Mechanical Keyboards

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Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
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Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

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In progress build: DIY layout from KLE, Laser-cut plate using files from swillkb.com, DIY laser-dye-sub DSA using a few Glyphs I did in Inkscape. (media.kbin.social)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

So registration marks were an excellent idea. After measuring the peak-to peak distance of the "dish" on the DSA keycaps, I set a 0.1mm dot on two corners and simply didn't ink those corners. I'm still eyeballing the laser's framing operation, but it's going well enough that I ran a couple of batches of 9 keycaps with alignment no worse than when I was doing one at a time. I think a second set could be even better, with a proper jig for registration and maybe having most legends towards a corner, as centered legends need to be consistent and accurate. Corner legends just need to be consistent.

Progress.