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Unnamed handwired build

Another unnamed handwired build, this time by vanquishings.

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Published April 23, 2021
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A sandwich build with 1.6mm thick 6061 aluminum for the top and 1.8mm for the bottom.

A cost breakdown of this build:

Plates were about $30 for both. Switches were about $90, caps $60, Cerakote $40, Microcontroller $20 (Teensy++ 2.0), USB-C adapter $3, solder was $3, diodes were $3.

And a single pic about the wiring:https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51128208792_589c7a1e25_h.jpg

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Published on Fri 23rd Apr 2021. Featured in KBD #23 (source).

Tags: handwired

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