Hi,
I am currently planning on making my own keyboard, and I think I got a good idea of the whole thing... that remains to be confirmed, but in other threads. Right Now, I have a good idea of the layout I wanna achieve, and come with some way to actually roughly check if what I think is ok to me or not (beside the experience acquired with owned keyboards) :
- get a piece of particle board with melamine finish on it
- place your hands the way you would like it to be on home row, draw the spots of your fingers with a stencil
- repeat for every key you want on your keyboard
- get keycaps from an old keyboard, and hotglue them (anything that will stick them in place temporarily)
- try the courses for your fingers
- tweak it if necessary
- translate it in CAD, with measurements and everything
This is the method I think I will use when I have the occasion, and you, how do you make it ?