Thinkpad keyboard mod (super early stages)!

I did that, and it came out to $19 w/o shipping, $32.06 with (slow) shipping to the US, for qty 5. That breaks down to their usual $4 setup plus an extra $15 charge for the board size, but overall not bad.

To keep this keyboard-related: this is also roughly the size needed for the bottom PCB needed for a full-custom keyboard layout (a little wider, not as tall), so feasible for that as well. Dropping the thickness down to 0.4mm for that purpose doesn’t increase the cost at all.

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So very cool. Might be something of interest for the wider community to replace the top plate, potentially. For a future thing, after you’ve got the keyboard mod working the way you want for yourself :slight_smile:

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This looks brilliant. I would absolutely love to have one, given the fact that I’m an avid VIM and Sway user, and would purchase the parts needed as soon as they’re available!

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That prototype looks exciting. What’s the next step here? Can we help?

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Is this also possible on the Laptop 13? I’d love to have the Thinkpad keyboard back :stuck_out_tongue: