Tools Hack Daily: Keyboard key tray #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Keyboard key tray #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Do you hate playing 87-pickup when you’re cleaning your keyboard? Do you have more keycaps than keyboards? Does spending $20+ on an injection molded chunk of plastic seem obnoxious for cheap novelty keys? This is for you, then – a parametric OpenSCAD design that prints a 6×6 tray for holding your keycaps. A TKL only needs three trays, one for alpha+numeric, one for function+navigation and one for the wide keys. A full 104 key needs another tray for the numpad. There’s also a cover for them so you can band up the key trays and put them in storage.

You can adjust the parametric settings if you have a bigger bed or a faster printer (or unusually large keys) and a full-bed solid layer isn’t a 90 minute adventure per layer, and you will probably need to tweak the top design for however tall your keys are – cherry profile keys stack up a lot shorter than SA profile keys, for example.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5204527

Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

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