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Very nice! Did you make the mounting plate yourself? What are the dimensions for the cutouts? Do you have any files you could share? :)

The entirety of this keyboard i designed/cut/bent/welded myself. The cutout for the switches, i went for 15,02mm square, that is rather tight.
It is suitable ...

Well, i got it painted, powdercoat RAL 6027. It makes the keyboard also way less cold to touch. I went for a fine structure finish, because i'm sure a gloss one would be covered in fingerprints in few nanoseconds. The colour i'm not that sure about, but if anything - i think it would be fitting for ...

simple foot mechanism i came up with, using those spring-loaded ball studs.
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two nuts holding it together are not on this photo, but you can see where they would go, just holding the outer "knob" to ...

Actually, older (some 1920s-1930s) Cadillacs had pinstriping. So did some European luxury cars. All done by hand.

You would just want some tasteful accent lines, not a full Himsl or Roth hot rod style.


i like Ed Roth's cars and drawings, but this is a bit different style, i think simple accent ...

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Here's a closeup of the third mouse button assembly with the printed keys/holder. i went through few iterations, thinning out the "hinge" on the keys, because it was way too stiff.


Hey! This project is completely awesome! Do you still have your code?

I'd like to ...

Black with gold pinstriping.

With a little practice on pieces of scrap metal, it's easier to do freehand pinstriping than you might think.

You can also get gold transfer letters for that Simplex style.


i have a bit of an idea how to draw using brush and ink, so i guess that's rather similar ...

This is a very cool project. Will it be left in the raw or do you have plans for a finish? Your hand wiring is very clean, good job.

Thank You very much!
It will be painted, except the aluminium parts, those will be left raw. The rest of the case is mild steel and has to be painted, but i have a ...

Taking it apart requires unscrewing those four M3 screws on the front:
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And loosening those four on the back:
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It is enough to just loosen them, no need to take them out completely. this is because these screws hold both bottom and top of the case to ...

How did you build the case and what's that thing in the middle - relay? Also, is it wired or wireless, and if wireless - how did you implement the antenna?


The case is of my own design, i drew it in cad, cut on a turret punch, bent, and the bottom also has two bits welded in it. The top and ...

Hello everyone still alive on DT,
I just wanted to share a project that has been my sort of personal keyboard-related dream since i've got my first badly beaten ES100 keyboard module.
I fell in love with the switches, but the keyboard was unusable to me because of the layout. I really frequently use ...

Using discord for showing your projects is terrible. I really hope DT doesn't go down completely or if it does, somebody creates another forum like it, because discord is an INSTANT MESSAGE service, not a forum. it cannot replace what a forum is, which is providing SEARCHABLE INFORMATION. However, i ...

Phone pics are getting pretty good these days…


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I got these Cherry doubleshots—drilled for a TrackPoint mod—from the DT Surprise Box way back in the day.


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I knew I should have bought more than one Tsangan kit in Wodan's GMK ...

TNT wrote: 09 Jul 2024, 00:07 Cool! What is the socket in the middle for?

to plug in the relay you can see in the video

Thanks so much! Amazing work

No problem! if anybody needs the measurements, or cad drawings of the cutouts for enter key mechanism - i can provide some. In the meantime, here is a case idea i had for the factory keyboard modules. Mostly to test out some ideas before building the fullsize version ...

Recently i have acquired two olympia ES series typewriter keyboards, one in very nice condition and one in rather bad condition. Since then i have converted the nicer board to stm32 controller, reading up on posts from Purdobol, as he has mapped out the matrix nicely, big thanks if You read this. I ...

And one dedicated to DT....


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that is very minor corrosion, a bit of wire brush and some sort of rust inhibitor (i use the ones that come as clear liquid, just be careful not to inhale it, quite toxic), but they work great on cars. The membranes well you will only find out when you open it up. usually you can clean up some black ...

Chicony KB-5581 w/ trackball (& probably Cherry MX Blue) and a couple of other keyboards that I don't recognize for 300 CZK in Prague

IBM Model M (1391412) in Bratislava, Slovakia gone about an hour later


i'm 99% sure the other boards are monterey k208. Hard to see because of the foil, you ...

seperated by all my keyboards (and most of my other stuff) by 300km due to moving soon.
this is my work daily driver rn.
gifted to me during dt secret santa, modified with some nice, thick ds alps keycaps. those white alps clones really sing in that flimsy plastic chassis. I love it !
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I’m always thinking about making wired boards wireless, thanks to Hasu so revolutionising my HHKBs. I put in so much time on these guys because of how convenient and compelling they are. My Realforce could sorely need some of that love, but the great big beige USB A cable on it (uncoiled and ...

Go-Kart wrote: 03 Feb 2024, 01:13 Missed my Bigfoot. Picked this Old Logo up last week. First experience of Pine Blacks - like 'em.

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I only got the newer bigfoots, but i also quite like em pretty keyboard you've got!

This is a drawer-type structure that allows the player to finish assembling the liner before the front sequence, and then finally just push the tray into the space capsule and you’re done. Isn’t it very simple and even a bit “novelty”?

Maybe I'm too old and tired, but I didn't understand a ...

Yes, chat and forums are completely different things. Forums have whole threads grouped together for all time, searchable and browsable. Chat prizes the opposite: its ever drifting immediacy.

The popular assumption seems to be that there’s a generational divide, however, with younger people ...

The recent several days downtime was long enough to finally get me on "DT" Discord. It's… different. We complained about DT's hosting a lot and discussed archival, but keyboards not so much. I’m just more at home on a forum with persistent state than live text.


Same, I still use IRC some but ...

Muirium wrote: 26 Jan 2024, 21:42 Suffering succotash! You done fixed it. What an upgrade.

huge upgrade to me! i think i like the box pink switches a bit more than the jades. Also those black caps look much better i think

I think this case is so much more attractive looking than the usual cherry style.

Another one of my 1800s undergone the same surgery this time it was a bit easier

rocco_16v wrote: 28 Dec 2023, 08:39 Main home setup M122 + DT225


Secondary computer DataComp DFK191

Really nice boards. Lovely

Some more interesting boards i recently got and fooled around with:
Wyse pce which i bought already outfitted with box jades. Desoldered original controller, soldered in stm32 blackpill, and managed to power it through the original port, with a matching cable:
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Buzzer would be pretty neat if it's actually enabled in firmware. You should be able to check for a signal on whatever pin goes between Q2 and the controller. If you see a square wave blip when you push a key then you're good to go.

Do a bit of reverse engineering and figure out which pins are ...