Building my first keyboardI recently became hooked on mechs and started my endeavour with a cherry g80-3000
and blue switches. I then wanted to buy one of those KBC Poker II everyone is
talking about. Found out that mechanicalkeyboards.com doesn't have them in stock
anymore... Bummer.
Because I really wanted to have a 60% keyboard I decided to try building my own.
The planned specs are as follows:
- Blue Switches
- 60% Size
- Plate mounted
- No PCB / handwired
- NKRO
- Custom firmware on a Teensie USB Board
When time / joy permits I'd like to add:
- rgb leds
- different keyboard layouts which can be easily switched
Getting startedI already ordered some of the parts I might need:
- 100 Cherry MX Blue
- 100 1N4148 Diodes
- 5 Stabs (not sure whether those are the right ones)
- Some flat cable
- 3 Euro sized Perfboards / Breadboards
- Teensy 2.0
Here are some pics of the parts:
Everything I have at the moment
Are those the right stabilizers?
The next step will be to get some 'legs' for the teensy board, hook this up to a
protoboard and do some software prototyping (hopefully I will see some chars on
my screen
).
I'll try to build the whole thing as inexpensive as possible, focusing on producing
a working keyboard. Looks and the likes come after that.
By the way: Got myself a Poker II anyways, I don't have it yet though.