(trash rustling)
- I'm going to better keyboard out of trash.
I'm going to have to pick that up again, aren't I?
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Now back to the keyboard.
I'm going to start by grabbing a few of these items.
These should be perfect for the keyboard
I plan on building.
I've already got a PCB plate and switches.
These didn't come from the beach unfortunately.
I picked up a nice styrofoam container for the case.
This is going to involve a lot of cutting.
I should have been more careful with the Exacto knife
and I'm glad no one got injured during this one.
I did use a cutting board though,
So the table's fully protected.
The styrofoam container was sticky for some reason,
there was still sand residue despite
me hosing it off with water.
The case is extremely flexible.
And some might say bouncy like the fancy stuff.
It's durable with strong structural supports of duct tape
and hot glue, lots of hot glue.
Like five sticks worth to make
everything stick together properly.
Another really awesome feature is
A screwless design. No screws visible at all,
just two rows of duct tape.
And you know, it's sort of nice,
but maybe I should have painted it, make it fancy,
make it look aluminum even.
This reminds me of doing crafts in elementary school
with styrofoam plates and macaroni noodles.
The keyboards made through a screwless trash mountain
design and it provides a nice,
simple bounce on each key stroke.
And more duct tape of course to get the other side
and it still works.
It works!
Before building this,
we headed down to the closest beach to pick up some trash
only to realize the beach was already pretty clean.
Hello there.
Where's the trash?
But deep within the crevasses rocks and buried in sand,
there was still trash, some real nasty stuff.
Key cap time.
I thought of this genius idea of using
the styrofoam plates that I had picked up.
I also got a Starbucks cup,
but unfortunately it was still super dirty
and I didn't want to touch it. So it just stood there.
I didn't get paid to put it there
or anything it's just there.
So I cut off a bunch of these
"key caps" in double quotations
and hot glued all of them to the switches.
I really thought they would fit on there perfectly.
But in the end there was some interference with the hot blue
beads and the switches and some of the keys don't really pop
back up properly unless you pull them up.
But you know, that's by design.
It's perfect, nothing wrong at all.
For the perfect angle here,
I got some bottle caps for the back again,
hot glue to the bottom like usual.
And I did get some rubber feet too,
just to make sure things didn't slide too crazily everywhere
I hand wrote all of the legends from memory
and I'm surprised there was nothing wrong with it.
You could say they're extremely custom
and I didn't like that they were all just white.
So I decided to go for a very ocean theme key cap set
if you know what I mean.
Blue on blue, on blue, on white.
Now, if only I thought about coloring them earlier,
then I would have colored it before I wrote the legends
down. But you know, it still looks pretty good in the end.
I call this GMK styrofoam ocean.
The styrofoam key caps adds a touch of Kringle to the
sound profile while the custom key caps have slight
interference with the switches, this is by design.
The non-uniform design allows you
to easily tell each key apart without looking at them.
No more confusion for those who can't read letters,
and the hand written key caps are
what one might call 'Artisan.'
And for the most distinguished enthusiast
out there, yes there is RGB.
(typing)
If you made it to the end of the video,
you guys are the best seriously. You're the best.
And even if you only donate a dollar
every little bit helps.
Lets go save our oceans!
(dramatic music)