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   ewen_cluney.txt (nekoewen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 09:51:24 JST ewen_cluney.txt

   As I work on building keyboards out of the new PCBs I had made, I've produced some cool things and also I think the "Misfit Toys" section of my Etsy shop is going to get some new entries. Or maybe one big one just called "Ewen's Box of Failures."

   Dear Open-Source Keyboard Designers:

   I love you, but using surface-mount diodes and MCUs with castellations is going to end me.

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     emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 09:51:17 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

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     @nekoewen "aren't split keyboard halves usually further apart than that? also aren't power and ground usually on opposite corners of an IC with two rows of pins, and it's kind of weird to have to run power to one side of your keyboard and ground to the other?"

     yes, good point. fortunately we have 0-ohm resistors, which are just the thing to solve both problems

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 09:51:21 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

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     @nekoewen you can also use it for split keyboards

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     emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 09:51:24 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

     in reply to

     @nekoewen try my new thing