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dirkvl	2014-03-26 , 15:51
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Originally Posted by stefanmohl

I was basically thinking of how to open source your 'know how'; things like (contrived example): "the printed OH often pinches at the top, I usually polish it a bit two centimeters down on the left hand side and that solves it", what glue to apply and where, and stuff like that. Compared to software, there isn't much experience in open sourcing hardware devices. Perhaps wiki.maemo.org could help here too?

the focus and experience on software in this forum is something i am very aware of!

however, even though all my files to make the keyboard are online, i can not imagine someone will make this specific model by them self. it can still be optimized in a lot of ways and it is not very profitable to make one. replacing parts and troubleshooting -> files very welcome.

what i had in mind was a sort of community-standard set of hardware and software tools for other half development. the chip i used in the keyboard (tca8424) still has 75 unused button in its register. so if someone makes another keyboard in a different form factor, different keyboard layout, they can still use the software provided by kimmo!

if you want to design something completely different, like a gamecontroller add-on with all sorts of weird buttons, you can use the same chip, but just map the keys in an unused space! want to add an extra "nintentdo ds-style" display with that? use the same display as the toholed!

this seems more sensible to put my time and effort in than in very elaborately explaining how to glue one specific oh together!