External keyboard project.

[stephen_usher]

After making up a couple of joystick internal cables, swapping the header and allowing the paint to dry enough the keyboard is back together.

I'll have to cut away a little more of the rear for the joystick port but otherwise the project is complete.

What do people think? Does it look OK?

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[DoG]

It looks great and it's well done... but something is off for me. Maybe the angle or the thickness in the back? Or that I'm not use to anything looking like that. Or maybe that something is missing? It is to close looking to the existing Atari stuff. Maybe I'm comparing it to Mega ST keyboard. I really don't know.

But really well executed and it looks great. I hope you don't take this as critique. I really like the look. :D

[stephen_usher]

Yeah, without replacing the whole of the lower case it's impossible to reduce the height. It's merely a consequence of basing it on a chopped down version of the case. As it is, there's not a huge amount of space beneath the rear of the keyboard unit and the circuit boards bringing the connections to the rear.

[sporniket]

To me it looks very nice.