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.

A view of a desk with two monitors.  A vintage Atari 800XL computer is in the back, driving one monitor displaying the text "Don't type on me or my morbidly obese grandson again."  in front is a custom 130% PC keyboard with similar design language and colours.

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FYI that's a 15 meg image you attached. You might want to optimize that and upload a smaller version

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    More specifically, please don't use PNG for photos. Just converting to JPEG should do the trick.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    I think this instance does something weird with images. It was a ~4MB JPEG on the device, but when I downloaded it again, I got a webp listed at ~750kb, but it absolutely crawls to download. I just uploaded a 2000x1500 JPEG (~230k on disc) to Imgur to fix the performance.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What on earth is that mouse pad, son. Explain yourself. 🙎‍♂️

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That's a great job, well done!

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This is amazing, really excellent work.

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