Keyboards with wells like Maltron, kinesis advantage family, and all dactyl style keyboards are great. Believe us, this is our first-hand information. But if you want to create your own curvy girl, how can you achieve this shape without 3D printing, clever carpentry, or using molds and plastic molding equipment? Well, there’s another way. On twitter (translation) (threadreader: Japanese, English), [tsukasa\u metam] creates contour lines of vertical interlaced keys by stacking PCBs to achieve key well effect.
Cityscape’s circuit boards are screwed together to ensure mechanical integrity, but these screws work overtime to provide electrical connections between layers. We particularly like the driving force of this construction, rather than “I thought of it, let’s do it” – [tsukasa\u metam] tends to input errors in the sense of double buttons, for example, when a is the expected target and Q is input at the same time. This is no longer a problem between the key travel of 3.2 mm, the step height of 2.8 mm and the F10 flat key cap.
Tsukasa\u metam (tsukasa\u metam) does not use the popular lightweight kailh Choc switch, but TTC ks32s, a new switch launched in 2020. Unlike chocolate, as long as they wear short skirts, they will wear cherry MX style keycaps. Cityscape is not completely open source, but the idea already exists. We happen to have a strange input and special peripheral competition, which continues until July 4.
Do stacked PCBs look familiar? Hey, it’s easier than winding a transformer coil.