I had to wait a little bit longer to assemble the left side as I was waiting for the Mill-Max 0305 sockets to arrive. Of course, I could just solder the key switches to the PCB, but that would make eventual debugging or applying bodge wires much harder. Better wait a bit!

At least I could use the time to prototype a fitting case with the 3D printer:

I swear, I measured it before printing, but it doesn't always work right away. The current case also provides some hohls to mount tenting stands, but I haven't tried those yet.

At the time the sockets arrived, I found out that these sockets make the switches stand out a little more than before so I had to print some underpads:

And with that the sandwich got a bit thicker and the displays flex cables got some more clearance, so actually, I could print the case again, reducing the height by 2 more millimeters. But that's for another day! For now I was just happy to finally see the left side come together:

Here is a very short video I posted on twitter: https://twitter.com/thpoll2/status/1534847633612845058

Right now I'm working on the firmware as there is still plenty of stuff to do to really show what I try to achieve and of course there is also the right side which needs to be revised and assembled, so it will not get boring any time soon.