@@conorarchdeacon I'm pretty sure a comment from SMH is the holy grail of any aspiring engineering UA-camr. If you pursue this, you are gonna go far ! BTW I love your humor, it's rare that a video makes me laugh out loud, especially when it's that educational. I hope you'll keep making videos !
A 1k sub engineering UA-camr getting a comment of praise from the ~4.5m sub engineering UA-camr is legit a certificate of "you did well, keep it up". Congratulations on both that, and making this awesome keyboard!
A lot of people laughed at me for building a keyboard with a numpad on the left. "Oh you put it on the wrong side"... But even for right handers there is a good reason to put the num pad on the left. I do a lot of CAD and my right hand is occupied with the mouse and i need to punch in number constantly. A left numpad makes this so much better!
The "standard" num pad is supposed to be on the left. That's why the large enter and + keys are far right. They are supposed to be hit with your thumb. Pre smartphone people thought of their thumbs as their least articulate digits and thus would need larger targets.
Yeah in the real world where money and time are things that exist we just get a separate numpad for a tenner and put it where ever we like. Nice video about engineering and manufacturing though.
Is it? Like not to disrespectful at all and I do not have a doctorate in mechanical engineering. I thought the video was great and well produced and covered a great learning journey! but nothing of a PhD level imo. Keep up the videos man
@@theorangebaron1595 Definitely not a phd haha, it's just a slide show with voiceover. But hopefully you got something out of it :) and thank you for watching
Holy shit. As an owner of a few custom mechanical keyboards and a fellow incoming mechanical engineering grad student this has to be one of the most impressive and tedious projects I've seen. Love that you ran FEA on it just because you could.
This is absolutely nuts, the sheer dedication needed to go into the machine shop day after day, week after week to toil away at fabricating all these keycaps is just insane to me. Props to your uni machine shop for letting you go through with it, too!
Hey thank you very much! And yes big props to the machine shop people I definitely exasperated them a few times lol. Appreciate you watching and commenting!
okay first of all you are brilliant my guy, this video randomly showed up in my recommendation I was thinking it's going to be some person doing cad/pcb design and manufacturing from china like the others but my god!!! I am blown away, you got access to crazy machinery, you have the skills to work on all that, you have amazing faculty/co-workers who supported you through all this and this video is perfectly documented as a sales pitch/thesis
Thank you for the kind comment! I gotta give credit though, it is not like I magically learnt how to use these machines. I've had courses in machining and design where I learnt the basics. This project helped refine those starting skills and I asked a LOT of questions throughout. The staff was fantastic for letting me work on this. And towards the end I was pretty independent! Thank you for watching!
I’m glad I clicked on this. When I started, I just wanted to know where you got all-metal key caps, as they’re rather elusive. Then I realized you _made_ them yourself. In Awe. I have to settle for the ones I bought that almost, but don’t quite, work for the 1800 style keyboard I put together. When you decide to up yourself, I have three words for you: split contoured ergo.
i love the thank you section at the end. People really underrate the influence of good teachers! Good for you, good for the teacher. You have a bright future, my friend!
Thank you very much! And yes having mentors is invaluable. I had some CNC experience prior to this but nothing beats hands on at the machine and being able to ask questions to knowledgable people. Cheers!
I don't think I'll ever get to do this but as a custom keyboard buyer / enjoyer, kudos. That was one hell of a ride and hearing you list out the things you learned along the way was really satisfying even for someone with zero involvement in all this.
I'm about to finish my degree in mechanical engineering as well. Watching your video has mage me feel like I missed out on a lot of stuff in the process. I used to be an IT guy and then became a a machinist before realizing I should have become an engineer in the first place. Seeing how well you're doing so early in your working life really highlights how much of my life I wasted. We all have our paths and I'm glad you found yours and the world will probably be a better place for it.
Hey man first off you didn't waste anything and the fact you realized what you valued and are actively pursuing what you find important speaks volumes about your mindset and character. I'm sure the world will be better off with you as an engineer also. Thank you so much for watching :)
This project is crazy, and the end product looks so good, excellent job man. As a computer engineering student, I recently assembled a keyboard kit, and the part about programming the microcontroller was right up my alley, but I am planning on CNC-ing out a wooden case for the keyboard one day, perhaps even manufacturing some wooden keycaps, and that is going to force me to learn a lot of things if I proceed with the idea.
Absolutely insane work mate, as you’re limited by low spindle speed for the radius of the ball nose end mill, I would recommend just buffing the outer surface of the keys to achieve a better finish. To increase production speed you could finish both long angled edges of the keys on a manual mill or with an angle fixture in the cnc. It’s always incredibly beneficial to modify less critical parts of your design to accomodate tooling and ease of manufacture, which can be hard to commit to if you become too engrossed in the design you want. If you had a cnc lathe, you could machine a fixture that grabs the keys from the backside, allowing you to turn the internal radius on the top of the key much faster. A similar fixture could be used in the mill, holding the key at the rake angle of the key side, to machine and finish the sides of the key to a higher quality. Maybe you could automate the indexing of the fixture as well. Simplification and streamlining of manufacture can save you a surprising amount of time. I am very impressed with the endurance and passion you expressed, and how you were able to stay so committed to completing such a daunting task. I imagine you will go very far as an engineer.
Thank you for the kind words. You are right there is a lot of creative ways to speed up manufacturing and I'm sure a lot of tricks I have yet to learn. Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Hats off to you ! You have my respect for being able to stay strong and persevere with such a massive hobby and career at the same time. You truly inspire me to get out there and make things.
Be excited!! It's a great time to learn and discover what you are passionate about. And once you find that interest, pursue it! Thank you for watching :)
very impressive! the side quests are often just as rewarding as the main quest - gotta celebrate the wins as they come. Congrats on bringing your vision to fruition!
awesome project. i know, people tend to love this "hackerman keyboards with no printed labels", but i think waaay cooler would be, if you cnc-engrave the letters, and fill the voids with black resin. this is one of the biggest drawbacks on keyboards for me: beeing able to have a truly custom font on the keycaps (especially because you can have a correct representation of any custom qmk-layout this way for all the layers).
I wanted to add symbols but it would've greatly increased complexity (every key becomes a unique one-off now). Other options I considered were decals, laser etching, sandblasting masked off areas, and of course cnc letters. Obviously I ended up not doing any of these lol. I really like the simplistic look no symbols gives the board. And of course as you mentioned it dissociates mapping in qmk to what the key says it is. Thanks for watching!
Wow, as a small keyboard enthusiast I thoroughly enjoyed your video. I absolutely love how invested you have been from the beginning and pulled through with it creating a magnificent if not the most magnificent custom mechanical keyboard. It's amazing to hear that it sounds fantastic and, what one would think, has no ping sounds at all. Congratulations, this is such an amazing and inspiring multi disciplinary project. Watching this gave me immense joy. Huge kudos to you and all the best for your future 👏🙌
Incredible and impressive project. Over on keyboard treehouse, they have 2 different left hand keyboards available btw - EXT65 and Kangaroo. Not exactly the same layout as what you want but pretty close. Look forward to seeing your future projects. I love seeing the process, not many makers in the keyboard hobby show this level of detail, although most have their products machined over in china. Biggest exception would be salvun, he often posts short videos from his shop.
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked the progress aspect of it. I tried to take photos/videos whenever I remembered. I thought about getting stuff machined 3rd party but then you don't learn anything :) cheers!
This is sick. Congratulations on graduating! Sometimes there's no better motivator for a project than wanting something super cool that you made. Hoping to harness that for myself
respect the grind man, really took the time to made the keyboard and I love it! I'm right handed but I have never felt the numpad feel good at the right side so I really love the left handed numpad
I wasn't sure how people would react to me placing memes I found funny randomly throughout the video. Glad to hear it worked out - thank you for watching and for the nice comment!
Hah unfortunately editing is not a strength and it took me a while to put this together. But if you have any specific questions I would be happy to try and answer them. Thank you for watching!
11:15 speaks to me....exactly how I'm doing some intense work while watching this....and listening to music...and watching the squirrels play outside my window.
Man this project is insane, I'm kind of baffled how I'm one of the lucky few to have seen the video. Congrats man, the keyboard looks great. I struggle with PCBs and pesky firmware too hahahahahahahaha
what the heck is your job dude. i am an electrical and computer engineer student right now. we don't have access to any of this. neither did my brother who is a mechanical engineer. this is an insane project to take on your own. i can only applaud you this is an insane job.
I got my master's in ME. I can tell you, the difference is either that between private school VS. state or that of main campus VS. sister campuses. I went to a sister campus _of a state school_ and we did not have ANY of this. MULTIPLE machinists/shop technicians and MULTIPLE CNC machines? A laser cutter? A water jet cutter? Dude is living in paradise, I'm so jealous! XD
@@Providence83 i am in the top university in my country... so was my brother. access to those tools was reserved only for the students of a specific lab and the student formula program. we don't get to play with them. and even the formula program was kicked out of that lab because the professor was stupid in my opinion since that our team has brought many good positions with limited funding. and in my country we only have state universities. for now at least. they are actively trying to change even though it is forbidden by the state. greece is one hell of a country...
I appreciate the kind words! And I know I am fortunate to have access to the tools shown in the video. A lot of the tools were from a Makerspace (which is a sort of communal shop intended to bring down the barrier/cost of entry to using advanced machines). Some machines used were from the engineering department shop also. Hopefully with the current trends these tools will be mainstream for everyone. Thank you for watching!
@@conorarchdeacon this is such a great initiative. if i stay in my university for phd i might push for such a thing. maybe in a smaller scale to begin with with access to oscilloscopes and generators to start practicing outside of lab hours. we have this unofficially. i took advantage of it to finish a project in second year. however you needed to ask around to find out. also i have assembled an ergodash. custom keyboards are such a cool hobby and you for sure took it to the next level. you much have gotten insane inside after this whole project. hope to see more of that stuff
Looks great. I've been debating on making a keyboard from scratch for awhile now. Something that may bring down the machining time is bullnose end mills. They can get a pretty good surface finish since they have a radius instead of a sharp corner.
Thanks for the comment! I actually used a bullnose endmill for the case, but now that I'm thinking about it, it would've been great for the keycaps also. I was a little limited by the available cutters I had and didn't want to spend too much on endmills
@@conorarchdeacon Yea, I get that. I’ve got a desktop cnc at home that I chose to learn cnc on. I sunk quite a bit of money on end mills in the beginning learning expensive lessons lol
Hey happy graduation! (Hopefully times lines up 17:14 ) this is a dope project and has me wanting to think about making a version of my own. The pcb creation being the main part that has me worried 😅
Hey thank you very much!! Pcb was a little intimidating but there is a lot of documentation out there to help out. Kicad is great at streamlining the process (you draw a circuit diagram, then assign footprints to components, and then place the footprints on the board). And Kicad ensures what you draw in the diagram gets hooked up in the board when routing. Two thumbs up from me. Best of luck with your projects!
not even 10k views? holy shit this was insane, this might just be the single best keyboard in the entire world! of course production isnt feasable as is right now but pulling that off single handedly (more or less) is quite impressive!
This is so awesome! Would really recommend to get a solid, flat wristrest, not a wobbly one, but like a solid 3cm wood box. You could even machine it yourself to perfect height ;)
Wow! Amazing job! You basically achieved what I tried to do with my PrintNC. At the time, I had no idea what to do for a PCB, so I used Amoebas and basically handwired everything. I also had issues with my printed motor mounts melting during cutting. Anyway, this is mad impressive and I'll gladly watch any future build videos you decide to make!
You’re so underrated, thought this was made by a popular content creator until I saw your sub count. Please keep making content. To those people reading, this sub to this man.
Man, I just feel worthless now after doing my degree in Mechanical Engineering, this guy went ahead did all this on whim. I am astounded, I hope you reach new heights my man.
300th subscriber here :) This video was super interesting and entertaining at the same time. As someone who gave up on big project years ago (programmable guitar pedalboard looper thing), I admire you. Congrats Edit: oh and you're a fellow FPV pilot, neat !
Hey thank you very much!! And yes I dabble in fpv a friend got me into the hobby. Unfortunately the hobby is becoming a bit regulated. Thanks for watching!
Dude that’s insane
Hey thank you so much for watching and commenting! Your videos are an inspiration to me :D
having a comment from StuffMadeHere about being insane must be a certificate of high quality content :)
@@conorarchdeacon I'm pretty sure a comment from SMH is the holy grail of any aspiring engineering UA-camr. If you pursue this, you are gonna go far !
BTW I love your humor, it's rare that a video makes me laugh out loud, especially when it's that educational. I hope you'll keep making videos !
If Shane finds this insane, colour me doubly impressed.
A 1k sub engineering UA-camr getting a comment of praise from the ~4.5m sub engineering UA-camr is legit a certificate of "you did well, keep it up". Congratulations on both that, and making this awesome keyboard!
A lot of people laughed at me for building a keyboard with a numpad on the left. "Oh you put it on the wrong side"...
But even for right handers there is a good reason to put the num pad on the left.
I do a lot of CAD and my right hand is occupied with the mouse and i need to punch in number constantly. A left numpad makes this so much better!
Yeah, right side is for right handed people in a more or less mouse free environment. I think I'd take left side because of the mouse.
Hello fellow left numpad enjoyer. Glad to see I'm not the only one! Thanks for watching!
The "standard" num pad is supposed to be on the left. That's why the large enter and + keys are far right. They are supposed to be hit with your thumb. Pre smartphone people thought of their thumbs as their least articulate digits and thus would need larger targets.
@@MumrikDK Even in a mouse free environment all the navigation keys are on the right side. So still no excuse for the right side numpad.
Yeah in the real world where money and time are things that exist we just get a separate numpad for a tenner and put it where ever we like. Nice video about engineering and manufacturing though.
OMFG... This is a PhD thesis of custom keyboard. The results, as well as the work process, are insanely cool man.
Thanks for the kind words! Cheers!
Is it? Like not to disrespectful at all and I do not have a doctorate in mechanical engineering. I thought the video was great and well produced and covered a great learning journey! but nothing of a PhD level imo. Keep up the videos man
@@theorangebaron1595it might have been a joke…
@@theorangebaron1595 Definitely not a phd haha, it's just a slide show with voiceover. But hopefully you got something out of it :) and thank you for watching
@@theorangebaron1595please socialize with people in real life I beg you
Holy shit. As an owner of a few custom mechanical keyboards and a fellow incoming mechanical engineering grad student this has to be one of the most impressive and tedious projects I've seen. Love that you ran FEA on it just because you could.
Ansys is a fantastic tool! Thank you for watching!
wow a genuine 1/1 custom keyboard. great job!
Thank you very much!
This is absolutely nuts, the sheer dedication needed to go into the machine shop day after day, week after week to toil away at fabricating all these keycaps is just insane to me. Props to your uni machine shop for letting you go through with it, too!
Hey thank you very much! And yes big props to the machine shop people I definitely exasperated them a few times lol. Appreciate you watching and commenting!
Before I looked at the view count I thought this video was made by a big shot, keep it up man.
Appreciate it, thank you!
45 subscribers? damn, we getting in on the ground floor here
Early supporters represent
It is by a big shot. He's just not one yet.
I like epic quests, wacky humour, documentaries, art, technology, perfectionism, and metal. This had all of that rolled into one. Thank you.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed, cheers :)
okay first of all you are brilliant my guy, this video randomly showed up in my recommendation I was thinking it's going to be some person doing cad/pcb design and manufacturing from china like the others
but my god!!! I am blown away, you got access to crazy machinery, you have the skills to work on all that, you have amazing faculty/co-workers who supported you through all this and this video is perfectly documented as a sales pitch/thesis
Thank you for the kind comment! I gotta give credit though, it is not like I magically learnt how to use these machines. I've had courses in machining and design where I learnt the basics. This project helped refine those starting skills and I asked a LOT of questions throughout. The staff was fantastic for letting me work on this. And towards the end I was pretty independent!
Thank you for watching!
I’m glad I clicked on this. When I started, I just wanted to know where you got all-metal key caps, as they’re rather elusive. Then I realized you _made_ them yourself. In Awe. I have to settle for the ones I bought that almost, but don’t quite, work for the 1800 style keyboard I put together.
When you decide to up yourself, I have three words for you: split contoured ergo.
I was looking at those! There are some really cool designs out there. Thanks for watching!
I am now extremely grateful that I can just buy even a crappy keyboard. Holy shit this was a journey. Thanks for sharing!
All keyboards are good! Thank you for watching!
This build has been crazy. I won’t lie, I have no idea about anything you talked about but thoroughly enjoyed you sharing it with us.
Thank, I appreciate you commenting! Hopefully you got something out of it :)
Amazing mix of memes, advanced yet easy to digest process, and creation. I love it! I look forward to more
Thanks I really appreciate it!
Its probably there to keep the gen alpha kids with an attention span of a gold fish from clicking off the video
@@Comrade_YG it also brings the boomers into the comment section :) thanks for watching!
i love the thank you section at the end. People really underrate the influence of good teachers! Good for you, good for the teacher. You have a bright future, my friend!
Thank you very much! And yes having mentors is invaluable. I had some CNC experience prior to this but nothing beats hands on at the machine and being able to ask questions to knowledgable people. Cheers!
I don't think I'll ever get to do this but as a custom keyboard buyer / enjoyer, kudos. That was one hell of a ride and hearing you list out the things you learned along the way was really satisfying even for someone with zero involvement in all this.
I try to do a retrospective on big projects and it is great that others are getting something out of it! Thank you for watching!
This was a wonderful journey to watch, it looks great man, Im glad you're happy about it!
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching!
Nothing beats walking through integration hell a couple of times! Stellar job! Love the effort and tenacity!
Thanks! Making code + cad/parts start working together is always a bit intimidating lol. Appreciate you watching!
I'm about to finish my degree in mechanical engineering as well. Watching your video has mage me feel like I missed out on a lot of stuff in the process. I used to be an IT guy and then became a a machinist before realizing I should have become an engineer in the first place. Seeing how well you're doing so early in your working life really highlights how much of my life I wasted. We all have our paths and I'm glad you found yours and the world will probably be a better place for it.
Hey man first off you didn't waste anything and the fact you realized what you valued and are actively pursuing what you find important speaks volumes about your mindset and character. I'm sure the world will be better off with you as an engineer also. Thank you so much for watching :)
I wish there was like an award you could win for making this youtube video
Thank you very much for the kind words :)
The knowlage and delivery is insane. I couldn’t skip any part. Couldn’t leave without commending. Subbed also!
Thank you very much! Appreciate it :)
This project is crazy, and the end product looks so good, excellent job man. As a computer engineering student, I recently assembled a keyboard kit, and the part about programming the microcontroller was right up my alley, but I am planning on CNC-ing out a wooden case for the keyboard one day, perhaps even manufacturing some wooden keycaps, and that is going to force me to learn a lot of things if I proceed with the idea.
When someone says custom in relation to keyboards I don't expect that level of custom xD
Great video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
This was beautiful. A complete journey. Thank you for documenting it all!
Thank you for watching! Cheers!! :)
Absolutely insane work mate, as you’re limited by low spindle speed for the radius of the ball nose end mill, I would recommend just buffing the outer surface of the keys to achieve a better finish. To increase production speed you could finish both long angled edges of the keys on a manual mill or with an angle fixture in the cnc. It’s always incredibly beneficial to modify less critical parts of your design to accomodate tooling and ease of manufacture, which can be hard to commit to if you become too engrossed in the design you want. If you had a cnc lathe, you could machine a fixture that grabs the keys from the backside, allowing you to turn the internal radius on the top of the key much faster. A similar fixture could be used in the mill, holding the key at the rake angle of the key side, to machine and finish the sides of the key to a higher quality. Maybe you could automate the indexing of the fixture as well. Simplification and streamlining of manufacture can save you a surprising amount of time. I am very impressed with the endurance and passion you expressed, and how you were able to stay so committed to completing such a daunting task. I imagine you will go very far as an engineer.
Thank you for the kind words. You are right there is a lot of creative ways to speed up manufacturing and I'm sure a lot of tricks I have yet to learn. Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Love how keychron just came out with exactly what you wanted
And for much cheaper!! Who did it better though? 😉 cheers!
Hats off to you ! You have my respect for being able to stay strong and persevere with such a massive hobby and career at the same time. You truly inspire me to get out there and make things.
Thank you very much! Glad I was able to inspire and thanks for the nice words
I was questioning my sanity…
…comforted, I now applaud you and your awesome project, sir!
Glad you have concluded you are sane! Cheers and thanks for watching :)
The keeb looks unreal bro AMAZING. Can’t believe this video doesn’t go viral yet. Good job you’re one living legend now🤙🏼🤙🏼
Thank you sir! You are a legend also - cheers!
This was dope to watch as someone who is into custom keyboards and engineering/product design. Also gave me a good laugh.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching :)
This project could've failed in so many ways. Kudos for sticking it through. Very nice results!
Thanks! And yes I was very worried in the beginning about all the dependencies. Cheers!
This is the best keyboard build on youtube. Amazing to see it all and hope you could somehow sell something like it in the future.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed :)
Man he gets to have the keypad on the left, I'm very jealous. Congratulations on finishing the project, it looks great.
Thank you very much! Appreciate you commenting :)
as a first year mechanical engineering student i am incredibly impressed and horrified at what is to come.
Be excited!! It's a great time to learn and discover what you are passionate about. And once you find that interest, pursue it! Thank you for watching :)
@@conorarchdeacon The maths terrifies me though.. I love doing CAD as a hobby. Thanks for the encouraging words ☺
This is literally brute forcing life to get what you want and it’s sick af. That keyboard is so awesome, literally heirloom material right there
@@chimdot Thank you very much! Cheers :)
Damn i almost cried wishing i had the same opportunity to desing new stuff like u did
Great project man, keep it up :D
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed :)
This is so inspiring as a person who wants to get into mechanical engineering, thanks man.
Hey glad to help out! It's a great topic to study! Best wishes and thanks for watching :)
This is sick, something I've dreamed of doing but never considered realistic for me. It looks amazing!
Thank you! Maybe try a macro pad or 3D print to get started with something small scale :)
very impressive! the side quests are often just as rewarding as the main quest - gotta celebrate the wins as they come. Congrats on bringing your vision to fruition!
Thank you very much! And yes the journey is the exciting part :)
This is not just completely bonkers, but really nicely presented and entertaining, thanks for an inspiring video!
Thanks! Appreciate it :)
Glad to see this one starting to take off. Really great video.
Thanks for the kind words! Cheers!
awesome project.
i know, people tend to love this "hackerman keyboards with no printed labels", but i think waaay cooler would be, if you cnc-engrave the letters, and fill the voids with black resin. this is one of the biggest drawbacks on keyboards for me: beeing able to have a truly custom font on the keycaps (especially because you can have a correct representation of any custom qmk-layout this way for all the layers).
I wanted to add symbols but it would've greatly increased complexity (every key becomes a unique one-off now). Other options I considered were decals, laser etching, sandblasting masked off areas, and of course cnc letters. Obviously I ended up not doing any of these lol. I really like the simplistic look no symbols gives the board. And of course as you mentioned it dissociates mapping in qmk to what the key says it is. Thanks for watching!
@@conorarchdeacon That all makes a lot of sense ... but just imagine this with some sort of inlays!
Wow, as a small keyboard enthusiast I thoroughly enjoyed your video.
I absolutely love how invested you have been from the beginning and pulled through with it creating a magnificent if not the most magnificent custom mechanical keyboard.
It's amazing to hear that it sounds fantastic and, what one would think, has no ping sounds at all. Congratulations, this is such an amazing and inspiring multi disciplinary project. Watching this gave me immense joy. Huge kudos to you and all the best for your future 👏🙌
Thanks for the kind comment! I appreciate you watching and commenting :)
Incredible and impressive project.
Over on keyboard treehouse, they have 2 different left hand keyboards available btw - EXT65 and Kangaroo. Not exactly the same layout as what you want but pretty close.
Look forward to seeing your future projects. I love seeing the process, not many makers in the keyboard hobby show this level of detail, although most have their products machined over in china. Biggest exception would be salvun, he often posts short videos from his shop.
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked the progress aspect of it. I tried to take photos/videos whenever I remembered. I thought about getting stuff machined 3rd party but then you don't learn anything :) cheers!
This is sick. Congratulations on graduating! Sometimes there's no better motivator for a project than wanting something super cool that you made. Hoping to harness that for myself
Thank you very much! Best wishes on your projects :)
respect the grind man, really took the time to made the keyboard and I love it! I'm right handed but I have never felt the numpad feel good at the right side so I really love the left handed numpad
Thanks! Appreciate you watching!
Grinding is abrasion, but this is cutting. This is better.
@@SianaGearz haha, mb for the typo then. I also agree that this cutting is indeed better
This is such an inspiration to me that I am seriously considering to restart building my own keyboards since i tried once before and failed.
This is super cool, simple and clear editing, awesome project, this is a banger! Very inspiring!
Thank you very much! Cheers!
Love your editing style!
Thank you! Cheers and appreciate you watching and commenting!
Getting into the keyboard hobby and seeing this got me feeling something..
I would encourage making a keyboard! It's a fun hobby and it's something you'll interact with everyday :)
This is sick!! Sam from UCSD triton racing. Super cool to see the final product randomly pop up on my youtube feed. Great work!!
Thanks so much for watching! Cheers :)
Absolutely brilliant video. I'm even more impressed that you had zero ticking on any of the stabs, very good work indeed!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed :)
The algorithm catch something good this time. Awesome video, awesome keyboard, awesome documentary style and memes. Keep it up, congratulations!❤
I wasn't sure how people would react to me placing memes I found funny randomly throughout the video. Glad to hear it worked out - thank you for watching and for the nice comment!
Sick project! I didn't know they have CNC machines for students to use at UCSD, that's very cool!.
Facilities are fantastic. Most of the machines are open access with the proper training. Thanks for watching!
i would totally watch a 3 hour version of this with even more info :)
Hah unfortunately editing is not a strength and it took me a while to put this together. But if you have any specific questions I would be happy to try and answer them. Thank you for watching!
how did you (if you did) put the labels on the keys that say what key they are?
@@aze4308 I didn't put labels on. I might in the future as decals
I'm impressed! Really great video, gives me a ton of insperation!
Glad to hear it! Thank you for watching!
Beautiful keyboard, the sound fit the look so well
Thanks! And appreciate you watching :)
@@conorarchdeacon serious dedication to your craft, I admire your craftsmanship
This is one of the most thing the world need u know, real creators of content with stuff. This is really nice man o love ur banoa 102 hahahaha
Thank you very much! I really appreciate that sentiment :)
Absolute Insane content! Gratz on making your keeb!
Thanks! glad you enjoyed it :)
11:15 speaks to me....exactly how I'm doing some intense work while watching this....and listening to music...and watching the squirrels play outside my window.
Man this project is insane, I'm kind of baffled how I'm one of the lucky few to have seen the video. Congrats man, the keyboard looks great. I struggle with PCBs and pesky firmware too hahahahahahahaha
The PCB and firmware was definitely one of the higher risk steps. Thanks for watching!
Massive thumbs up. Love the style of your video and the keyboard is what dreams are made of. You should be proud of what you achieved
Thank you very much! Appreciate the kind words :)
Nice milling sound, every good polymecanicien knows what a good CNC sound is ;)
Thanks! I always find hearing the machines going to be a nice happy sound (minus the worry of crashing something expensive!). Cheers!
Really impressive stuff, especially being your first custom board!
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Awesome video, and a really impressive project. Keep up the good work, I hope we will see more quality videos like this in the future. Very well done!
No promises on more videos, but if I have something worthwhile to share it will be here. Thank you for watching!
Every part of this is a work of art.
what the heck is your job dude. i am an electrical and computer engineer student right now. we don't have access to any of this. neither did my brother who is a mechanical engineer.
this is an insane project to take on your own. i can only applaud you this is an insane job.
I got my master's in ME. I can tell you, the difference is either that between private school VS. state or that of main campus VS. sister campuses. I went to a sister campus _of a state school_ and we did not have ANY of this. MULTIPLE machinists/shop technicians and MULTIPLE CNC machines? A laser cutter? A water jet cutter? Dude is living in paradise, I'm so jealous! XD
@@Providence83 i am in the top university in my country... so was my brother. access to those tools was reserved only for the students of a specific lab and the student formula program. we don't get to play with them. and even the formula program was kicked out of that lab because the professor was stupid in my opinion since that our team has brought many good positions with limited funding.
and in my country we only have state universities. for now at least. they are actively trying to change even though it is forbidden by the state. greece is one hell of a country...
@@hellNo116 I hope you don't find this insulting but I am sorry you live in Greece. Good culture with rather bad government institutions.
I appreciate the kind words! And I know I am fortunate to have access to the tools shown in the video. A lot of the tools were from a Makerspace (which is a sort of communal shop intended to bring down the barrier/cost of entry to using advanced machines). Some machines used were from the engineering department shop also. Hopefully with the current trends these tools will be mainstream for everyone. Thank you for watching!
@@conorarchdeacon this is such a great initiative. if i stay in my university for phd i might push for such a thing. maybe in a smaller scale to begin with with access to oscilloscopes and generators to start practicing outside of lab hours. we have this unofficially. i took advantage of it to finish a project in second year. however you needed to ask around to find out.
also i have assembled an ergodash. custom keyboards are such a cool hobby and you for sure took it to the next level. you much have gotten insane inside after this whole project. hope to see more of that stuff
As Adam Savage would say, I'm "gobsmacked". This is truly amazing.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Looks great. I've been debating on making a keyboard from scratch for awhile now. Something that may bring down the machining time is bullnose end mills. They can get a pretty good surface finish since they have a radius instead of a sharp corner.
Thanks for the comment! I actually used a bullnose endmill for the case, but now that I'm thinking about it, it would've been great for the keycaps also. I was a little limited by the available cutters I had and didn't want to spend too much on endmills
@@conorarchdeacon Yea, I get that. I’ve got a desktop cnc at home that I chose to learn cnc on. I sunk quite a bit of money on end mills in the beginning learning expensive lessons lol
I love the noise part :) I cracked the flippin freak up
Hah thanks! I thought it would be fun to add that in
Hey happy graduation! (Hopefully times lines up 17:14 ) this is a dope project and has me wanting to think about making a version of my own.
The pcb creation being the main part that has me worried 😅
Hey thank you very much!! Pcb was a little intimidating but there is a lot of documentation out there to help out. Kicad is great at streamlining the process (you draw a circuit diagram, then assign footprints to components, and then place the footprints on the board). And Kicad ensures what you draw in the diagram gets hooked up in the board when routing. Two thumbs up from me. Best of luck with your projects!
Excited to be subbed under 1k. Incredible job of production in both the keyboard itself and the video documenting it👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed and thank you for subscribing. Cheers :)
not even 10k views? holy shit this was insane, this might just be the single best keyboard in the entire world! of course production isnt feasable as is right now but pulling that off single handedly (more or less) is quite impressive!
Thank you very much! And I am happy with it's uniqueness. Appreciate you watching and commenting!
This is so awesome! Would really recommend to get a solid, flat wristrest, not a wobbly one, but like a solid 3cm wood box. You could even machine it yourself to perfect height ;)
Thanks for the idea!! I would like to make a rest in the future. And appreciate you watching and commenting :)
This is awesome. You deserve far more subs.
I appreciate the kind words! Thanks for watching :)
Its crazy to me that this video only has 70k views, this was crazy to watch
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This is incredible and you did it while going to school. I'm super impressed. You're going places!!
Thanks, I appreciate it! Glad you watched the video :)
this is insane holy... and it sounds so good wtf
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Wow! Amazing job! You basically achieved what I tried to do with my PrintNC. At the time, I had no idea what to do for a PCB, so I used Amoebas and basically handwired everything. I also had issues with my printed motor mounts melting during cutting. Anyway, this is mad impressive and I'll gladly watch any future build videos you decide to make!
Thanks and glad you are staying around! Best of luck with your future projects :)
Def subbing and liking purely for the insane amount of time spent. Looks amazing, fantastic work
Thanks, appreciate it!
You’re so underrated, thought this was made by a popular content creator until I saw your sub count. Please keep making content. To those people reading, this sub to this man.
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what a beauty ❤ congratulations
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I love the editing, hope you get popular
Thank you very much, cheers!
What an insane video... bravo!
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That's mind blowing! Congratulations!
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Impressive thanks for sharing greetings from the Netherlands
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Amazing video man ! Thanks for sharing this
Thanks for watching!
You earn a hug, a hand shake and a sub. Well done🎉
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This was Awesome. Please MORE PLEASEEEEEEEEE❤
Outstanding work!!
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@@conorarchdeacon thank you for sharing this project!
amazing bro, a literal custom keyboard, and just as other have mentions, i thought this was made by an m+ channel
great video!
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Very nice. Congrats on graduating and cool keyboard
Thank you! And thanks for watching :)
Man, I just feel worthless now after doing my degree in Mechanical Engineering, this guy went ahead did all this on whim. I am astounded, I hope you reach new heights my man.
Nah the degree is a statement itself, congrats on getting it! And thank you for watching :)
what an absolute alpha level banger. my deepest respect!
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300th subscriber here :) This video was super interesting and entertaining at the same time. As someone who gave up on big project years ago (programmable guitar pedalboard looper thing), I admire you. Congrats
Edit: oh and you're a fellow FPV pilot, neat !
Hey thank you very much!! And yes I dabble in fpv a friend got me into the hobby. Unfortunately the hobby is becoming a bit regulated. Thanks for watching!
Awesome keyboard!
I’m very happy I’m not in earshot when you’re typing ☺
Dude, you are brilliant! Amazing product! Keep it up!
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Great layout choice
Great making and a true custom diy keyboard that is nice
Great naration
Thank you very much! Great feedback :)
Man this is so awesome! Kudos to your dedication
now make a hyper7 hehe
heh that's a few too many keys lol. Thanks for watching :)
What a fantastic video. Thanks for sharing!
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Good luck, you did awesome job here!
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