I'm trying to design a keyboard that needs to fit into a small area (550mm by 15mm) and I realized I can technically get a little more room by making it have two right-angle PCBs. I could do that by designing two PCBs... or I could just have a pico mounted at 90 degrees!
I think because I saw the Foone-for-scale post first, I originally misread the dimensions and tried to think why someone would want a keyboard 5.5 meters long.
@dysfun I did once find a PCB manufacturer that would make flex PCBs of near arbitrary length as long as they were no more than about 60mm wide. wasn't cheap but if ever you want to make a 6ft noodle keyboard I can probably dig it back up.
Keyboard installed and functional! It's a macro keyboard for my external monitor.
It's capable of being wireless (but isn't currently) which'll help with cable management, and I need to write some software to make it easier to remap without needing to recompile it.
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JLC quoted me a surprisingly reasonable $30 for 5 off 500x15 flex? I don't know about your space constraints but maybe you could origami your micro off one end or side in that case? 500x40 (for a side-hinged one) lands closer to $40
as a Metallurgical Engineer it looks fine to me. I.e. as someone with no applicable technical knowledge i have no legitimate frame of reference to complain.
@Fratm I mean sticking out of the board, like I only solder one side down and the other side is facing away from the board. I know that'd work electrically, but mechanically it's a tad questionable
I just realized this PCB is actually bigger than my chosen PCB fab can make.
I mean, unless I have them make it diagonally, but I imagine that'd be a tad expensive
@simonzerafa NO
not only do I not want to do something Tom Scott already did, but keyboards don't do unicode.
Sigh. I'll stop following you as you seem to have issues with actually having a conversation.
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My brain went into an infinite loop at the measurement 5'12" and it took some effort to reboot it.
It just did it again, typing the above.
I suppose one could perfectly well go with 4'24", 7'(-12)" or various equivalences as well.
18cm/7", 20 keys.
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Infosec ExchangeKeyboard installed and functional!
It's a macro keyboard for my external monitor.
It's capable of being wireless (but isn't currently) which'll help with cable management, and I need to write some software to make it easier to remap without needing to recompile it.
<sings>
Everytime I think of you
It's over, under, sideways, down
No matter what I try to do
I try to get you off my mind
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(Hmmmm. "Released: 1986". Now I feel _oooold_)
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