I fell into the rabbit gap of constructing customized mechanical keyboards after attending a tremendous workshop to construct an open-source Reviung 34 equipment on the Wuthering Bytes Know-how Pageant. DIY mechanical keyboard constructing is a wealthy subculture of tasks with many fascinating sizes and styles of keyboards. One slight problem is that, for one thing close to a full-size keyboard, getting a single PCB or PCB set to construct it may be prohibitively costly so it’s nice to see folks manufacturing batches and promoting PCBs out for folks to construct. The Kailh Choc Low Profile Ortholinear Keyboard PCB is strictly that. A clean PCB so that you can construct a keyboard round.

The keyboard is ortholinear, which, as you possibly can see from the instance images of constructed tasks, locations all of the keys in vertical and horizontal rows and columns with no offset. Hyperlinks are offered over on the product web page for Kailh low-profile key switches and keycaps. Aside from that the one different part you’ll want is a Raspberry Pi Pico.

The PCB design is pretty easy. Many DIY keyboard builds use diodes to construct the matrix. This stops “ghost” key presses the place the matrix will get confused by a number of keys being pressed. This doesn’t have that characteristic, which could put some folks off. Nevertheless, omitting the diodes additionally reduces the quantity of soldering a venture like this requires. The Raspberry Pi Pico is flashed with Kermite which is configurable by an online app so you possibly can arrange and tinker with customized keyboard mapping to your coronary heart’s want!