Keymacs V515N: Lispsaver

For those of you who do not know my project, for a couple of years I have been interested in making reproductions of Symbolics keyboards. In recent years, I also made a couple of Space Cadets and I have decided to go more mainstream by making V5xx Series of keyboards. The first model is a 60% keyboard (here with Alps SKCM Cream Damped switches, i.e., the worst sounding vintage alps :wink:):

This is basically a minified version of the new-style Symbolics design, unlike the previous models, the case is slightly higher so now I can support MX switches as well. The V5xx Series is meant to be as general as possible, the only constraint is 5 rows of keys. The layout, size, and shape of the keyboard can be arbitrary. I have also made this V507QT numpad/navpad as an example:

More info can be found on my web.

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I’ve been following your projects for several years @lispnick and I can’t quite describe just how happy seeing your work makes me. Your keyboards are like some kind of evidence that we live in a universe of free will and goodness. If I were a philosopher of metaphysics I would coin the “Keymacs practical postulate of goodwill moral libertarianism,” or something.

Ok I know that’s ridiculously over the top, but I’m only half joking. Keep up the amazing work!

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Seriously. It’s stuff like this that keeps this hobby alive and interesting. The progression and work has been bonkers.

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