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Ben Valleck has an ultra-approachable video on building your own keyboard [0]. PCBs are incredibly cheap to print (<$25 shipped for me to print at https://jlcp
by tbran 4y ago
Ben Valleck has an ultra-approachable video on building your own keyboard [0].
PCBs are incredibly cheap to print (<$25 shipped for me to print at https://jlcpcb.com https://jlcpcb.com, IIRC), and he shows you how to do some mods to the schematic using KiCad [1].
BV also has some crazier minimal keyboard designs like this 18-key split one with lots of layers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNOGEtqn85o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNOGEtqn85o
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqpBKuEVinw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqpBKuEVinw
[1]: https://www.kicad.org/ https://www.kicad.org/
- gigaflop 4y agoI'm also gonna link the ai03 tutorial I used to design/build my own custom board. Text based, multiple pages: https://wiki.ai03.com/books/pcb-design/page/pcb-guide-part-1---preparations https://wiki.ai03.com/books/pcb-design/page/pcb-guide-part-1... Once you build your first little macropad, and verify that your design is generally correct, you can fork the repo you created and pretty much copy/paste your MCU region, and build a new grid of keys around it. The guide also gave me good tips on what to have assembled, and what to hand-solder, to be able to cut some costs.
- riskable 4y agoI made my own tutorial about how to design your own analog keyboard: https://youtu.be/TfKz_FbZWLQ https://youtu.be/TfKz_FbZWLQ It's ultimately the same process I used to create my Analog Hall Effect Keyboard that was reviewed by Chyrosran22 recently: https://youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI https://youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI
- utopcell 4y agohey riskable, thanks for making these vids and for sharing knowledge about your 3d-printed hall-effect keys; keep them coming! :-)