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Cool idea, but I’d imagine the keys are going to rub the silkscreen off in under a week. I just got some boards in from OSH Park and some of the silkscreen was rubbed off just from the boards shuffling against each other in the envelope.
While that is true, there are still a few easy ways to spraycoat or otherwise laminate these pcbs so that the details stick around for a long time! I really want to make one of these myself.
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Nice!!!!
I’ll take two!
Cool idea, but I’d imagine the keys are going to rub the silkscreen off in under a week. I just got some boards in from OSH Park and some of the silkscreen was rubbed off just from the boards shuffling against each other in the envelope.
While that is true, there are still a few easy ways to spraycoat or otherwise laminate these pcbs so that the details stick around for a long time! I really want to make one of these myself.