Hello everyone, after designing and building my first mechanical keyboard a few weeks ago, I have another urge to build yet another custom one. This time I have decided to make one based off one of my favorite layouts: the Leopold FC660M/C. You can look at the layout
HERE. With the nonstandard spacebar stem spacing, this issue alone deterred me from buying a leopold and decided to just make my own.
I have again decided to use a layered case with a mix of either aluminium/steel and acrylic as it is cheaper than getting a CNC milled case made.
Here's my progress so far:
I'm trying to get rid off the "floating keys" effect that usually comes with layered cases (
here's an image from my first custom) and make it more look like a KMAC (similar to
this or
this)
I just have a few questions:
1. How thick should I make the cover to achieve this effect? I don't have access to accurate enough measuring tools and would like any info on this by anyone with experience on this.
2. I'm planning to get the metal parts anodized black. Would you recommend to use steel or aluminium.
3. For the co-star through holes, I've increased the height by 0.317mm as previously when I had my other plate cut it was too tight and pushed the stabs in which didn't allot the inserts to go through so I had to mod it like
this do you think this will solve thr problem?
Also I'm planning to hand wire this again, but if any experienced pcb designer could design a pcb for this layout with teensy and in-switch LED support I'd be more than happy to compensate for your time and effort.
Here is a download link to the cad files for anyone interested:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u54vnowum8zo37h/V2ALL.dxf?dl=0