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A community focused around Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboards and strange input devices. Embrace the jank.
I went all in on this one (I knew nothing about PCB design before really). It turned out to be a bit of a time sink, but I'm glad I did it. Part of the design was the PCB peaking out with the controller and IDC port peaking out.
I want to do a monoblock build at some point, and it'll probably be a hand-wired enclosed design. Should be fun!
It's really subtle to my fingers. The bump feels a touch more pronounced, and the travel smoother. It adds up though. I found the browns unpleasant to use whereas the sunsets are a joy so far.
There'll probably be one more revision of the design to add backlighting and a reset button (this revision uses an elite-c which has one on the board, but the LED is annoying me so I'll flip it over).
Parts:
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PCB developed in Kicad 5. Gerbers etc. on the repo for it.
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Steel back and front plates.
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MoErgo MCC-Profile POM 1U Keycaps
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Choc brown switches in these photos, but recently swapped them out for sunsets.
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Single controller (elite-c here). This is a single key matrix over a ribbon cable.
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Using Miryoku for the key map.
A community focused around Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboards and strange input devices. Embrace the jank.
A community focused around Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboards and strange input devices. Embrace the jank.
FG-11 An asymmetric, (very) column staggered split keyboard
Next project: Split columns for every finger!
A community focused around Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboards and strange input devices. Embrace the jank.
A community focused around Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboards and strange input devices. Embrace the jank.
FG-11 An asymmetric, (very) column staggered split keyboard
Silly reasons!
I found the idea of a second controller or an IO expander kind of overkill just to avoid a few extra wires (particularly on keyboards with a smaller switch matrix like this one). I'm also of an age where ribbon cables induce nostalgia, so the two things added up to using a ribbon here.
On the switch matrix... The right hand side has its own columns (pins from the controller go directly to the IDC connector for those), but the rows are continued over the ribbon from the left side (so it's a single matrix rather than two to lower the number of IO pins used).
A community focused around Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboards and strange input devices. Embrace the jank.
A community focused around Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboards and strange input devices. Embrace the jank.
FG-11 An asymmetric, (very) column staggered split keyboard
I've not see that video, but it sounds interesting. I'll look it up!
