deskthority

OMG! That's a lot of work then.
There are no suitable 5V charge pump LED drivers around? Maxim/Dallas? Ti? Linear? Anybody?

EDIT:
What about MAX1698 and MAX16826?
I started here

The reason for 3 positions instead of two, is that the third position gives me an extra pad I can use to allow me to solder a small SMT resistor to each LED.
If LEDs are connected in series, and you split them over 5 rows, you'll just need a resistor for each row, and then to close to GND the ...

Even though this Cap Lock thing is gonna be a huge hassle, it affords me the opportunity to do something apart of the fix itself... Pic should explain all. I'll be using the filler piece to serve as a hole for a shroud to pass through. Beneath the plate, will be an LED to illuminate Caps Lock state ...

Muirium wrote: Like I would ever say that!.

It was a curiosity. I have no intention to provoke a sort of holy war.

Ehm... it seems I was wrong.
I have to apologize with the vendor.
I don't even took a ruler. It is so evident and clear I was wrong...

Thanks everybody for the precious information. I learnt a lot in this thread.

(That central stem position though...)

Because vim style cursor keys in a layer are so much more comfortable.
j-k-l-; == left-down-up-right
Surely you need to constantly press some modifier, even for basic text navigation. I know it could be a matter of getting used to but, in the long run, isn't it tiresome for the hands?
I just do ...

Muirium wrote: That does make sense. But one counterexample is my homemade 60%:

Although I find it simply gorgeous, I wonder how do you 60% enthusiasts can live without cursor and function keys.
I'd be simply lost without them.

Edit: sort of ninja'd by Halvar, whose gaps argument is so obvious I wonder it had been doubted at all :mrgreen:

Yep, I didn't think I'd need to explain it at that time in that meticulous detail or take photos, when the thing can be decided in seconds once the OP, the spacebar and a ruler are ...

Everything else on that layout seems fine to me. I like it, otherwise! Just... I gotta say no to shifting an entire row 1u over, when the more obvious solution is to buck the ISO trend and stop placing [\] to the left of [Z]. Just my opinion.
I appreciated your opinion, and agree on the weird ...

Oh, it seems I'm in error then, even if the stems position do not match the plate produced by keyboard-layout-editor and SwillKb web tools.

Anyway, the vendor is going to arrange a new shipment to provide me with all the 6u spacebars they manufacture.
Looks like I'll have - at least - to pay for ...

1 unit is the distance between the centers of two 1 u keys on a keyboard. Every keycap is 1 gap size smaller than the number of units it takes. A 1 unit cap is 1 gap smaller than 0.75''. A 6 unit space bar is 1 gap smaller than 6 * 0.75''.
If it was true, we should warn the author of the keyboard ...

I said everything. :)
Talk. ;) Did you measure yours?
The white spacebar on the last picture is clearly shorter than the black one on the board.
Perspective, my friend. :)
You can check it by comparing the alphas in the upper rows, progressively less wide than the lower ones.
I haven't the ...

There are gaps, but wouldn't all those 1u gaps make this picture impossible for a true 6.0 unit spacebar?
I can only agree with you. :)
The seller sounds like a chancer. The only way to deal with them is with firm, uncertainty-free, facts. Such as the direct measurement you mention. It'll be 6.25 ...

Maybe it's me?

u = unit = 1u = a single unit
6u = a single unit * 6
1.25u = a single unit + 0.25u (1 + 1/4 of unit)

The layout spacing isn't part of the sum. Do We refer to keycaps units of measurements, or to their clearance inside a keyboard layout?

Please, let me understand why this theory ...

Watched the whole thread. A lot of original solutions. Really brilliant ones.
My approach is a little more "classic".
I believe that Matias Mini is simply fantastic for a general purpose utilisation, and I slightly customised it for a more programmers-friendly everyday layout:

mymatias.PNG

And ...

Muirium wrote:

Corummo wrote: Indeed. I love it. Still alive and kicking, in my retro-stuff collection.

Here's mine:

Great piece of hardware, when things were made to last forever.
The weight of that keyboard is on par with my Clevo desktop replacement.

Their reply is crap.
Total length for the "alpha" part of most (pretty much 99%) keyboards is 15u wide.
You actually need a 6u spacebar, and not a 6.25u.
Yep. That's the dimension included into their set, when you pick their "6u bottom row" option...

Anyway, this is the layout I designed with the ...

Muirium wrote: Your AT was quite different, notoriously so!

Indeed. I love it. Still alive and kicking, in my retro-stuff collection.
This!

Thanks for your quick replies.
It's just the size I ordered, within a bottom layout of 1.5u - 1u - 1.5u - 6u - 1.5u - 1u - 1u - 1.5u
I'm argueing with the vendor from 10 days now, because they sent me the wrong sized bar.

The post sales support writes things like: "On the keyboard, there is gap ...

Hello Deskthority! :)
This is my first post here, and I hope to write in the correct section.
I'm an aged programmer, who will never forget the feeling of his IBM AT keyboard back in the glorious days of personal computing dawn. :)
I own several mechanical keyboards, and I started to thinkering ...