casually is possessed with the devil's mischief

i feel like describing what i did with my evening but no one will actually be impressed that i have done a ridiculous thing, so it's going in the next post under a CW. yes it's about a keyboard.

mechanical keyboard, sakura style 

so hey! what i did was take a 60% keyboard pcb, add mill-max hotswap sockets to it, which took roughly... 5 hours. it's seriously tedious.

HOWEVER one ONE (1) ONE! of the switch contact holes is slightly smaller than all the others. it's out of spec and so the socket would not fit on it. there is ONE FUCKING KEY on this thing that has to be soldered in.

anyway

this sakura set was very much not made for this layout of board. substitutions and gaps.

re: mechanical keyboard, sakura style 

@astra you are a very powerful tanuki

re: mechanical keyboard, sakura style 

@RustyRetro YES thank you hahhahahah

i'm actually realizing a mistake i made with the stabilizers, and also a way to deal with the key gap. and i actually dislike this key set but eh

re: mechanical keyboard, sakura style 

@RustyRetro i like the colors of it though!! and the hangul subs! ach

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