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Design Your Own Keyboard!

Ben Vallack · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Electronics & circuit designEmbedded systems & DIY electronicsConsumer devices & gadgets

What it is

Ben Vallack walks through designing a custom keyboard PCB from scratch using Ergogen and KiCad, ending with a gerber file ready to order from a PCB fabricator. The example is a split keyboard.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a thorough, general walkthrough of the steps in designing your own keyboard.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “It's targeting a split keyboard, but I think it details the general steps involved pretty well.”

    Details general steps of designing a split keyboard

    quigley61, 2022-07 · Recommendation · in “Build Your Own X”

  2. “Watch something from a channel of this hugely underrated gent”

    Channel on building custom 36-key keyboards

    koziserek, 2022-08 · Recommendation · in “The obsessive pleasures of mechanical-keyboard tinkerers”

  3. “You could go one step further and build your own keyboard to match your hands as well.”

    Videos on building a keyboard to match your hands

    hyperturtle, 2023-02 · Recommendation · in “Making a Keyboard Layout”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: ergogen, kicad, split keyboard, pcb, mechanical keyboards

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