As soon as next year, plans to sell fully-assembled SuperLyras, kits, and bare-bones PCBs. While we don’t have a lot of details, there will be plenty forthcoming on the Black Cat Plasticworks website. This is ’s back-to-the-office build, and it’s sure to start a few conversations. Usually, the only thing missing from these mono-block splits is the num pad. For one thing, the angles are always just right without having to mess with anything, so muscle memory gets you back to the home row every time. We sure do love a good one-piece split keyboard, and it’s not just because you never have to worry about the halves drifting too far apart throughout the day, though that’s a big plus. Posted in Peripherals Hacks Tagged encoder, keyboard, KiCAD, lcd, pcb, rgb If your taste is proper old-school clackers, there’s something for everyone. If you need a little help with your typing skills, this shocking example may be the one for you. Here’s our own column all about the things. Obviously, we’ve covered many, many keyboards over the years. Now, if only this pesky electronics shortage could abate a bit, and we could get the parts to build this beauty! (Yes, there are actually three unique PCBs, but we’re simplifying the situation, ok?) This is a simple but genius idea that this scribe hadn’t come across before (the shame!) Secondarily it keeps costs down, as your typical Chinese prototyping house will not deal in PCB quantities below five, so you can make two complete keyboards on one order, rather than needing two orders to make five. The components are populated on different sides of the PCB depending on which half you’re looking at! By mirroring footprints on both PCB sides, and hooking everything up in parallel, it’s possible to do it all with a single master layout. That means the left and right sides are actually the same PCB layout. Interestingly, when you look at the design files (KiCAD, naturally) has chosen to take a mirrored approach to the PCB. This slick design has enough features to keep a fair few of us happy. The keyboard is based on a three PCB stack, two of which are there purely for structure. We have individual per-key RGB LEDs, RGB underglow, a rotary encoder, a five-way tactile thumb switch, and a 240×320 LCD per half. Hardware-wise, the design is fabulous, with a lot of attention to detail. For the time being, maintains a custom release, until it gets merged. It’s a testbed because it uses the newest STM32G4x microcontroller family, and QMK currently does not have support for this in the mainline release. That’s what happened to this scribe the other day when chatting on some random discord, to QMK maintainer about Djinn, a gorgeous 64-key split mechanical keyboard testbed. Sometimes a chance conversation leads you to discover something cool you’ve not seen before, and before you know it, you’re ordering parts for yet another hardware build. With backing from Sony and Sega, it’s a shame that these gaming platforms weren’t a bigger hit than they were, but there are plenty of people around with original hardware who are still patching and repairing them so they can still play some of these unique games.Ĭontinue reading “N-Gage Controller Uses All The Buttons” → Posted in Games Tagged arcade, buttons, controller, emulator, gaming, Joystick, keyboard, N-Gage In the video below, demonstrates it with a few of the N-Gage’s games. The buttons he chose are a little stiff for his liking, but it’s much better than using a keyboard.
, the creator of this project, took some parts from an existing arcade cabinet he had and 3D printed the case in order to craft this custom controller.
The original system had so many buttons that it’s difficult to get even a standard 102-key keyboard mapped comfortably to it, so something custom is almost necessary. Most N-Gage gaming these days takes place on emulators, this build is specifically built for the emulator experience.
And for that reason it had more buttons than a four-player arcade cabinet, which has led to things like this custom controller. For those not familiar, this was a quirky competitor of the Game Boy Advance that was also a cell phone. It’s true for the Virtual Boy, the Atari Jaguar, and of course, the Nokia N-Gage. If there’s anything you can guarantee about a video game system, it’s that in 20 years after one suffers a commercial failure there will be a tiny yet rabid group of enthusiasts obsessed with that system.
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