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lampeyeannoying OP t1_j656sdq wrote

Reply to comment by Saltifaction in ScottoLong in the wild - 40s are awesome! What to build next? by lampeyeannoying

Good guess! This is my work desk, it's one of our core products, an industrial cellular data logger with a range of features. Usually housed in a large stainless steel enclosure with solar panel and battery. This is a "naked" one on my desk, and the black plastic box to the right of it is a glorified place to mount my buttons and switches for it. The white thing on the left is a temp sensor made in house, with solar radiation shields so it isn't affected by the direct sunlight.

Usually used for serious solutions, our desk ones are for fun/testing, i.e. there's a sensor on the front door that connects to this via UHF radio, when the door opens the logger flashes the LED for 5sec. We design and build these in house, we have our own SMD plant.

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NoOne-NBA- t1_j654rl0 wrote

Reply to Oh the agony by patcoll

This one's a definite improvement over the original.

You should cross-post this to r/HandwiredKeyboards.
It's a smaller sub, dedicated to boards like this one.

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patcoll OP t1_j6502lf wrote

Reply to Oh the agony by patcoll

This is a hand-wired board I made, nicknamed Agony. It's a split space version of the Pain27. I'm typing on it right now :)

I put together a summary of the keymap I run:

https://imgur.com/a/X2rDBK2

I use the same keymap on all my boards, 40s to 65s, and because there are multiple options to accomplish the same kinds of tasks (like triggering mods), it scales up and down to any layout I use.

On a board this small, you need shortcuts. You also need multiple options to do things like triggering mod keys:

  • O+P combo for Backspace.
  • A+S combo for Tab.
  • S+D and J+K combos for Escape.
  • Hold down Q for Ctrl.
  • Hold down K+L combo for Ctrl.

And more. Check out the image linked above and zoom in to check out all the options.

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