Hello from a new member

[ebastler]

Hello everybody!

I finally decided to join GH too, after getting into the custom-keeb-fever a while ago through a friend.
Some may already know me since I am kinda spamming on a bunch of mech-related discords (mainly in the German community) - for everyone else: Hi, my name is Moritz, I'm an electronics-enthusiast and physics student who loves starting projects and then forgetting about them and leaving them half-done. One of those awful ISO_DE users. Nice to meet you!

Since I could not find a keyboard that exactly matched my ideas (at a price I could afford) I decided that my first custom will be a fully self-designed board, and since I love open source stuff, it's available on github (so far only the PCB, the case will follow once it is done). It's not yet finished and/or tested, but it'll get it's own thread in time. Until then, you'll maybe find me in some other topics. Still looking for a keyset for one of my two planned boards, so I am lurking around the keyset IC corner to stare at pretty sets I can't afford.

See you around!

[Maledicted]

Hello everybody!

I finally decided to join GH too, after getting into the custom-keeb-fever a while ago through a friend.
Some may already know me since I am kinda spamming on a bunch of mech-related discords (mainly in the German community) - for everyone else: Hi, my name is Moritz, I'm an electronics-enthusiast and physics student who loves starting projects and then forgetting about them and leaving them half-done. One of those awful ISO_DE users. Nice to meet you!

Since I could not find a keyboard that exactly matched my ideas (at a price I could afford) I decided that my first custom will be a fully self-designed board, and since I love open source stuff, it's available on github (so far only the PCB, the case will follow once it is done). It's not yet finished and/or tested, but it'll get it's own thread in time. Until then, you'll maybe find me in some other topics. Still looking for a keyset for one of my two planned boards, so I am lurking around the keyset IC corner to stare at pretty sets I can't afford.

See you around!

Hi Moritz. Welcome to Geekhack.

Your project process is just like mine. It can be a struggle to end up with less projects than you started with in a given week or month.

Good luck with your custom design. It is very nice of you to release it for others.

[switchnollie]

Welcome

Good luck with the project, with all they keyboards out there, there's still layouts that can be had

[ebastler]

Thanks for the welcome!

Good luck with your custom design. It is very nice of you to release it for others.

Thanks! I think I am at a good point - I can only hope my PCBs will work! My view on designing something is that the more people may end up benefiting from it, the better I did. If somebody uses my design as a base to create a board of his own, or some company decides to grab my design and launch a production run, even if I have no monetary gain from it, I would be super proud. I doubt either will happen, though. 

Good luck with the project, with all they keyboards out there, there's still layouts that can be had

Thank you! My layout isn't particularily innovative (it is rare, but has been done before) - but I have focused on a few things that haven't been done in this combination as far as I am aware. Mostly designed it to be rather cheap and easy to manufacture, as well as highly modular (between a wired and a wireless version). But we'll see how that works out once the prototypes are here. Hope it'll work as intended.