{"id":73,"date":"2017-12-15T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/?p=73"},"modified":"2017-12-15T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:51:09","slug":"another-iris-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Another Iris Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I found out that I ordered the wrong LED’s. The types needed for mechanical switches are 1.8mm (round) or 2x3x4mm (square). I ordered 5mm (round) LED’s and there is a good chance they won’t end up fitting under the key caps. I looked at returning them, but the cost of shipping them back was about the same price as ordering them, (the difference being a savings of $.29 or so). At least a pack of 100 LED’s isn’t super expensive.<\/p>\n

I just ordered my switches from switchTop<\/a> for $0.25 each.\u00a0I’m super excited! I’m at the point now where I’m waiting for the Iris cases\/plates to be in stock and then all I’ll have left to buy is the key caps, which I kind of need for a functional keyboard.\u00a0This brings my out of pocket up to $58.29. (I bought a couple extra switches for my co-worker who wanted to swap out some of his browns for blues.)<\/p>\n

Now I just need to get a soldering iron and practice a bit prior to starting the task ahead. I’ll get some process pointers from my co-worker before I begin, just so I streamline it. There is a part of me that wants to wait till I buy my case and get it sent before I start soldering so I can take ‘before’ pictures with all the packages together, but I doubt my excitement will allow that. Plus it would be kind of neat to have this done before Christmas so I can show it to you, but I don’t want to rush it. I do plan on taking progress pictures, but I’ve said that in the past and usually forget to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I found out that I ordered the wrong LED’s. The types needed for mechanical switches are 1.8mm (round) or 2x3x4mm (square). I ordered 5mm (round) LED’s and there is a good chance they won’t end up fitting under the key caps. I looked at returning them, but the cost of shipping them back was […]<\/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\/73"}],"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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}