). the result is rough to the eye but very smooth to the touch in deed. all parts are glued together with "ponal holzleim". the end result was spray coated unprofessionally ( see the white stains ) with matte clear spray coating.
but besides that i have to say that i totally LOVE the case, it is heavy like a brick and sturdy as hell. it's a tank seriously. and it has this rough underground style to it. ( well the next one will be lasered for sure and will look and fit better at the end )
i wanted to thank you all for your support, your suggestions and your help. this is an awesome community!!!
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