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dactyl-openjscad

The original dactyl keyboard model at https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard is written in clojure that generates OpenSCAD. I found it difficult to edit:

  • Clojure is not a common language.
  • It takes at least half an hour to render any changes.
  • The build chain has a lot of dependencies.

So I ported the model to OpenJSCAD. Unfortunately as this is a direct port, it contains just as much copy-pasted as the original clojure source.

The original clojure version depended on OpenSCAD's 3d convex hulls. OpenJSCAD lacks native support for both of those features. So this project includes a port of quickhull3d and all of its dependencies with minor modifications for OpenJSCAD. The clojure version also depended on OpenSCAD's 2d-to-3d projections. I wrote a simple projection function that is good enough for this project, but possibly not stable enough for arbitrary shapes.

To render the OpenJSCAD files:

  1. Download them.
  2. Visit https://openjscad.org
  3. Drag the files onto the box that says, "drop one or more supported files here."

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