Mechanical Keyboards

13341 readers

1 users here now

Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
If so, this community is for you!

Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

Banner by Jay Zhang on Unsplash

founded 5 years ago

Time to take a Detour (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by tankplanker@lemmy.world to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You “snapped the numpad off” and the rest of the board kept working?! I wish to subscribe to your blog.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I mean, it helped that I knew the designer, LOL.

IIRC, there is one single bodge wire in there from where I did compromise the matrix, but I cannot stress how simplistic this PCB design was. It is holes for switches, holes for diodes, holes to string it over to the microcontroller dev board, and traces connecting them all. My second one is slightly more ambitious, allowing a couple of layout choices, Alps or MX, and has a designated spot to solder a specific MCU. That one requires two bodge wires because I screwed up the traces a little. If I do a third, I will know to make sure every trace is assigned to a "subnet" before I tell KiCAD to clean things up.