Modified Adam Keyboard (mostly just the LEGO parts)
Adam Keyboard in Black and White
As someone who loves LEGO and occasionally builds keyboards, I stumbled onto the Adam Keyboard by KBDCraft from a YouTube ad and at $60 for the base kit, totally picked one up.
Adam Keyboard from KBD Craft (took a little under 3 weeks to get to California)
I used 2 boxes of spare Glorious Panda Switches I had lying around along with a set of Ink Lotus OEM Profile Japanese Keycaps. The build was pretty straightforward but there were 2 things I wanted to change. First, I wanted to raise the back so that it wouldn't lie totally flat. And second, that little corner of the baseplate that sticks out in the front totally annoyed me.
That thing in the lower corer in the front since it was curved.
For the parts I needed, I pretty much just raided my existing LEGO pieces and making a trip to the Bricks and Minifigs store. The rest I ordered online from the LEGO website Pick-a-Brick section. I couldn't find all of the pieces I wanted but found most of it. The one piece I couldn't find was that curved corner plate they used for the front under the top-most corner bow brick. Then again, even if I could find it, I couldn't double up on the piece since there wouldn't be a full baseplate support it since I was going to change it so I eventually swapped it out with a larger rounded corner for the bottom.
I used a 3x3 rounded plate for the front corners
I swapped the first and second layers of the keyboard's outer brick layer from the original build in order to create more stability for the new base which is literally a bunch of large plates with the largest ones being a pair of 16x16 black square plates. One place I cheated though was that the lowest corner used a small 1x1 corner tile that was attached directly to the baseplate in the original build but since I swapped that into the 2nd row, you couldn't really attach it since the corner piece doesn't have a peg so for that, I used one of the remaining adhesive foam circles that was left over from the foam used to place the gasket on and used it to keep the corner piece in place.
The round adhesive pegs are the left overs from the foam used here
For the feet, I used inverse plates to give it a smooth surface. They were pretty much all 2x2 inverse tiles with the rear being 4 plates stacked to get the height I wanted (1 brick and 1 plate in height). I put 3 feet sections in the front and 2 at the back with a span in the middle of the back just to support the lower plate since there was a 2x16 plate between the 16x16 ones. The span is about 2 plates thinner than the corners so that doesn't actually touch the table. I'm not sure if it was intentional but the rubber feet from KBD Craft actually fits a 2x4 tile exactly so they perfectly fit over the inverse tiles I used for feet. For the back feet, I placed them a little bit forward since the contact point was on the curved section of the brick.
Aside from the plates and tiles which are easy to find, here are some of the names of the pieces from the LEGO site in case anyone wants to look for them. They come in different colors too in case you want to build one in Red or something.
Aside from the black tiles I used on top, I did add a section where I could replace a part of it with some design tiles. There are bunch of random tiles available and here are some of the ones I had lying around.
Oh, and I did use a mini LEGO keyboard tile in the center.
The original keyboard in itself is actually pretty good and since it's LEGO, I think it's the only one where I can constantly rebuild the case. I'm thinking next to build a full span wrist rest or rebuild the entire case as a larger one with a slot to hold a mobile phone.
