Finished third build, I have an ebay problem...
Reposted cause I'm dumb and don't know how reddit works despite lurking for like nearly 2 decades.
Bought some plum and twist PCBs awhile back with the intention of designing and building a dactyl. Wanted to dust off my already shotty soldering, and found a lumberjack PCB/kit on ebay for a screamin' deal, figured it'd be a cheap/fun way to brush up. We all know how it goes next...
Eventually decided it might be fun to try and see how decent I could get a case/keycaps using an FDM printer and post-processing. That case did come out really nice, shoutout to bondo, but this datamancer clamshell popped up on ebay for cheap, and its too perfect for the lumberjack to not use, so I swapped it out.
FDM printed some KLP Lamé MX keycaps in ABS, and vapor smoothed them down after they finished. They actually are quite pleasant. Switches were some NOS banana splits from LOOBED, also courtesy of ebay.
I think all told my BOM, including the case, switches, filament, pcb, and some poron foam came out to like $80. Which honestly, isn't bad. Keyboard isn't a daily driver, its my home setup's alternate when I'm not playin games.
Already started my next build, need to replace my lily58 at work, which I've bastardized over the years, so building out a sofle. One day I'll take the time to do the dactyl right lmao.