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Title: PCB-layout wizard needed to collaborate to make 2nd row of fn keys!
Post by: jayeye on Fri, 13 October 2017, 16:35:11

I want to make an extra row of function keys to sit above F1-F12 on the my Model M keyboard, and hook them up using  a Teensy.  Basically, my own, better version of http://xkeys.com/xkeys/xk16.php (http://xkeys.com/xkeys/xk16.php). I may even add a fingerprint reader such as https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13007 (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13007), and, of course, lots of LEDs.

I'm a software engineer by profession; I play with embedded stuff, but so far everything I've done has been with stripboards and wires and breakout boards. The learning curve for PCB layout tools is fairly steep, and I also lack domain knowledge. I haven't laid out my own PCB in decades, back when we were doing it with pressure-transfer labels! I don't want to build something that would look to a hardware engineer what most of the code that's out there for Arduinos looks to me (hint: it looks like what my cats leave in their litterbox twice a day :) ).


Anyone want to collaborate on this? I'm in NYC, so if you're in the area we can design it over beers :)


/ji

Title: Re: PCB-layout wizard needed to collaborate to make 2nd row of fn keys!
Post by: _haru on Sun, 15 October 2017, 02:53:27

I don't know if it was intentional, but the first line of text is very tiny.

Title: Re: PCB-layout wizard needed to collaborate to make 2nd row of fn keys!
Post by: jayeye on Sun, 15 October 2017, 13:07:13

It looks just fine to me.