EC Nasu with GMK Muted and heavy domes thanks to Dynacap and Cipulot for the PCB. Had to dremel the PCB on some edges to fit into the case (RIP underglow and indicator lights).
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wow that is one remarkable keyboard
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And it’s done, at least for now. I may add a pen-rail later, and maybe even reprint the case someday if the little (and the big) imperfections in this one rankle, but I wanted a shiny purple Mac Kishsaver homage, and by god that is what this is! Bottom out is fairly firm, even with the gasket-ish mount, and MX tactiles generally seem to put the event so early in the force curve that I think I’m bottoming out harder than I do on my usual linear blacks or heavy clickies. This one would be quite the project to rebuild, and as one of my “specific purpose” builds I’m less worried about making it a daily driver, but it is interesting to learn what works and doesn’t for my own fingers. I might also try backing the case screws out just a bit, since that seems to help in some commercial boards.
This is probably the first time I’ve ever modified a print to add layer lines back. The front edges of the two cases didn’t align perfectly, and my efforts to mitigate that worked structurally, but not visually. I did a two-layer print based on the front face of each half and super-glued them on, more or less restoring the original texture, since the original prints were vertical.
ZMK firmware seems to be working very well, although MacOS doesn’t seem to like the Hold-tap I put on the CapsLock key. The actual layer shift functionality works fine though, so I just added a mapping in ZMK studio to give myself a backup. It was really serendipitous that some very user-friendly tools for ZMK started popping up just when I was diving into it. Pretty cool!
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Wow!