mjgardner, 3 months ago

@xan I’ll take one in every color! (As long as it’s black)

xan, 3 months ago

@mjgardner thank goodness because I offer every colour that is not not black

mjgardner, 3 months ago

@xan Do you have it in XANTABLACK?

kkarhan, 6 months ago

@xan Looks like a spin on the #SinclairQL and subsequent #ZXspectrum+ series...

TBH, I'd love to see a "#Pi532" @Raspberry_Pi #CM5 with 32GB RAM in a keyboard case like the #Pi400 but with like a 100% / 122+ -key layout...

xan, 6 months ago

@kkarhan That's exactly it! The top case is reverse engineered from and modelled precisely to fit onto the bottom case of a ZX Spectrum+.

kkarhan, 6 months ago

@xan I think it looks gorgeous...

Do you really got your hands on a #CM5? or just retrofitted a #Pi400 board into it?

xan, 6 months ago

@kkarhan Neither; it's an empty shell right now. I'll be working on a custom board for it around a 68040 when I'm in the mood.

kkarhan, 6 months ago

@xan uwu.

I hope that in the meantime you got some #Arduino or #Teensy to make it useful as a #Keyboard with #TMK / #QMK...

xan, 6 months ago

@kkarhan I do intend to use a Pi Pico for that purpose actually! I don't feel like futzing with somebody else's firmware so I'm using just enough of the TinyUSB stack to get that going.

kkarhan, 6 months ago

@xan #PiPico is a good choice too, and even cheaper and wider available as well...

xan, 6 months ago

@kkarhan I have so many of them.

kkarhan, 6 months ago

@xan at €5/piece single and less than €2,50 on reel as board [or €2/piece as IC and less than €1 for the same on reel] they are really a no-brainer.

@fuchsiii got herself a @Raspberry_Pi #PiPicoW to experiment with because this thing really wipes the floor with #Atmel #ATtiny and the like whilst being cheaper and not requiring expensive #DevKit|s to get started.

xan, 6 months ago

@kkarhan I mean, stuff I'd otherwise use a CPLD or FPGA for is quite feasible with the RP2040's PIO block, it's crazy

kkarhan, 6 months ago

@xan Yeah and it's like really affordable, extremely-well documented @Raspberry_Pi ] and just works.

Something that all those "#RaspberryPi #Competitiors" suck at because they don't do proper #documentation nor #support their stuff beyond some OS images...

xan, 6 months ago

@mntmn Is this anything

mntmn, 6 months ago

@xan ohhh QL vibes but mechanical keeb, neat! did you build this or is it a mockup? what's inside? :3

xan, 6 months ago

@mntmn I reverse engineered the ZX Spectrum+ top case, implemented my own in OpenSCAD and made a keyboard for it! There will eventually be a 68040 mounted in the bottom case. (Yes, the new top case mates perfectly to the 1984 original bottom case)

mntmn, 6 months ago

@xan wow, that's rad