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@alans 🤣 That is an… interesting auto-correction.

@milesmcbain Woohoo! Well done 🎉

@BestofTimes lovely photos. I like the both, but the B&W one has a really ethereal feel.

@milesmcbain crkbd twins! The second one is going less smoothly because I chose to install LEDs this time - they are really hard to solder!

Flashing the Elite-Cs went ok both times though. If you check the Autoflash box in the QMK firmware app it worked ok for me. I think you can also short a couple of pins on the controller to reset if your button isn’t working, but I’m not sure which ones.

The case on the first one is just a basic FR4 plate case, but I may go back and replace it with foam for the base later. I’m using the same case for my current one, but planning to design some kind of tray case using acrylic and plywood.

@milesmcbain Exciting! I’d be interested to hear how you get on with it once you’ve finished it. I love mine. So much so that I’m making a second, with RGB LEDs this time.

@jean So sorry to hear that. I reckon that Grace and Ada had great lives with you caring for them. 💙

@odd Hostile Makeover is genius!

@jeremycherfas Hehe, I’d forgotten about that!

@mjdescy Well, sometimes I trip over my fingers when I am trying to write down my thoughts. At others, I could chip them out of stone with a chisel and still keep up 🤣

@mjdescy Thanks! It’s a really interesting system. I think that typing as fast as I think would make all kinds of writing faster, not just meeting notes, but I’ve got a way to go before I’m that fast!

@jeremycherfas Hehe, you should have seen my Ergodox after several months of cats sleeping on the keyboard!

@jeremycherfas Good plan 👍

@jeremycherfas Projects are good :-) Maybe a quick project, so you can get it done in one go?

@jeremycherfas Thank you! I thought it might help if anyone else is thinking about making a keyboard. It's not as hard or complicated as you might think.

@herself The ‘ghost poo’ was my favourite! Such a perfect name for a weird fungus, and very appropriate 😁

@mjdescy Nothing wrong with that - Ergodox make really nice keyboards and there’s definitely a level of finish you don’t get with a home-made board.

@agilelisa Thank you!

@jayeless @jeremycherfas Thanks both!

@jack I loved making it - very satisfying.

@odd Thanks, it seems so tiny compared to my Ergodox EZ. It will take me a little while to get used to the layout, (numbers are on a different layer as it lacks the top number row of keys as you can see). I made it mostly as a board that's more suitable for stenography (which I am also learning), but I'm actually liking it a lot for qwerty typing too.

@Miraz Thanks! Some beginner's luck too I think!

@herself @Miraz That’s a fascinating article! I love Latin names, but common names are so much more interesting because they tell you about the culture of people who have lived with those organisms for hundreds of years. In the UK, the most beloved/useful species tend to have the greatest number of different common names.

@mjdescy I have an Ergodox EZ. It took me a little while to adapt to an ortholinear layout, but once I did, it feels so much more natural than a staggered layout.

@kirschen It was exciting when I inserted the battery and turned it on for the first time 😬🎉

@mjdescy Nice! Once you go ortholinear, you never go back...