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Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead by souterrain on Sunday December 15, 2019 @06:37PM (#21799732)
I was looking for something close to this design, particularly with low profile switches. Thanks.
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Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead by souterrain on Sunday December 15, 2019 @07:15PM (#21799893)
Alas, it is presently unobtainium. I guess I need to consider building my own split keyboard using Cherry ML switches.
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Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead by sezna on Sunday December 15, 2019 @07:44PM (#21800018)
This is similar and in stock, if you’re okay assembling it. They have great build documentation.

https://keeb.io/collections/keyboard-pcbs/products/quefrency...

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Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead by souterrain on Sunday December 15, 2019 @09:00PM (#21800286)
The build looks reasonably straightforward. I suspect I wouldn't be able to use low-profile switches with this, but I'll fully admit I'm not well versed in keyboard assembly.

Thanks for this. I'm getting closer to what I'm looking for.

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Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead by ianhowson on Sunday December 15, 2019 @10:04PM (#21800521)
I bought an MD650L and found the switches to be unusably bad. I, too, wished for a low-profile Quefrency.

I'm comfortable designing and assembling PCBs but don't really have time to debug a brand-new design, so I've ordered a low-profile Lily58 kit. The Lily58 is most of what I want and has open source PCB, schematic and case. If it doesn't work for me, I'm expecting to modify it to something more like Quefrency.

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Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead by eyeball on Sunday December 15, 2019 @08:04PM (#21800100)
https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
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