I am very sorry to say that I’ve just let this project fall by the wayside. I started down this road when I had a lot of downtime and as it got closer to a reality my work picked back up. With how busy I’ve been and two toddlers at home, my free time has become extremely limited. I would still very much like to get this done but the last time I checked in with my manufacturers the prices were too high to make this possible, I am just not in the position to take on an extra project that might lose me money right now.
I will check back in with the manus to see if pricing has changed at all but from what I’ve heard lately, everything is still on short supply and prices are still a little nutty.
Again, sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve just been at a standstill with this project.
I was contacted by the creators of the Ingot66 to see if this could be compatible with their case as well. That interaction has got me to start looking at this thing again. I am having some modifications done to the plate to accommodate burger mounting and also testing to see if this could work with the Ingot66 as well. I will be reaching out to the PCB manu this week to get a new quote.
Just wanted to post here and say that I can no longer work on this project, although that may have been pretty obvious already.
If anyone is interested in picking this up where I left off, I will be more than happy to share any information/files that I have with you. I will also be selling everything I have related to this project, so if you’re interested in that as well, just shoot me a message. I plan to post the Heavy-6 case, PCBs, and all of the plates I have made in the Classifieds section soon.
Thanks to everyone who showed interested, sorry I couldn’t bring it to market.
If like to echo tato on this one: your product photos inspired me to try to achieve the same on topre, and Dave has since made an entire controller for this purpose. We appreciate your efforts
Similar open source PCB adapted for Heavy-6 mx setup (it does NOT have split backspace).
(Do not populate the mini-usb connector and it fits in the heavy-6 case… or bonus challenge populate it and try to figure out the least destructive way to remove it… I learned the hard way )
Bent plate or some kind of stacked plate would be necessary. A flat plate did not have enough strength in the middle due to only having screws on the left and right sides of the case. I tried 2 different design of 3d printed 4.5mm plate which still had too much bounce. Ended up cutting a stock fc660m plate for mine which worked great.
