Building the ScottoLoooooooooong Handwired Mechanical Keyboard
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2023
- About a year ago I built the ScottoLong handwired keyboard, named that way because it used a 7u spacebar. Recently I got thinking that 7u is long, but it's not LONG so I redesigned the board to use a custom-made 10u spacebar. All the keycaps are 3D printed and the case used the fuzzy skin setting in Cura to add more texture.
The switches I chose are the Akko Lavender Purples lubed with Krytox 205G0 and then I used poron between the switches and the plate. For the stabilizer, I just used normal dielectric grease with medical tape. All of this results in what I think is my best-sounding board yet. Like all my projects, the files for this board are available for free if you want to build it yourself.
~ Links ~
Find out more about the project: scottokeebs.com
Donations greatly appreciated: bit.ly/41odBEu
Akko Lavender Purple: amzn.to/3VJy440
~ Handwiring Tools ~
TS100 Soldering Iron: amzn.to/3LCsrkb
D24 Chisel Tip: amzn.to/3VFxiES
63/37 Solder: amzn.to/3uBlMPu
~ Handwiring Parts ~
1N4148 Diodes: amzn.to/3Ccljbb
16g Copper Wire: amzn.to/3xLDVvJ
Raspberry Pi Pico: amzn.to/3HglCVb
Arduino Pro Micro: amzn.to/3HkR9Fn
Ethernet Cable: amzn.to/3uyaOKr
M2x6mm Screws: amzn.to/3UI1bDH
M2x8mm Spacer: amzn.to/3Y4KzJ3
M2 Heat Set Insert: amzn.to/3WjklB9
Durock Stabilizers: amzn.to/3FgcLQR
~ 3D Printing ~
Ender-3 Pro: amzn.to/3VIWryL
PEI Magnetic Bed: amzn.to/3Hi7URx
Dual Z Upgrade: amzn.to/3h7DTJy
BLTouch Auto-Leveling: amzn.to/3UGEBv8
~ Favorite Cheap Switches ~
Gateron Milky Yellow: amzn.to/3Bk0Cci
Akko Lavender Purple: amzn.to/3VJy440
~ Social ~
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~ Community ~
ScottoKeebs Discord: / discord
Handwired Keyboards Reddit: / handwiredkeyboards
~ Disclaimer ~
Some links may be affiliate links where I will make a small commission. Nothing in this video was sponsored by any outside party and I wasn't paid for the content in this video.
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Let me know what you think of this style of video, I might start doing it more often. I also didn't show much of the 3D printed keycaps and that's because I plan on doing a dedicated video. The process isn't that complex but you do need to configure a few things to get successful prints.
NIce style. But it hsould only be a B-Roll. I'm waiting for the whole explanation of how you made this keycaps :)
Take this as just one opinion, not as opinion of your entire audience. I personally prefer the talking videos more. For me what's interesting is not perse the board itself, but the challenges you overcame and why you went a certain direction with it. This video could have been B-roll.
Then again, if you like making these kinda videos more, go for it. I'd rather have more interesting videos like these, then none at all, because you've become burnt out with making the same type of videos.
@@SanderMakes Yeah, the plan would be to make more videos in more styles. So for example a full talking “explainer” video and then with footage from it I could make another cinematic.
This was beautiful! Super cinematic and chill too. I like this style a lot. What typing test app do you use in this video?
@@gunjja13 pretty sure he uses monkeytype, you can do a lot of fun stuff with that.
Video turned out great. Those panning shots are tasty
The one with the keycaps was 12 shots combined with a motion controlled slider. I’m really proud of that one.
Crazy 😮
watching this gave me feels. love the passion. beautiful cinematography and editing @joe. love seeing your explosive growth within this hella niche hobby.
We need a southpaw 100% with a space bar spanning the whole thing. Carbon fiber reinforced space bar with active stabilization
and a solenoid.
Damn, you weren't kidding. It sounds great! 💀🖤🤖
love your workbench 😎
It looks nice here but after a project it looks like a tornado went through 😂
@@joe_scotto lol, I can relate 😂😂
Beautiful cinematography.
Strong cinematography, thank you!
I do like the execution of this video -- maybe a mix of your normal style and this would be great. :)
nice to see a fellow colemak user.
the AltGr dead keys is the main reason i kept using colemak, really useful.
Ooh cinematic!
Really sick video and I imagine all the filming and editing took awhile lol. My only question is was the spring lube shot just for theatrics or do u normally put that much on the spring, cuz that was a lot of lube lol.
I normally don’t lube my switches but I saw recently something called “donut dipping” for the springs and decided to try it on this build. I think that’s a major reason why it sounds good as the spring/stem has like a dampener at the bottom to thicken it out.
@@joe_scotto i see i see, yea i think donut dipping like that is most likely fine. In my experience if u had spread that lube throughout the entire spring then it would have been sluggish but since u only did the bottom it turned out fine.
I have just as many questions as I did when I saw this video in my suggestions.
What questions do you have?
@@joe_scotto Heh, I’ll take a look at your other videos. But I didn’t know what this keyboard layout was. Very nicely filmed though!
@@joe_scotto So it looks like this is a Colemak layout? Interesting.
@@esotericsean Yup, I switched about a year ago and haven’t looked back since. It’s much more comfortable and efficient to use.
Great video, but I think I prefer a bit of narration. I recently discovered your channel and am watching all of your videos. They are really helpful without belaboring the obvious. I am really excited about making my own hand wired keyboard. I would like mine to include some sort of track pad or track ball to use as a mouse. Have you given thought to this? (Sorry if one of your videos already covers this and I just didn't find it, yet.)
I have plans to do something with a trackball/trackpad someday.
@@joe_scotto That would be awesome. In the meantime, I am researching this myself. I am thinking of using a tiny analog joystick and a wheel for pointing and scrolling. It seems very doable. Do you think one microcontroller could handle these mouse functions as well as the keyboard at the same time? (I know I could do it with 2, but would prefer not to.)
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I don't know if I like it or not 😮
Is this titanic or a keyboard
Yes
At least it didn't end in everyone around me bawling their eyes out and me just sitting there wondering if we all watched the same thing hahaha 💀🖤🤖
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what is the point of this keyboard? it isn't even functional for a typist.
Mostly just because it looks cool but it actually still has all the functions of a regular keyboard. Most of the punctuation is on a layer when you hold spacebar then numbers are on another layer when you hold a different key.
I have a video that goes into visual detail on how they work: ruclips.net/video/EiHD9T2d6YU/видео.html
Nice video, but the keyboard looks unusable.
It’s actually surprisingly usable but I wouldn’t want to daily it. 34-keys is comfortable to daily but this 31-key layout has a lot of combos and tap dance keys that make it a bit of a pain.