THE VIDEO SHELF · custom keyboard pcb design
Design Your Own Keyboard!
Ben Vallack walks through designing a custom keyboard PCB from scratch using Ergogen and KiCad, ending with a gerber file ready to order from a PCB fabricator. The example is a split keyboard.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a thorough, general walkthrough of the steps in designing your own keyboard.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Ben Vallack
- Topic
- custom keyboard pcb design
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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> Build your own keyboard This is something I've been interested in lately as well & came across this video: [VIDEO] It's targeting a split keyboard, but I think it details the general steps involved pretty well.
quigley61 on Hacker News · 2022-07
In Build Your Own XIn the realm of programmable keyboards, it doesn’t really matter which OS you will use it with… My golden medium is Anne Pro II, even though I own new model F. But more and more I’m getting drawn to an idea of building 36 keys …
koziserek on Hacker News · 2022-08
In The obsessive pleasures of mechanical-keyboard tinkerersYou could go one step further and build your own keyboard to match your hands as well. I've watched several of these videos and planning on eventually building one: [VIDEO]
hyperturtle on Hacker News · 2023-02
In Making a Keyboard Layout
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