Beautiful design!!
Is there a PCB holding the switches on the control side?
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some switches and caps arrived. I put in brown. No click. A tactile bumb (that is to tactile for me to confirme). Blacks are no click no tactile harder than red which are otherwise alike. Blue has click. My Romoral keypad could be ordered with blue og red, and i stupidly ordered blue, and my family reacted instantly to the clicking noise.
I also ordered some low profile switches, but they had a slightly different pin layout. Whatch out for that.
Images:
Blue and low profile brown and some caps:
Different pinout on the low profiles - hard to see, but the lowest pin is different. On the brown it is centered, on the white it is a bit to the right. The white one is the correct pin layout for my romoral keypads:
Assembled with brown switches (no click - normal profile) and some different style of caps:
- with different height of the caps i hope that there will be some physical reference that tells my fingers where they are!
All the best..
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I’m adding this link to a Topic created by @gadg3ts with an article about a very cool new Zynthian with a DIY Wooden Keyboard to Success Cases:
Just to make it easier to find.
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Alright I think it’s finally basically done. Custom DIY Zynthian. The potentiometer/buttons board is hand soldered perf-board with a through-hole MCP23017, Screen is an Elecro 5” DSI touchscreen. Have a Waveshare PCIe M.2 + USB3.2 hat(thus the extra usb ports). Audio interface is the Zoom LiveTrak L6 portable mixer.
Housing is a 3D printable Eurorack skiff. Keycaps are from Printables. The faceplate, pi mount plate, pot knobs, and vent blank are all custom made by me. I may redo the Pi mount plate.
I’m still waiting on a panel mount usb-c extender to power the whole thing(rather than the extender just sticking out of a hole I drilled), but at least at this point it is usable and portable.
And the nice thing about the eurorack skiff is if I ever decide I want to finish building the eurorack modules I started on years ago, I can print an expander and add them.
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