Picking Atlas's switches with thock
Atlas can stock three Kailh Choc v2 switches. We built thock to audition all sixteen in a browser: spectrum, playback, room presets. Vote on your favourite switches.
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7 entries · Belgium · 2025–present
Lab Journal
Builds, experiments, and write-ups from the shop floor.
Atlas: committing to Kailh Choc v2
Atlas's switch choice moves from Choc v1 with custom-stretched key spacing to Choc v2 at native MX pitch. Same low-profile body, but every keycap on the MX shelf now fits.
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Atlas: reading the trackpoint with a 24-bit ADC
Replacing the Sprintek "all-in-one" TrackPoint module's PS/2 path with a bare strain-gauge stick read directly by a TI ADS1220 over SPI. Bench-proven end-to-end; PCB design is the active workstream.
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Atlas: split keyboard with dual TrackPoints and optional trackball
Atlas is our open-source split keyboard with a TrackPoint under each hand and an optional central trackball. The repo is live on GitHub.
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Featured on HackADay!
Hackaday wrote about our experiment turning a OnePlus 6 phone into a tiny NixOS machine. The article: "8-Core ARM Pocket Computer Runs NixOS".
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Why MWLabs Runs on NixOS
NixOS lets us set up a laptop, a drone, or a Raspberry Pi the way we want it, then reproduce that setup on any machine with one command. Here is what we use it for at MWLabs.
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RadioMaster Boxer LED spacer — low-profile 3D-printable replacement
The stock RadioMaster Boxer LED ring spacers leave the screws too short and may limit stick travel. We modeled low-profile replacements in Fusion 360. STL inside.
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