Hi, all.
I am a computer engineer working in industry for 15 years. Have been lurking off and on for a while.
I got interested in mechanical keyboards when a co-worker brought in a poker. I realized I do a lot of typing and that having a custom keyboard on the desktop at work would be kinda cool. I started out in keyboards playing with a teensy 2.0++ and some parts I bought from OLKB. Prototyped that up, bought some key caps, handwired it, played with some tmk_core and qmk_firmware. Was fun to make that work.
Respect for the people / community that produces the open source HW/SW that makes tinkering with this stuff possible. Thanks for this site.
As a challenge, I thought it might be fun to create my own custom keyboard, building on lessons from GH60. This might be blasphemy here, but being as I'm mainly interested in office keyboarding, and for a challenge, I thought it would be fun to try to make a bluetooth mech keyboard in the GH60 sytle with the goals of getting much better battery life by building a keyboard platform from the ground-up with that specific goal in mind. If you're interested in contributing, please join me on GitHub
https://github.com/40000ft/picoPOKER/. I'm calling it "picoPOKER" as a reference to the pico power features of AVR and targeting a 60% poker form factor. I'm new to GitHub and KiCAD, and am open to suggestions.
Thanks again, and HI.
Otto
