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Offline hgoel89

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MAD-MAX themed keyboard! Need help with keycaps
« on: Sun, 01 January 2017, 09:02:29 »
I have a crazy idea to make a mad max inspired keyboard.
I plan to have a skeleton plate for top and bottom, and give them a rusted pattern.  Then use the sack cloth to cover the open sides.

Using orange/red led for fire style underglow.

Now I am stuck at keycaps.
Are there any existing brown translucent keycaps?
I am open to other options.
I plan to use a brown gateron

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Re: MAD-MAX themed keyboard! Need help with keycaps
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 01 January 2017, 09:51:00 »
I don't think there are. Maybe you would be better off buying a white set and making them really dirty? See Pexon's post about his Fallout 4 themed 60% build. :D

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Re: MAD-MAX themed keyboard! Need help with keycaps
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 01 January 2017, 13:07:01 »
I did a pseudo-rustic version but did not alter the key caps.

A dirty/stained/bloody dye job would be easy with PBT caps, use plastic tape for dye-resist areas and markers or paint markers for "damage".
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Re: MAD-MAX themed keyboard! Need help with keycaps
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 01 January 2017, 21:59:55 »
I did a pseudo-rustic version but did not alter the key caps.

A dirty/stained/bloody dye job would be easy with PBT caps, use plastic tape for dye-resist areas and markers or paint markers for "damage".
That's a nice build.
But it has a lot more keys. What pcb/board have you used? Or is it all self wired?


EDIT: I have found the info on that keyboard.
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Re: MAD-MAX themed keyboard! Need help with keycaps
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 02 January 2017, 00:26:36 »
There's this. You'd need to buy the entire board, though.
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Re: MAD-MAX themed keyboard! Need help with keycaps
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 02 January 2017, 08:34:32 »

That's a nice build.


It is not a "build" it is a Model F 122-key terminal without the plastic case shell. I did not change anything electrical, I only added a Teensy.
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power."
He paused for a moment, then thundered, “Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power!”
“In vain,” Roosevelt said, “they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
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