Making the Minitouch even better

[Minskleip]

I just made one of my Minitouches even better! I'm still cleaning my spare Alps, sort of, but I didn't want to wait.
Todo: 1) move the Fn key out of the way and put a remappable key there instead; 2) change the LEDs

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LEDs changed to red. I found some red LEDs from a ten year old project I didn't finished again haha.

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Traces cut and keys rewired. I tried to just desolder the keys and isolate them so I wouldn't have to cut the traces, but it was too hard without heat shrinks. I swapped Fn and Insert.

Time to put it back together:

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It's too much crap in there! Foiled again.

Next step: rewire and make sure it's really flat

[Minskleip]

Is's completed! Red leds and changed Fn with Insert. Now I just have to actually use the key for something lol. And I'd like to get rid of that large enter button too. Del/backspace is too high up!

I ran two wires between the plate and pcb; call me Mr. Smart.

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Assembled!

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My keyboard has the evil!

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[webwit]

Nice mod. I like the red leds, but they clash with those fugly green key caps! Would like to see you get rid of that big Enter key.

[Minskleip]

Agree with the green key caps.

Would be hard to change the enter; I'll have to archive that into "if I'm bored of life" lol

[webwit]

Ah yes, the archive of which ripster is feeding so plentifully

[Minskleip]

Someone has to do it!

Fixed my green:

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In this photo you can also see my "vintage" Creative speakers.