I usually use boards with numpads, but my TKL’ish handwire with Box Navies has just sort of stayed on my desk. After another project fizzled, I figured I’d go back to basics and make something quick I’d been putting off. This numpad went from design to fabrication in just a couple of days. Another Masonite hardboard laser-cut project, but there was a can of indoor/outdoor textured spray paint in the garage, and it came out way nicer than I had any right to expect. Dug out most of the numpad keys from the same VSA set currently on my board, as well as the last three blank red DSA keycaps. The numpad came in within 1mm of the oak and aluminum keyboard’s height, which is nice. Switches are Gateron KS-3 blue, so a pretty garden variety clicky, but smoother than average. KMK running on an AliExpress RP2040 board.
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