#Dactyl #DactylManuform completed 🎉. Gazzew Boba U4T switches and Rasperry Pi Pico MCUS.

Almost immediately after building my daily driver mechanical keyboard, I realized that I had a single bad solder joint resulting in the tilde through the number 4 intermittently not working without a little percussive maintenance.

It took me a year to be annoyed enough (and inconveniently dying in a video game) to finally fix it. Took about 5 minutes.

#dactylmanuform #patience

So the great dactyl manuform keyboard print has started again. This time the upper right hand part.
I've started doing the diodes and testing key switchs

#keybords #dactylmanuform #3dprint

Maybe there are some nerds around here who will appreciate this first iteration of my late stage pandemic project: build a handful of mechanical keyboards.

This one is my daily driver, a handwired #DactylManuform, codename "Spumoni," built summer 2021.

Sometimes I feel silly for building a boss workstation with an excellent video card when my gaming preferences are usually things like #Angband, #DwarfFortress, and pre-y2k #emulation.

That said, there are many giveaways that you're in a middle aged geek's office... one of them has got to be spotting a handmade ergo (team #DactylManuform) or 40% mech... with a detached numpad on the sidecar.

after months (almost a year) of planning, replanning, and scrapping those plans and starting over. parts have started to arrive for my #dactylmanuform.

Today trackball and OLED screens. tomorrow PBC for the trackball
(AA battery for scale)