6/4 - Started project
time spent: 2 hours
Looking online for inspiration/advice!
r/MechanicalKeyboards, r/ErgoMechKeyboards
https://www.keyboard.university/100-courses
Kailh Choc low profile switches/keycaps
https://keeb.io/products/kailh-choc-low-profile-switches-v1?variant=40343496228958
Raspberry Pi Pico MCU
Possible features to look into?
75% or 65% layout?
Bluetooth
Still a work in progress. Next time I need to figure out the keyboard layout & start working on the PCB schematic.
6/26 Creating the layout
time spent: 2 hours
I used https://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/ to create a reference for creating the schematic:
Since I went with a staggered layout, I used https://www.keyboard.university/100-courses/keyboard-sizes-layouts-gdeby to help find common keycap sizes, but I will likely have to make changes to this later when I find a keycap set. I saved the .json file so I can modify the layout later.
switches needed: 70
row 0: 15
row 1: 16
row 2: 14
row 3: 14
row 4: 11
layout references
https://kbdfansmds-com.myshopify.com/products/tada68-mechanical-keyboard-65-iso-layout
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Flbyp0emddot81.jpg
6/27
time spent:
Footprints
https://github.com/daprice/keyswitches.pretty/tree/master
https://github.com/ncarandini/KiCad-RP-Pico