TPDD_Cable VS discipline

Both pcbway and jlcpcb will cleanly cut your entire board outline with no panelization tabs. You can draw any arbitrary shapes in your edge.cuts and get it.

oshpark leaves rat bites that you have to sand down and clean up if the board outline matters to you. Worse, if you have castellated half holes, the rat bites can land right in the middle of what was supposed to be edge contacts.

I have boards that are small like the size of a dip28, where the entire length of the two long sides are castellated, and they are edge contacts to fit in a socket, not for soldering, and the entire board snaps into a carrier so essentially all 4 sides need to be clean and match the drawing. I have to sand and clean up oshpark boards, and live with a little bit of defect in the castellated holes. I don't have to do anything with jlc or pcbway boards. They arrive perfectly clean edged and ready to use.

I have one board that is only about 1cm square, but not square, it has a complicated outline, and both jlc and pcbway just pop it out with no fuss the same as any other order for the same nothing cost. I don't know how they even hold on to the tiny board to cut the outline. It does appear to be traditionally routered, not laser or water jet.

https://github.com/bkw777/TPDD_Cable

pics of an earlier version with slightly different outline.

I will suggest that Baroque ornamentation was attached to things that were part of the function of the object, but you have hidden all the electronics that make your computer function inside its (yes, beautiful) case. Those electronics have an intricacy and a beauty all their own, even if their appearance is mostly dictated by function and cost. Maybe it's not what you're going for, but see for example the DISCIPLINE keyboard for an example of bringing the electronics to the forefront, and positioning them with attention to artistry and not only function.

There are other benefits: A PCB design can be shared so that others can fabricate it themselves. (Or modify it if they wish). A PCB design will likely have a schematic, too, which can be studied.

I'd also bet that PCB projects are more likely to inspire better PCB projects. -- Or at least, the domain I've tried my hand at has been PCBs for custom mechanical keyboards.

e.g. I've seen boards inspired by https://github.com/hsgw/plaid such as https://github.com/coseyfannitutti/discipline or https://github.com/rtitmuss/torn and I think there are several popular split keyboard designs which basically descend from https://github.com/MakotoKurauchi/helix

All the files and instructions are in the designer's Github repositories, see https://github.com/coseyfannitutti/mysterium and https://github.com/coseyfannitutti/discipline

Thank you! What do you want to know? The case is designed to fit a Discipline PCB, I designed a new PCB (and plate), which uses the same ATMega32a and a very similar circuit but redesigned from scratch to fit an ortholinear layout while still being compatible with the case. The big knob is set up with a smooth (ie no detent) encoder which complements the extra weight nicely (it spins well!). It's set up for scrolling at the moment but I'm going to add some different functions for different layers. The other two knobs control volume and undo/redo, and have a more usual detent decoder. Keycaps are DSA Historic... That's all I can think of!

Hey there, I have downloaded the file for the acrylic plate from github. https://github.com/coseyfannitutti/discipline Somewhere there is the correct plate. But watch out, there are also top plates for a different acrylic case.

Open source on github