Keyboard

Total Time - 16-17 hours

June 9th, 2025: (1 hour)

I made the basic design of the keyboard on www.keyboard-layout-editor.com

June 10th, 2025: (1 hour)

Today made the matrix of the keyboard and the firmware, some part is still left, here is a screenshot of the code

June 16th, 2025: (1 hour)

Today I made the basic schematic of the keyboard in KiCAD I will add the rest of the components later

June 18th, 2025: (2 hour)

Today I completed the schematic and will work on the PCB tomorrow

June 23rd, 2025: (1.5 hour)

Solved the issue of footprints of keys not showing, this is the pcb atm, will place it and work it out soon!

June 25th, 2025: (1.5 hour)

PCB almost done only the routing part is left

June 26th, 2025: (2 hour)

Organised the board a bit and did the routing but it was wrong, so I am redoing it

June 28th, 2025: (1.5 hour)

Asked my friends to look at my PCB, they told me the issues so now I am fixing them, I am like halfway there. I reorganised the keys and the diodes as the keys need to be closer, so here's the latest pic I have

June 29th, 2025: (2 hour)

Finally completed the PCB today without any errors!! Thanks to everyone who helped

July 23rd, 2025: (2.5 hour)

Yes I know I am journaling after a long time that is because I was busy between these days today I tried to complete the case and this is how it turned out. Though I forgot to add space for the display and encoder. I followed the hackpad case tutorial

August 15th, 2025 (1 hour)

Added some complexity to the case as per the review, added text which said the name of the project

September 27th, 2025 (30 minutes)

Changed the position of the header a bit as it was not suitable with the display I will use