Comment on Finished my DIY keyboard with printed case, feet, and RPi Pico "caddy". Keycaps are not 3d printed, but the labels were DIY from my laser.

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wjrii@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Doing it on the keyboard could very easily work, but I have a laser-cut jig that holds twenty-six 1u keycaps, and has one open-ended spot for anything up to maybe 3u. I considered 3D-printing the jig, but 30 minutes on the laser made more sense than 5 hours on the printer.

This plastic didn't love my "Infusible ink" pens, so the legends are duller than the last time I did this, but the jig helped a lot alignment, as did adjusting my ambitions and expectations. Much less disappointing to land 1 off when you can pretend you wanted it there all along, and that is much easier to do with corner legends versus centered. :-)

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