Stucco series - the beginning
Story
When I came into the hobby I first did not think I could make and develop my own keyboards. Disassembling and understanding keyboards I slowly built up an understanding for them and Jan (a friend I met by buying something from him) pushed me to first copy a design (Polaris) and then improve on it. Thanks for that! Thats why this really was a collaboration with him. Several ideas came from him or during discussions, engineering and printing was done by me. The first Stucco was the Stucco{15} because this was/is his favourite layout and the start of it all.
Name
The design idea was to use an half-arc from stucco (German: Stuck) used for example on ceilings as a design element. The english word for it sounded nice so the search for a name was over pretty fast.
The naming scheme after the name describes the horizontal size of the layout in (MX-) units. The brackets are either curly when its a rowstagger layout or square when its ortho.
Magnets - how do they work?
Screws always make the underside look punctured. It can be done reasonably well, but disassembly without tools and a clean bottom are nicer. That is why I tried to use magnets. At first they were pretty small and fiddly to assemble, later I used bigger ones which overcame these problems.
Versions
Over time different sizes and layouts came into existence with this design. Smaller, bigger, ortho, with Alps and a V4N.
Stucco[10]
| Topic | Explanation | Link |
|---|---|---|
| PCB | OpenSource | Endeavour by ScatteredDrifter |
| Case | not published | |
| Build Guide | Similiar to Stucco 10¼ | Stucco 10¼ Build Guide |
| Mounting | Simple Gasket Mount | |
| Date | 04/2022 | |
| GB | never, just build to order |
Pictures and black Build by oldman
Stucco{10¼}
Story
The Stucco10 existed already and isp had the idea to incorporate some 
RGB in the pen rail. After some iterations with LED-strips I even made a custom LED-PCB with a lot of LEDs and diffusor for maximal smoothness for it. He adapted the QEZ-PCB by elmo to use the rp2040 and added ezMate connectors for the LED-PCB.
| Topic | Explanation | Link |
|---|---|---|
| PCB | OpenSource | QEZberry by isp |
| Case | not published | |
| Build Guide | Finished | Build Guide |
| Mounting | Simple Gasket Mount | |
| Special Feature | Custom LED-PCB with 55 LEDs for smoooth RGB | |
| Date | 10/2022 | |
| GB | Finished | 12/2023 |
Stucco{15}
| Topic | Explanation | Link |
|---|---|---|
| PCB | Waffling60 | 4pplet Shop |
| Case | not published | |
| Mounting | Simple Gasket Mount | |
| Special Feature | First Board of the Stucco series, developed with Jan | |
| Date | 10/2021 | |
| GB | Finished, 2 rounds | 2022 |
Picture by InfuseQ
Stucco{15AEK II}
Story
Boozar wanted a case for the Apple Extended Keyboard II caps and switches. After a little convincing I agreed. The original Apple on the case is so nice. Glad I did this now. Alps are ok but there is no need for me to dig deeper there, modern MX switches are just plain better, sorry.
Found a Custom-PCB by Piefke (also works with AEKISO by 4pplet), so I only needed to adapt the case a little.
Facts
| Topic | Explanation | Link |
|---|---|---|
| PCB | AEKISO by 4pplet | 4pplet Shop |
| Case | not published | |
| Build Guide | Finished | Build Guide |
| Mounting | Simple Gasket Mount | |
| Special Feature | Original Apple Logo | |
| GB | never, just build to order |
Stucco[15-10]
Story
Jan wanted an ortho TKL layout. Scatted Drifter was so nice to make us the PCB, I did not yet learn how to do that myself. I prefer 40% layouts but Jan wanted a Numrow. So we settled on a PCB with a breakable bottom row. This way one PCB could be used for both. And the TKL-cluster was full of switches and two encoders, so several combinations incl a Numpad are possible.
Facts
| Topic | Explanation | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Name | 15-10 = 15u minus 10 = 15u TenKeyLess, square brackets mean Ortho | |
| Case | not published | |
| PCB | OpenSource | PCB by Scattered Drifter |
| Build Guide | Finished | Build Guide |
| Mounting | Gasket Mount on the short sides of the plate | |
| Special Feature | Flexible Mounting, Magnets, 4- and 5-row with one PCB (break-off), idea for the layout by Jan | |
| GB | PCBs and cases available |
Pictures and Orange Build by Jan
Trucco
Story
I had some PCBs of the Stucco [1510] still laying around, then M4NU (whos favorite layout is the V4N) had the idea to only half-use the existing numrow. Because the name had to have something to do with bigger vehicles, a "Truck-Stucco" was born.
Pictures
Pictures and Build by M4NU
