{"id":65,"date":"2017-12-09T14:15:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T20:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/?p=65"},"modified":"2017-12-09T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T20:24:36","slug":"iris-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Iris update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I created a list of things I have <strong>bought<\/strong> and still <em>need<\/em> to buy to get this puppy going, and wanted to share it here so you&#8217;d have the info too. Obviously these prices are subject to change, but here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve priced\/spent so far. (all prices reflect total including S\/H)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Iris PCB<\/strong> &#8211; $28.65 &#8211; I bought the White PCB Kit with Gold Pads (all others were out of stock) : <a href=\"https:\/\/keeb.io\/collections\/keyboard-pcbs\/products\/iris-keyboard-split-ergonomic-keyboard?variant=2650673709086\">Keebio<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Iris Case<\/em> &#8211; $28.65 &#8211; (Currently out of stock, so I&#8217;ll have to pay for shipping again.) : <a href=\"https:\/\/keeb.io\/collections\/cases-plates\/products\/iris-keyboard-case-plates?variant=1822270980126\">Keebio Plates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>TRRS Cable<\/strong> &#8211; $3.89 &#8211; Cable required to connect the left and right keyboards together. : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monoprice.com\/product?p_id=18632\">Monoprice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Purple LEDs<\/strong> &#8211; $6.95 &#8211; Have to have back lit keyboards! : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01AUI4VTM\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>LED Resistors\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; $7.99 &#8211; Need to control the power flow to the LEDs : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01LZU520P\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Arduino Micro Pro (x2)<\/strong> &#8211; $39.90 &#8211; These are a bit pricey, but I hear they&#8217;re the better ones. : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01B26MAR6\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Gateron Switches<\/em> &#8211; $18.25 &#8211; Blues for my FN keys (16) and Browns for my Alpha-numeric (40). : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.switchtop.com\/product\/gateron-switches\">switchTop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>KeyCaps<\/em> &#8211; ~$30-75 &#8211; Still unknown. There are a lot of sites that sell keycaps, I&#8217;m looking at customizing them based on layers, but still want to stay cheap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve spent $32.54, out of pocket, and $54.84 from my Amazon credit, but this all adds up to $134.28, not including Keycaps, which I still haven&#8217;t figured out exactly what I want. So, were looking at a possible total of ~$185 for this project. I know I can buy a Dvorak firmware keyboard for less, but this is a lot more fun, and it will be really cool to have a unique 65% keyboard that I built myself.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this info helps. Let me know if you still want to talk about this stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I created a list of things I have bought and still need to buy to get this puppy going, and wanted to share it here so you&#8217;d have the info too. Obviously these prices are subject to change, but here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve priced\/spent so far. (all prices reflect total including S\/H) Iris PCB &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}