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Don't get me wrong, I'm heavily into the custom keyboard scene. PCB design, lots of tiny soldering, 'crazy' ergonomic layouts with only 36 keys and lots of laye
by Okkef 6y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm heavily into the custom keyboard scene. PCB design, lots of tiny soldering, 'crazy' ergonomic layouts with only 36 keys and lots of layers and other tricks.
Still. Why would you want to print your own switch mechanism?
- gh02t 6y agoFun/learning. This is actually quite a sophisticated engineering challenge and there is a ton of stuff to be learned. I would love to do this if I had the time.
- enchiridion 6y agoI view projects like this along the same lines as maintaining classic cars. It a fun and rewarding project, and you learn things along the way.
- Pixelbrick 6y agoThere is a yak, and it is furry.
- EForEndeavour 6y agoFor the uninitiated: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving 1. Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem. I was doing a bit of yak shaving this morning, and it looks like it might have paid off. 2. A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task. I looked at a reference manual for my car just to answer one question, but I spent the whole afternoon with my nose buried in it, just yak shaving, and got no work done on the car itself.
- nkrisc 6y agoThe same reason people build and fly model airplanes even though it would be impossible to transport a financially viable amount of cargo on them. It's fun.