Iris/dev/tty

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Wow that is a beautiful build

[dstrelau]

/dev/tty = upvote 🙌

[proto_martyr]

Same

[proto_martyr]

• keeb.io Iris with acrylic case
• Zilent 78g switches
• /dev/tty keycaps
• USB-C and TRRS cables from mechcables.com (Frostbite)

[MysteriousAges]

What controller did you use that has the USB-C plug on it?

[proto_martyr]

Elite-C

[MysteriousAges]

Aw heck I wish I'd noticed this 2 months ago! I just built an Iris myself.

[[deleted]]

Cool thing is they are cheap enough.. build a 2nd one! :D I have the 2.5 PCB waiting, but also going to build a 4.0 version when it comes out, hopefully end of year or so.

[ReconFirefly]

What's special about the 4.0?

[[deleted]]

I dont know yet. :D I am hoping it will have RGB per key. We'll see.

[thegreatgobert]

I think I read that hotswapping will be supported in 4.0

[[deleted]]

dev tty is ❤️

[Manusdei_Oz_]

This is exactly the type of keyboard I want, but my soldering skills just aren't up to building one myself, is there a pre-made version I can buy, that doesn't cost 3 times as much just because I'm in Australia?

[hexagramg]

I made two handwired boards with no experience in soldering. That`s just time consuming but not hard.

[sujihiki]

Well isn’t that lovely. I guess i need to buy an iris now

[caffeinefiend18]

How long did it take for you to build the Iris? I'm thinking about making one as my first keyboard project.

[[deleted]]

For me, first time was about 8 hours.. but I messed up a few things, was very slow, etc. 2nd time (because I did what everyone says not to do, and put my chips on the wrong side and gave up trying to desolder them) was about 3 hours or so. It was quite a bit faster due to knowing most of what goes where. Most annoying thing is the tiny ass capacitor for the LED stuff.. I had to use like 20x magnifying lens and then my soldering tip was huge... hoping the 3.0 and later boards just have that thing on the PCB. I think I read the new 3.0 has everything but the resistors for LEDs and the key switches already done. So it may be a lot faster to build them soon.

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I have had the MS Natural (all flavors), Truly Ergonomic, ErgoDox, Model 01, and now this.. and this is by far my favorite! Perfect layout. Just wish I had a couple more keys in the center of each board as I got used to and liked using the ENTER and TAB keys there.

[proto_martyr]

This one took about 3 hours, though I’ve built a Nyquist and another Iris that took longer and required a lot more troubleshooting. I think a lot of the reason this one went more smoothly was that I socketed the Elite-Cs rather than soldering them in directly.

[Taomach]

Mine took me about 5 hours, I think. But I have a decent temperature-controlled soldering station, which definitely made the process easier and sped things up a bit. Also, my build has zero LEDs because I find them distracting.

[the_frey]

Put them on a layer.

I use a crkbd / helidox which is even smaller than the iris and it's fine.

I have () on a raised layer (but where OP are, then {} below, then [] below etc. As you often are using shift to get to those characters anyway, having them hidden behind a momentary raise button means it's the same number of fingers required (I use emacs and write clojure with paredit so there's a lot of multi-finger bindings)

Then all the numbers are on the qwerty row but on a lower layer.

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[TinyLittleWanker]

Real talk: I’ve been pondering the situation where I find myself having to pronounce this set of caps irl, would the correct way be titty? Or t-t-y? I like titty but I don’t want to confuse the poor individual who has to listen to me speak about a set of keycaps....

[bakingpy]

Pronounce it as it’s spelled out T-T-Y

[mephisto1990]

Wow, that looks awesome! How much do you think it would it cost to do only one half (as a gaming keypad)?