Slim Profile USB Micro-B Cable?

[MCDELTAT]

Weird question here: I was wondering if anyone here has ever come across a really slim profile USB Micro-B cable? (Other end can be USB-A or USB-C I suppose).

If I can't just buy one from a store anyone got a decent place for DIY cable parts?

The reason is that I just build a custom keyboard ( https://68keys.io/ to be exact). While I really enjoy it, with SA Keycaps on it, I find that it's just barely too high up, even with a wrist rest. I can see that the cable is the limiting factor here. I think right now I can shrink it from 15mm spacers to 12mm spacers right now without a change of cable. From my measurements, it seems like I can actually get it closer to 10mm if I get a really thin cable. I.E. just barely thicker than the connector itself.

Ideas?
 

[geo3]

17 hours ago, MCDELTAT said:

Weird question here: I was wondering if anyone here has ever come across a really slim profile USB Micro-B cable? (Other end can be USB-A or USB-C I suppose).

If I can't just buy one from a store anyone got a decent place for DIY cable parts?

The reason is that I just build a custom keyboard ( https://68keys.io/ to be exact). While I really enjoy it, with SA Keycaps on it, I find that it's just barely too high up, even with a wrist rest. I can see that the cable is the limiting factor here. I think right now I can shrink it from 15mm spacers to 12mm spacers right now without a change of cable. From my measurements, it seems like I can actually get it closer to 10mm if I get a really thin cable. I.E. just barely thicker than the connector itself.

Ideas?
 

Gonna need pictures. I'm not sure what you're trying to do exactly. Also never heard of a custom keyboard with Micro-B cable. They are all either Mini-B or USB-C

[MCDELTAT]

8 hours ago, geo3 said:

Gonna need pictures. I'm not sure what you're trying to do exactly. Also never heard of a custom keyboard with Micro-B cable. They are all either Mini-B or USB-C

You got it. It's a sandwich keyboard run off of a Chinese Arduino Pro Micro https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12587 . So I get the USB Micro-B from that directly (I'm probably going to revise this board some later time to add USB-C and SMD leds).

So my goals is simply to shrink down the cable so that I can get the bottom plate as close as possible to the Arduino, which is the highest thing on the PCB.

https://imgur.com/23Q5opf

https://imgur.com/5y7i7q1

[geo3]

9 hours ago, MCDELTAT said:

https://imgur.com/23Q5opf

https://imgur.com/5y7i7q1

Ah. I see now. I don't know of any cables much slimmer than what you have there. If it were me I'd just use a razor and shave down the housing on the head of the cable.

[MCDELTAT]

10 hours ago, geo3 said:

Ah. I see now. I don't know of any cables much slimmer than what you have there. If it were me I'd just use a razor and shave down the housing on the head of the cable.

This is probably my end solution. I may just carefully rip off the shielding and then add heat shrink tubing around it. Thinnest it’ll ever be.