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As if Ergomechkeyboards needs more Cheapino’s. I had my spare parts laying around and built this for a friend. Thought I’d share a quick photo. Still love this project

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Looks amazing! How did you get it? Did you buy it all set or you built it yourself?

BTW, what are these keycaps?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Built it, it’s a cheap diy option called the Cheapino https://github.com/tompi/cheapino

Pretty affordable option though at low key count you could likely get a better build for a similar cost. Keycaps are whatever cheap aliexpress I could find hahaha.

Doing it again I’d go for the badwings that Hazel just posted here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks to you i will build my own Cheapino as my first Ergo Mech. Hopefully everything goes right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yo, how’d the build go? You get parts in yet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s a great first build and first ergo. That was my experience as well. Good luck! Shoot me a dm if that is a thing on lemmy and I’d be happy to help you, discord as well if that’s better 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How did the friends like it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I think it was too small for them hahah. But they liked the split and programmability. I think they are looking at buying a voyager.