Hey, thanks for the warm welcomes guys.
And CPTBadAss, you're now officially my Yoda, listing all of those projects were just what I needed, half of the projects you listed I haven't seen yet. (The Coreboard is especially interesting)
So far I'm at the point of where I understand how all the switches work, wiring and soldering is no problem, I have a layout, switches, and ergonomics already planned out. However I am now completely lost at the part of how you translate a switch signal from a simple opening and closing of a circuit into an understandable and interpret-able signal for the computer. And even then I still haven't figured out how to deal with signal bouncing, polling, and possible ghosting (Which putting a diode in the line per key supposedly fixes). I'm being Directed at the Teensy, however I am afraid that it won't work quite as exactly as I have planned as my board has more keys due to the shift punctuation and symbols being given their own individual keys.
I am also considering the easy route and pulling apart my Black Widow Ultimate or buying a spare gaming keyboard from craigslist and using its software suite and chipset to power the board, but that kind of feels like cheating and the easy way to go about making a custom keyboard.
