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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Finally put a case around my Rasberry Pi 5 Zynthian.
- Pi 5 + Pi 5 Active Cooler
- Encoders on an Adafruit Perma-proto Half-sized Breadboard https://www.adafruit.com/product/1609
- Adafruit GPIO Bonnet - I2C I/O expander for the MCP23017 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4132
- HDMI 7” 800x480 Touch screen HDMI 7 800x480 Display Backpack - With Touchscreen : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits
- HDMI angled connectors with ribbon cable (can find these on amazon and adafruit)
- Zero4U - 4 Port USB Hub
- This provides additional USB ports for accessories - one on the left side and three at the bottom.
- Using outboard USB for audio and Midi - Behringer Euphoria UMC404HD
- SSK 512GB USB SSD for storage
- 3D printed case
- Added venting to top side after some heat issues
- Pi Power USB cable runs through hole on the top
- Main Pi USB and network ports accessible from hole on the left side
- Additional USB peripheral ports via USB hub on the left (x1) and the bottom (x3)
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Excellent!
Are the varying colours an efficient dazzle camouflage to break up the outlines for itinerant dance floor submarines that may be out there?
and of course, there’s the matter of this . . . .
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@wyleu Of course! This was made before I finished the case - does it satisfy the requirement?
- All sounds generated from the Zynthian
- Midi control via Launchpad, VCMC Eurorack module and the 303 sequenced via Ornament and Crime TB-3PO.
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Perfectly acceptable!
Less soup for you tonight!