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I’ve recently moved from my Debian laptop to a MacBook Air as my main machine for tech projects and everyday computing. While FlashPrint is perfectly serviceable, I’ve never really been thrilled to use it, so I decided to move over to Cura . However, this presented a challenge. FlashForge uses a proprietary .gx format for their gcode, which includes some extra metadata. This…
This is part 3 of 3 of my post on the process of creating my own split keyboard. See part 1 and part 2 . The PCBs arrived today, so that means it’s time to get everything put together. The mousebites worked well. They were easy to break in two, then I took off the remaining tabs with a pair of pliers. The edges are a little rough, but after going over them with an xacto knife for a bit, they’re…
In my last post , I went over my initial design and its issues, which was written after the fact. Here, I’m writing this as I’m actually designing it. PCB updates I’ve changed the diode footprint to a MiniMELF footprint. I tried to simply fix the traces, but it got too messy for my liking, and I’ve decided to redo all of the traces. I found that process to be pretty fun, so…
I’ve spend a lot of time over the past few years going down the very deep rabbit hole that is custom mechanical keyboards. About a year ago, I landed on the 34 key Sweep . Beautiful keyboard, but the more I used it, the more I discovered a few annoyances. You can do a lot with 34 keys, but I couldn’t find a way to do everything I wanted with these keys without also employing combo keys…
Hi, I’m bkienzle, I’m a developer and security professional. I consider myself a jack of all trades, but I enjoy deepening my understanding of anything that interests me. I try hard to know what I don’t know. With that said, I’m not fixed on always being right; I want to be accurate and don’t mind being told I’m wrong. I’m available at…