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geekhack Community => New Members => Topic started by: EvergreenTree on Mon, 23 July 2018, 19:23:46

Title: Hello fellow keyboard enthusiasts!
Post by: EvergreenTree on Mon, 23 July 2018, 19:23:46

Hello everyone!

I recently jumped headfirst into the mechanical keyboard community by hand-wiring a 60% keyboard:

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Build details: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/8zkim2/photos_white_and_green_my_first_handwired/e2jbqtm/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/8zkim2/photos_white_and_green_my_first_handwired/e2jbqtm/)
More pictures: https://imgur.com/a/vrZ0zKW (https://imgur.com/a/vrZ0zKW)

I am really excited to build more keyboards and to become more familiar with this community; so far, it has been incredibly helpful and friendly and I hope to be here for quite a while.

Title: Re: Hello fellow keyboard enthusiasts!
Post by: infiniti on Thu, 26 July 2018, 09:11:53

Welcome to Geekhack! :cool:

WHOA...not many people jump straight into a hand-wired keyboard!  :eek: Your build would be right at home in our Making Stuff Together! subforum (https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=117.0).

P.S. Very clean soldering

Title: Re: Hello fellow keyboard enthusiasts!
Post by: EvergreenTree on Thu, 26 July 2018, 21:14:24

Quote from: infiniti on Thu, 26 July 2018, 09:11:53

Welcome to Geekhack! :cool:

WHOA...not many people jump straight into a hand-wired keyboard!  :eek: Your build would be right at home in our Making Stuff Together! subforum (https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=117.0).

P.S. Very clean soldering

Thanks!  I do have some experience soldering hand-wired projects (outside of custom keyboards). I never would have hand-wired a keyboard without some prior experience with soldering, and I definitely would recommend that most people stay away from hand-wiring as a first custom keyboard.