Scouse Keyboard

Scouse keyboard that types "A" and "Calm down"

(for those not in the UK: people from Liverpool are known as "scousers", a series of sketches in a comedy show by Harry Enfield showed them as argumentative (with catchphrases along the lines of "Eh, eh, eh, calm down you two..."), and with dubious fashion sense - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STIvNjWobzA)

Full disclosure: I was born in Liverpool but moved away for work many years ago so I now count as a "wool", this was a gift for a relative.

It can be adapted to work as a generic extra mini keyboard that can be programmed to type any set of keystrokes that you want.

Print Settings

Printer:

mini Kossel

Rafts:

No

Supports:

No

Resolution:

0.1mm layers preferred

Infill:

Any

Notes:

Interior brim is advised for the keys, ideally enough to meet in the middle better to support the thin vertical columns

How I Designed This

Made in OpenSCAD

Files included, adapt as you wish

Custom Section

Code and wiring

Teensy 2.0 used to make the keyboard, code in https://github.com/pittance/scouseKeyboard

Wire up 3 cherry mx type keys with common connection to ground. Connect each other terminal of the switches to pins 6, 7 & 8 (or others if you adapt the code)

Trim the soldered wires flush with the bottom of the board to allow it to sit flat in the case

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