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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I wonder how bad an idea it is to mount a raspi pico at a 90-degree angle to a PCB

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I'm trying to design a keyboard that needs to fit into a small area (550mm by 15mm) and I realized I can technically get a little more room by making it have two right-angle PCBs. I could do that by designing two PCBs... or I could just have a pico mounted at 90 degrees!

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

Something not entirely unlike this.

A long PCB featuring many buttons, with a group of right-angle terminal headers connecting to a Pi Pico, which is mounted at a 90 degree angle to the main PCB board
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I just realized this PCB is actually bigger than my chosen PCB fab can make.

I mean, unless I have them make it diagonally, but I imagine that'd be a tad expensive

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I locked up kicad for 5 minutes by accidentally trying to insert 8000 keys

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

@StellaFoxxie suggested I make it EVEN BIGGER and I got up to 254 keys and 1.9m meters before kicad started to completely shit itself

A 3d rendering of a PCB, it's very thin with hundreds of keys in one long line
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

Here it is with an iso-standard height reference, a 5'12" foone

A silhouette of a person standing next to a very thin keyboard, the keyboard is about 10% taller than them
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I made a boringly sensible version of it.
18cm/7", 20 keys.

A thin keyboard with 5 groups of 4 keys. There's a right-angle raspberry pi mounted on the side
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

Labeled the keys

three groups of 4 keys. the first one says "John/Paul/George/Ringo", the second says "Over/Under/Sideways/Down", and the third says "Run/Step Into/Step Over/Step Out"
Two groups of four keys. The first says "Fire/Water/Air/Earth" and the second says "Matt/Mark/Luke/John"
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

parts are ordered. who knows when I'll be able to solder it, but you gotta dream.

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

PCBs & parts arrived! Everything looks good. I'm gonna attempt to solder it together sometime this weekend

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

Arg I have no solder paste. This is going to be a pain to solder

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I finished soldering it together. It's impossible to focus on with my camera (it's tiny and thin!) so here's a blurry photo

A thin keyboard with 20 keys in five groups of 4, arranged in one row
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