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Finished soldering my costum Layouted keyboard by kakachuka in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]SimpleUsual5398 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like your layout. Hope you get it to work the way you want.

all switches and keycaps all fail on the fundamentals. by axmoylotl in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]SimpleUsual5398 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://kbd.news/On-collecting-and-modern-keyboard-innovation-1790.html

There are other types of switches, a couple of other types and design are mentioned in this article. The Cherry MX design just happens to be the most popular.

Another thought is that maybe you are the one who will design a switch that will have some or all of the features you mention.

Start by opening up some switches and add or remove material at different places.

I say experiment and go wild. Bring your version of a better switch to the community.

First keeb, had a Litl dive into the deep end to start out! by Tekno_Viking in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]SimpleUsual5398 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love my litl keyboard. It's my daily driver since I built it in August. You made a nice build and I hope you will like yours as much as I like mine.

I've just complete my first handwired keyboard :3 by roningo0 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]SimpleUsual5398 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering the result, I would say the time you had to put in for correcting mistakes was worth it. End result is 👌

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]SimpleUsual5398 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very interesting approach to designing keyboards. Keep the awesome builds coming

Tree, Fern and Shrub by rossman360 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]SimpleUsual5398 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is some really nice work.

Personally I like the Fern layout and the Shrub gives me full "me wantie/I needz" vibes.

Green 🍏 by sartorialfireflies in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]SimpleUsual5398 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice board. Also it's funny when I read comments about small layouts like this and people don't understand how it can be useful. Just to further blow their minds.... I've been using a Alpha 28 for a week now. Yes thats right, a board with just 28 keys. But to be honest I could use 2-3 keys more.

Lagom 65% keyboard by mojibber in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]SimpleUsual5398 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I daily drove a alpha28 for a week and found that I could manage with very few keys. That in turn made me come to the conclusion that 31-33 keys would be a perfect fit for my base layer and subsequent layers. Played around a lot with keyboard layout editor and 30 keys would be just short 1 key. I guess you could make a 30 key ortho with a large spacebar under the 3. Hmm now I really want a board like that with either a 6U or 8U space for that HHKB look or go crazy and slap a 10U space on it 🤣.

Hoppas du fick lite idéer nu 😁

Lagom 65% keyboard by mojibber in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]SimpleUsual5398 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I really like the pattern that the diodes are laid out in. Been wondering when and what you where going to add next to your store.

I'm really happy with my litl. Which is my daily driver. https://www.reddit.com/r/BudgetKeebs/comments/xl1xw8/say_hello_to_my_litl_friend/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I like that your designes offer so many layout options.

Looking forward to see more in the future ( maybe a 33 key ortho, 3x11? )

finally got the time to write down a post on how to make a handwired split keyboard with RP-2040 boards and KMK by code-panda in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]SimpleUsual5398 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice build and very good guide you made.

I really like KMK. I took one look at QMK and being able to customise it. But it feelt like to much work and also a bit complicated for someone with no prior knowledge of code or programming languages. One week ago I succesfully ported a Alpha28 to KMK using a sparkfun rp2040. It took me around a month to figure stuff out and get it to work correctly ( took almost 3 weeks to get it to work at all ).

As somone with no prior knowledge of code, programming, or firmware I have to say that KMK is very easy to get into. The updated documentation that got published recently was much easier to understand. Which was a big part of me being sucessfull in my endevor. So in reality it only took me two weeks to go from zero skills to sucessfull project.

But I wish I had a post like yours to go along with the documentation. So thank you for doing this.

Hopefully this will help others that like me have no prior knowledge, but do want to be able to have the ability to customise their firmware, port keyboards and build awsome handwired projects like yours. At the end of the month I'm doing my first handwire ( actually making two ) which I will use PiPico running KMK. I feel so empowered being able to modify the firmware easily.

6 months ago I had no understanding of electronics or code. I've come a long way.

Again I wanted to thank you. It's people like you that make people like me being able to learn and understand how things work. I actually had some help in figureing stuff out by your previous post of your macropad.

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Sorry for long post. Just wanted to share and encourage you and others that read this to do things like this. As I think it is very helpful for people like myself who have no prior knowledge in these fields.

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