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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 05:28:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I wonder how bad an idea it is to mount a raspi pico at a 90-degree angle to a PCB

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 05:30:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm trying to design a keyboard that needs to fit into a small area (550mm by 15mm) and I realized I can technically get a little more room by making it have two right-angle PCBs. I could do that by designing two PCBs... or I could just have a pico mounted at 90 degrees!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 05:36:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Fratm

     @Fratm I mean sticking out of the board, like I only solder one side down and the other side is facing away from the board.
     I know that'd work electrically, but mechanically it's a tad questionable

   • Fratm (fratm@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 05:36:33 JST Fratm

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     @foone Why would it even be an issue? electrons don't care which direction they are facing.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:04:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Something not entirely unlike this.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:21:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I just realized this PCB is actually bigger than my chosen PCB fab can make.

     I mean, unless I have them make it diagonally, but I imagine that'd be a tad expensive

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:23:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I locked up kicad for 5 minutes by accidentally trying to insert 8000 keys

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:32:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @StellaFoxxie suggested I make it EVEN BIGGER and I got up to 254 keys and 1.9m meters before kicad started to completely shit itself

   • Simon Zerafa (simonzerafa@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:33:45 JST Simon Zerafa

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     @foone

     Unicode / Emoji Keyboard? 🙂🤷♂️

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:33:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Simon Zerafa

     @simonzerafa NO

     not only do I not want to do something Tom Scott already did, but keyboards don't do unicode.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:38:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Here it is with an iso-standard height reference, a 5'12" foone

   • abrasive (abrasive@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 07:14:08 JST abrasive

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     @foone JLC quoted me a surprisingly reasonable $30 for 5 off 500x15 flex? I don't know about your space constraints but maybe you could origami your micro off one end or side in that case? 500x40 (for a side-hinged one) lands closer to $40

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 07:49:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I made a boringly sensible version of it.
     18cm/7", 20 keys.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 08:02:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Labeled the keys

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 08:05:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     oh and the back

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 08:27:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     parts are ordered. who knows when I'll be able to solder it, but you gotta dream.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 09:25:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Awesome New Year Robot

     @StompyRobot you'll have to take it up with The Yardbirds

   • Awesome New Year Robot (stompyrobot@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 09:25:27 JST Awesome New Year Robot

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     @foone what's the difference between "under" and down? Shouldn't "down" be "behind?"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 10:40:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     PCBs & parts arrived! Everything looks good. I'm gonna attempt to solder it together sometime this weekend