I hate them!….
Well, on-screen they looked great but, in the hands, they don’t quite work so well…
so, partly back to the drawing board
The ‘user friendly’ mods I did to the tops just don’t look right, the keys just look too blocky. So, in CAD i’ve now gone the opposite way and made them slightly smaller (than a genuine amiga scaled down to the same amount) and on-screen, they now look perfect!, i.e. like a REAL amiga keyboard!
I’ve a creative decision to make regarding the font size and depth though – Likley i’ll end up with a much larger than stock font so to keep legibility
Ignore the colour, it’s some left over custom pigmented “Heroquest Orc Green” I knocked up a few months back. Actual colour matching will come a bit later down the line, I’ve ordered a few bottles of resin just to experiemnt and get the colour mix correct!.
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Very exciting! I’ll be in line to order once you get it all worked out! Amazing work so far!
Is converting the included keys like with the C64mini not possible? I think I recall that eventually it was decided that was better than printing new key caps?
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Thanks for the nice comments 🙂
I think it’s not possible to use the A500 keycaps, they’re too small. BUT, they’re much easier to design in CAD than the C64 ones were. And I’ve learned a lot since then, so unlikely there’ll be any angle grinding
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Cool, as I say, very excited for this mod. Really will take the A500mini to the next level.
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HI,
To be clear
It is very difficult to cut up the factory A500 Mini Keyboard, I think the keycaps are simply too small to be able to cut them out and put them onto switches.
The C64Mini *just* about worked as the switches fit inside the caps and had a long stem to add glue to
the keyboard I am making will be a soldered plug in replacement.
It will only need between 4 and 0 joins to solder ,
I’m hoping, and experimenting to make it entirely solderless – But, if I can not – it will be a very easy 4 hole soldering kit!
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