Old version in the back, new version in the front. Fresh off the printing bed. Haven’t tested it yet, but pretty happy on first inspection. Have a few sneaky features. Aiming to release it in a month or so to the community. Using it as an excuse to try out Lemmy :-)
That’s one great looking keyboard there! How did you smooth out the geometry? Looks like you started off with the usual blocky open scad design… and please don’t tell me you did that in fusion 360. I tried so many times to make it run on my Linux box and so far failed…
Haha, you guessed right :-)
I started off with the python dactyl generator and heavily modified it to get the trackball exactly where I wanted. Then I used the step file to place the keys and trackball in Fusion 360. So the new version will feel the same, just look more polished. The whole case is a single form, so that’s how it gets the smooth look.
On your comment about Linux…I mainly use Fusion 360 from my T460 running Fedora, remoted into my big ol windows desktop with a giant video card, scads of RAM and a Ryzen 5 :-)
Ya I never tried to get it working on Linux…good on you for trying!