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It's #PCBWay Day! Boards for the 1:3 scale keyboards are here and waiting to be soldered up, flashed up, and then gently installed into their smol cases.
#vt100 #kicad #miniatures #keyboards

Ok! The LEDs on the test #VT100 keyboard work, as does the haptic motor which together with the keyboard grid working as expected means that the PCBs are validated!

The only electrical tweak will be to swap the interboard cable ports for, I think JST-PH. There's a bit of room on the PCB for vector art so I may whip up something fun.

Thanks again to #PCBWay for funding the fabrication and assembly of these prototype PCBs. Their validation engineers gave me (a non-EE) a solid assist or two.

OK! The VT100 keyboard switch and LED boards are working their way through the machines of https://PCBWay.com who were kind enough to cover the costs. While those are in flight I'll complete the keyboard case design and nail down the key and cap production method which consists of resin printing 83 shafts per board, molding and baking polymer clay caps around the shafts, and then coating and curing a protective layer of UV resin.
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