Hey thank you very much! And yes big props to the machine shop people I definitely exasperated them a few times lol. Appreciate you watching and commenting!

Yeah, right side is for right handed people in a more or less mouse free environment. I think I'd take left side because of the mouse.

Hello fellow left numpad enjoyer. Glad to see I'm not the only one! Thanks for watching!

The "standard" num pad is supposed to be on the left. That's why the large enter and + keys are far right. They are supposed to be hit with your thumb. Pre smartphone people thought of their thumbs as their least articulate digits and thus would need larger targets.

@@MumrikDK Even in a mouse free environment all the navigation keys are on the right side. So still no excuse for the right side numpad.

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Thanks! Making code + cad/parts start working together is always a bit intimidating lol. Appreciate you watching!

Ansys is a fantastic tool! Thank you for watching!

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Its probably there to keep the gen alpha kids with an attention span of a gold fish from clicking off the video

Thanks! I always find hearing the machines going to be a nice happy sound (minus the worry of crashing something expensive!). Cheers!

All keyboards are good! Thank you for watching!

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Thank you for the kind comment! I gotta give credit though, it is not like I magically learnt how to use these machines. I've had courses in machining and design where I learnt the basics. This project helped refine those starting skills and I asked a LOT of questions throughout. The staff was fantastic for letting me work on this. And towards the end I was pretty independent! Thank you for watching!

I would encourage making a keyboard! It's a fun hobby and it's something you'll interact with everyday :)

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Nah the degree is a statement itself, congrats on getting it! And thank you for watching :)

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I try to do a retrospective on big projects and it is great that others are getting something out of it! Thank you for watching!

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Hey thank you very much!! And yes I dabble in fpv a friend got me into the hobby. Unfortunately the hobby is becoming a bit regulated. Thanks for watching!

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I got my master's in ME. I can tell you, the difference is either that between private school VS. state or that of main campus VS. sister campuses. I went to a sister campus _of a state school_ and we did not have ANY of this. MULTIPLE machinists/shop technicians and MULTIPLE CNC machines? A laser cutter? A water jet cutter? Dude is living in paradise, I'm so jealous! XD

@@Providence83 i am in the top university in my country... so was my brother. access to those tools was reserved only for the students of a specific lab and the student formula program. we don't get to play with them. and even the formula program was kicked out of that lab because the professor was stupid in my opinion since that our team has brought many good positions with limited funding. and in my country we only have state universities. for now at least. they are actively trying to change even though it is forbidden by the state. greece is one hell of a country...

@@hellNo116 I hope you don't find this insulting but I am sorry you live in Greece. Good culture with rather bad government institutions.

I appreciate the kind words! And I know I am fortunate to have access to the tools shown in the video. A lot of the tools were from a Makerspace (which is a sort of communal shop intended to bring down the barrier/cost of entry to using advanced machines). Some machines used were from the engineering department shop also. Hopefully with the current trends these tools will be mainstream for everyone. Thank you for watching!

@@conorarchdeacon this is such a great initiative. if i stay in my university for phd i might push for such a thing. maybe in a smaller scale to begin with with access to oscilloscopes and generators to start practicing outside of lab hours. we have this unofficially. i took advantage of it to finish a project in second year. however you needed to ask around to find out. also i have assembled an ergodash. custom keyboards are such a cool hobby and you for sure took it to the next level. you much have gotten insane inside after this whole project. hope to see more of that stuff

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I wasn't sure how people would react to me placing memes I found funny randomly throughout the video. Glad to hear it worked out - thank you for watching and for the nice comment!

I wanted to add symbols but it would've greatly increased complexity (every key becomes a unique one-off now). Other options I considered were decals, laser etching, sandblasting masked off areas, and of course cnc letters. Obviously I ended up not doing any of these lol. I really like the simplistic look no symbols gives the board. And of course as you mentioned it dissociates mapping in qmk to what the key says it is. Thanks for watching!

Hey thank you very much!! Pcb was a little intimidating but there is a lot of documentation out there to help out. Kicad is great at streamlining the process (you draw a circuit diagram, then assign footprints to components, and then place the footprints on the board). And Kicad ensures what you draw in the diagram gets hooked up in the board when routing. Two thumbs up from me. Best of luck with your projects!

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Thank you! Really appreciate it. These take a while but I'd like to do something again in the future

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The PCB and firmware was definitely one of the higher risk steps. Thanks for watching!

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Maybe!! Mice are a bit different since one of the "performance parameters" of a mouse is how light it is. Maybe as a statement piece :) thank you for watching!

Epic! Congrats and thanks for watching

I need to get into the habit of using the spacemouse more! It's a super cool tool. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the comment! I actually used a bullnose endmill for the case, but now that I'm thinking about it, it would've been great for the keycaps also. I was a little limited by the available cutters I had and didn't want to spend too much on endmills

@@conorarchdeacon Yea, I get that. I’ve got a desktop cnc at home that I chose to learn cnc on. I sunk quite a bit of money on end mills in the beginning learning expensive lessons lol

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Find something that interests you and pursue it! Doesn't have to be glamorous, just something that makes you happy :) thank you for watching!

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About the math - sorta both! Poron foam comes in a lot of different varieties and one of the parameters you can play with is the "pressure to compress the foam to 25% its original size" as this is usually given by the manufacturer. This lets you calculate out the pressure 14 bolts and the surface area of the keyboard would apply to the foam to get nice deformation, which can be controlled by how deep the slots on the keyboard are cut (deeper slot = less compression) at a higher level/rough numbers standpoint to pick a material you think will work for the design. I then lost the calculations, as in, I have no idea where they are. It ended up not being too important - I decided I didn't like the springy effect and added some extra height, which made the foam less bouncy by compressing it further. Working the machine shop for long days was definitely tiring but fun! I was allowed to have music going which helped. Having one machine running let me work on homework and projects in the down time, but two machines had me on my feet a lot more. And I'm excited for grad school! Thank you for the nice comment - I enjoyed reading and responding 😀

I agree! Might be a small project in the future. Thanks for watching!

I might give it a shot! I still think there could be some work done on the sounds, especially the spacebar. Thanks for watching and the feedback!

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Now that I'm thinking about it, I cannot recall ever seeing a keyboard in star wars. Don't they all use holograms? Either way thank you for watching!

I don't intend to distribute cad files at the moment but if you found this interesting I would encourage you to give it a shot with something small like a numpad! There is a lot of documentation out there to help you along. It looks intimidating but a lot of the up front work is done in a circuit diagram, then the "hard" part is routing everything aesthetically. Thank you for watching :)

2kg (4.5lb)! Thanks for watching!

I probably won't release cad files. That being said, keycap profiles are well documented and can be designed very easily. There is totally no code needed for this (besides CNC g-code which you should have a minimal understanding of what the machine thinks you want it to do but totally don't need to be proficient). Since you have access to a CNC machine and are interested in making your own I think this would be a fantastic starter project (maybe doing an escape key or WASD, otherwise it gets kinda long)! The cad is minimal, and you'll always need cam (the toolpaths) for using the CNC. There's clever fixtures and design for manufacturing, but this is just considering the sequence of operations you do while making the key. Actually making a few keycaps would take a short amount of time once you get going, most of the thinking happens up front. Hope this helps and thank you for watching!

Yeah I thought about it (cnc the symbols, put on decals, sandblast taped off areas) but it would've greatly increased the complexity as every key becomes a one-off. I probably won't add symbols and just get good with touch typing. The keys have a smooth texture, they do start off cold to the touch. Thanks for watching!

@@conorarchdeacon Thanks for the reply, legendary video!

I left them blank. I didn't want to add decals and I thought adding letters would detract from the overall look. So I am learning to touch type. Thanks for watching!

I use Parallels (a paid subscription virtual machine) to run Ansys and Solidworks on the go. For heavier computations/modeling, I use my PC. But my laptop goes wherever I go and on the fly stuff is possible with Parallels which is invaluable to me. Thanks for watching!

I use both but I find the HSMWorks integration a bit clunky. Fusion is also more streamlined for Apple silicon, and my laptop is with me wherever I go (and thus my models/real time editing are also). Other options include running Solidworks virtually or remoting into my PC, but it's not fantastic. Thanks for watching!

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Only 2/4 of them lol! the holes were tapped so it didn't really affect anything. I just lost the head so I couldn't get them out (hence needing to weld a arm to them to get more leverage. Thanks for watching

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 14 in C-Sharp Minor. Thanks for watching!

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A lot more than to buy a off the shelf keyboard! I intentionally left money out of the video but I did carefully track expenses resources (time, money, material) closely in a spreadsheet. Thank you for watching!

Hah, maybe a future project! Thanks for watching!

aluminum.... steel.....

I'm sure your keyboard is great :) thank you for watching and commenting!

I didn't know that was an option! Maybe something to look into in the future :). Thanks for watching!

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