Fair enough. Going for two keyboards. 1 for home 1 for office. Parts I've more or less decided on for the office keyboard:-

Office
Chengal wood case
Acryllic plate
Gateron black
DSA keycaps
B.mini pcb
Cherry stabilisers
Teensy 2.0 controller
1N4148W diodes

Am I missing anything from the list?

loving it, except when it goes haywire since I reprogram it directly by modifying the source code. Unplug and replug will do the trick.

Yeah its an aluminium case. But you can get original poker 2 case from anyone here, provide same support for pcb.
In term of noise, not so much different in loudness, but you don get that metal pitch sound especially on spacebar.
And the feel, its solid enough, and do seems to be abit softer if you always bottoms out. Its my go to keyboard for office use.

you do not need teensy controller for B.MINI build in .acrylic plate can be bought from winkeyless so might as well

This post has been edited by cloud8992: Apr 29 2015, 08:39 PM

Chengal wood case, sounds interesting to me..

Oh sweet! No need for controller then! In what situation is the teensy used for then? I can't seem to find the plate on winkeyless. Just acrylic case.

Btw, I won't need a controller for the GH60 Satan as well right? I'm looking at that for my second keyboard. This one will be for gaming, so I don't need the function keys. B.mini is fantastic for office as its small, has direction keys and the function keys.


I'm picking up my wooden blocks this weekend! Can't wait. I haven't figured out how to chop it yet though. Apparently it is stupid hard to work with.

teensy is use when there is no controller on the board example: hand wiring your own keyboard, phantom PCB (western custom keybaord)
its better for you to use GH60 as your office keyboard cause the B series keyboard is famous for their under glow LED if you use wood will just block the leds.

Winkeyless acrylic case comes with acrylic plate.

This post has been edited by justordinary: Apr 29 2015, 10:57 PM

What facilities/equipment do you have? A cnc milling machine?
I have built the lyn keyboard and have a cnc aluminum keyboard in production
zennasyndroxx is an expert is designing custom keyboard
he will help if he is paid with the right amount of consultation fees



This post has been edited by yuktsi14: Apr 29 2015, 11:28 PM

Yes it does. But I won't know what to do with the acrylic case as I only need a plate at the moment.


I have no facilities or equipment lol. However, I have found someone on LYN with a laser cutting machine to cut the keyboard although he is more into PC modding than keyboard modding. The principles should be the same? Thanks for the help though, much appreciated! That is a very nice keyboard btw. Love what people do to their keyboards. Maybe people start making custom mouse next?

Currently, I am planning on experimenting with different materials for casing. A bit ambitious as I haven't even started on my first keyboard but one can always dream.

Well, know what material you're playing with. Cutting wood is a little tricky, I've used to cut those small F1 cars(F1 in school) out of wooden block(very low density wood), it's very easy to get burnt, hard wood might be a little different but I can predict the edges probably will have very slight burnt mark or appear darker. Well, that's with my experience on a old CNC machine few years back.

Laser cutting? Laser cutting wood? Can meh? Laser only can etch wood only wor, if cut, means cut through one for laser, too thick also cannot cut through. It cannot like cut to certain depth like CNC, except if you're talking about the plate. Need very precise design, or else the switch cannot mount properly. Just my 2cents.

You still in Combodia? zennasyndroxx is waiting for your reply regarding the Custom LYN MKB.
I am going to get one too. LOL. It's VERY EPIC!

No leh. Laser cut acrylic plate Not sure how I'm going to do the case also! Thinking of the round edges like tables. Got so much to read about wood work!


what custom LYN MKB?

Oh, haha, I got you wrong then. Good luck working on the wooden case.

The LYN custom MKB is very interesting. Korean PCB

Check yuktsi14's post above. You'll see the LYN MKB epicness!!

Thank you thank you! There must be a woodwork thread somewhere here lol.




Is that the LYN custom keyboard? hahahaha I really like the acrylic case with frosted topping!

I don't know is this plate mounted or PCB mounted... The transparent acrylic is confusing my eyes. LOL.
Mind tell more?
Thanks.

Plate mount ba, I think the acrylic top gonna be frosted no? I know who to ask hehehe, and this is a must buy on my list XD.

u can ask shop to cut the wood for u

I'm curious about clear and green switches would be suitable for what kind of application ? Gaming ?