View of the inside of a 3d printed mechanical keyboard. A small circuit board is at each key position. Ribbon cables branch out and a different wire runs along each row of keys, and each column.

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1. abrasive (abrasive@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:09:32 JST abrasive

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   @foone this was my take on a keyboard prototyping rig - I made wee boards with a diode, a hotswap socket, and two IDC terminals on each. Print the shell, snap the keys in the front, stick the boards on the back, then punch down row and column wires to the boards. Cheaper/faster to iterate than PCBs, and open to 3d designs, but I didn't have the official punchdown tool and it'd throw a wire every now and then...