My hopes of having a completed left-hand side for this project log have not been realized. It has been an interesting couple of weeks since then.

First, when I started printing that grey left-hand side in the last log, I forgot to un-mirror the switch backplates, so the hotswap sockets wouldn't fit.

Also, the microcontroller mount went... a bit wrong.

That was a bit of a disappointment, since it involved scrapping the whole print, but it was also a good opportunity to discover that I actually don't like the results with the grey filament. I switched back to black for the next print, which had a few corrections in it.

It came out looking pretty good, but apparently it still needed a few more corrections - on the innermost column, the hotswap sockets wouldn't fit without me drilling through the side of the case.

After sitting with the printed keyboard with keys in for a few days, I started trying to solder together the matrix, starting with the hardest-to-reach key, and realized... it's a bit too hard to reach.

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So, after all this, I took a detour to start porting the keyboard to Python since it's way more familiar to me, and lately I need all the help I can get overcoming mental fog. I'm hoping to have the basic key positions ported in the next couple of days, and then I can work on reimagining the case. Since I'm taking off the "skirt" I had added in my original modification, it's probably going to end up looking way more like the original Dactyl. I really didn't see that one coming.

Who knows, maybe I'll take some inspiration from the Heron v1.