I got my kit about 3 weeks ago. I've been working on putting it together ever since, and it's just about finished, but I've been running into some problems. I've managed to get most keys working and the board plugs in and works fine, gets registered as a USB device, etc. I could use some help from anyone with a little more experience with soldering, and with the ErgoDox in particular.
1) A lot of keys on the left-hand side are registering at once, all along the left row. If I press 1 or =, I get 1= at the same time. If I press q or \, I get \q at the same time, etc.
2) One of the little square pads on that side has come loose (according to
this, it's the L_GUI key) , probably from my having to solder and desolder the diodes too many times (the guide on MD doesn't mention that, for instance, the direction of the diodes matters, and at first I soldered all 76 on the wrong side of their respective PCBs, so I had to flip them all several times, on top of a few other problems I ran into). I can't figure out how to solder the diode back on without the pad, and I have no idea how to fix it.
3) None of the keys along the bottom row of the right-hand board work. According to
this image, those should be the four arrow keys and the R_GUI key. I'm using OS X to test it, so I assume that's supposed to be either Option or Command.
4) None of the la 1+-1 keys register. I freely admit that this could be the way I'm testing the keyboard, though, because I'm using the EventViewer program that comes with "KeyRemap4Macbook" program, and it shows keypress events as interpreted by the system, not raw USB input. It could be that those keys don't do anything on a Mac, because I haven't heard of them until now.
5) Neither of the arrow keys on the lower-left side of the left board work.
6) When the board is connected, a burst of directions occurs: right, left, down, up, once each.
There are a few other keys that don't work yet, but I believe that has to do with shoddy soldering, and I'll re-do them before I worry about whether they work.
I'm eager to finish this thing up and start learning to type on it (switching from a Truly Ergonomic), so any advice would be appreciated.