My wife loves Yahtzee , but the problem with Yahtzee is that, as most games involving rolling dice, it's particularly hard to play on the go and has been relegated to the dinner table. This year, I decided to remedy that and make her a more portable version of the game. The result is a pocketable device with a machined aluminum case, tactile buttons, LED dice displays, and a custom PCB…
This is the most complicated keyboard I've ever designed and built so far: Custom hot swappable PCB built around an nrf52 module, all components smd mounted, no RGBs. Power/data through usb-c but the main goal is to use it wirelessly over BLE Brass plate with flex cuts The body is made of two black anodized CNC'd aluminum parts that are bolted together The star of the show is an…
Very little to say about this keyboard, it's similar to the new blanck but with a handmade walnut and maple case. The lid has a small leather cushion that doubles as a hand rest.
After having used the Blanck keyboard for a few months, I realized there were a few things I wish I had done differently, like the wiring of the switch or having a slight angle to the keyboard. In parallel, I had been wanting to teach myself how to design circuit boards for a while, so I figured this would be a great occasion to learn. Before going into the details of how the new Blanck keyboard…
A month ago, I shared my handwired Planck keyboard . Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on an updated version of it, which I’m calling the Blanck keyboard. It’s a Bluetooth LE mechanical keyboard, with a case milled out of a solid piece of walnut, a magnetic USB charger and a breathing activity LED, and I obviously had to write my own firmware from scratch to drive it. In my previous…
After discovering the Planck keyboard, I got really obsessed with the form factor. Unfortunately there were long shipping delays so I ended up building one by hand. I used keyboard-layout-editor.com for the layout, then builder.swillkb.com to generate the CAD, and ordered the top plate from lasergist.com . I then fitted the switches in the top plate. And soldered all the diodes and columns.…