I first started on the “Overton130” design several years ago. At first, like most homebrew small-run designs of the time, it did a sandwich cse. I eventually added inserts to close the gaps on the case, but it still didn’t feel commercial-grade.
JLCPCB, aside from making the PCBs, has a huge resin printer on offer and I tried a case inspired by the Focus FK-9000 (not shown), but I still wanted something that said “bought” rather than “built” so I spent a fair bit of time in FreeCAD riffing on the nicest industrial design on the 1980s.
Key specs: Box Pale Blues, NovelKeys stabs, G90 Galvanized Steel plate, 3mm thick aluninium sheet bottom. The PCB (4th revision) uses a CH32V305 MCU breakout (it theoretically supports a Teensy++ but that hasn’t been tested) and custom firmware. Main caps are AFSA Chocolateur knockoff, top row is MA with home laser charring, and the left block is home-lasered XDA, in the weird dark-orange colour YMDK sells.
FYI that’s a 15 meg image you attached. You might want to optimize that and upload a smaller version
More specifically, please don’t use PNG for photos. Just converting to JPEG should do the trick.
What on earth is that mouse pad, son. Explain yourself. 🙎♂️
Arataki Itto.
Yeah, the personality would be abrasive but he was basically the first hunk-coded character in the game.
This is actually my second one; a friend purloined my first one upon discovering the ergonomic charms of oni-boobs.
Oh, son…
Im jealous
That keyboard is fricking sick!
I love old style Unix era keyboard, with the side and extra function keys.
Its just such a tribute to old school keyboards Well done!
So to clarify this is a custom PCB in a custom case? The end result is very impressive, and looks totally manufactured. I’m a big fan of media keys on the left, and you never can have too many F keys
Yep. Been riffing on the PCB for a few years, so now I have seperate units for home and work wuth different cases.
That’s a great job, well done!
This is amazing, really excellent work.
Looks rad!
