As an ECE graduate and planning to create my own mechanical keyboard by 3d Printing plastic bottle filaments for my recycled themed MKB, this is what I'm following for my PCB except, I did designed mine from scratch using copper clad. You should be proud of yourself for this.
Anybody who knows anything about coding, electrical components (SMD soldering) and keyboards understands this is baller af... My only experience is soldering JST connectors on faulty USB C daughterboards and coding a bunch of elementary Java programs but I do own more than 30 keyboards. I've built a few of them and also made custom Poron sheets of different thickness using my laser cutter for those I made and some factory made. THIS is next level though.
That's true. But I think my focus on the project as a whole was more about hand's on engineering rather than making something 100% from scratch, so it didn't make sense to spend some money making dozens of identical pieces from a mold I didn't design
This single video was more entertaining for me than any other videos I have watched in the past week ? Month ? Or maybe an year ? idk Awesome content ! 🗿
hey kevin hyd?? so, for you to flash your firmware to your custom pcb, did you flash it from your usbc port?? or you use a custom pins to flash it onto the pcb??
question what did you connect your Molex connection to i can't find anywhere telling me where it needs to be connected to on the chip my chip is the ATmega32U4-A
Hold down the reset button on the pcb then plug in the pcb. It should wipe the firmware and the pcb should show up on qmk toolbox again, then you can reflash.
You make fun of the past but at the same time use ancient atmega and qmk. Use new rp2040 and kmk. Rp2040 is widely available, costs just $2 and is more powerful. Kmk is much easier to set up and customize.
God why are people using ATMega so commonly on these boards tho? there's stm32f0+ and esp32 chips for so cheap! I'd got with an nerf chip for wireless and stm32f0 for the main cheap. They can be so power efficient
@@koovin02 oh sorry I hope that comment wasn't rude, reading it again my tone seems rude, I really wanna make a wireless keyboard with an efficient m0 chip
But brother you didn't link any links to your hardwork in the description to be utilized by us morons expecting to escape the hell you went through ? 🥺
If you absolutely have to, here: github.com/FarlandDuck/horsie-65 Just remember there are better examples online and mine might be scuffed. Also the repo is messy since it was mainly for personal use
@@hackrmomo If you must: github.com/FarlandDuck/horsie-65 please don't use it as a template, there are better keyboard pcb templates out there i assure you i had no idea what i was doing, also it's kind of a mess. I recommend consulting the keyboard atelier discord server for help if you need it
I understand that everyone nowadays is trying to be funny, but it should not be at the expense of sharing useful information in a truly informative manner. Could not watch the video to the end.
