Braille Keyboard Covers v2.4 (customisable)

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Customize these printings and stick them on your keyboard with the patterns and spacings on V2.2 from Marburg Medium braille font standard. Please check the instructions. Please offer suggestions for improvement. Next version will include better dot height functionality. V2.4 - August 25, 2019, added Swedish keys å, ä, ö. V2.3 - July 23, 2015 Added Braille Scale Multiplier to increase braille size. V2.2 - May 7, 2015 Made customizable. The scad file has a matrix of all the braille letters that you can use in your own project if you wish (to save yourself from having to make them by hand). Open in OpenSCAD for best results, instructions at https://youtu.be/cukWgTyvWNs. CUSTOMIZER_V2.4.scad Current Thingiverse Customizer version Most up-to-date version based on worldwide braille medical standards: http://www.pharmabraille.com/. Default size is at minimum key size, you will likely want to increase this. • Use the "Text Drop Down Box Select sets" to create STLs of specific character sets (all, alphabetic, numeric, symbols, functions, commands) due to the complicated operations Thingiverse might have problems rendering the whole set at once. • The main settings to modify are Base Height, Key Size & Braille Scale. • If you want to customize more, all the braille settings regarding spacing and dot height are accessible if you download the scad file and open it directly in OpenSCAD. You can eliminate rendering problems on Thingiverse by using OpenSCAD also. braille_allKeys_v2.2.stl Default settings with $fn=21. All V2.2 keys. Warning: these are at the minimum possible size. Use customiser to increase to the size of your keyboard keys in mm. /////////////// OLD STUFF LEFT HERE JUST BECAUSE //////// Old ways :(brailleOpenSCAD_v1.zip Contains three OpenSCAD files to create higher quality custom tiles using Braille Normal font. Along with the original customer version: customisable_brailleKeys_v1.1.scad This one uses Thingiverse's built-in "write/braille.dxf" font, which is lower resolution and only supports alphanumeric & symbols.