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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 04:18:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   somebody really needs to make a keyboard-layout-editor.com-to-PCB service.

   like, even if you can't automate it! you should be able to upload a keyboard layout and pay 50$ or something and get back some PCB design files and a BOM

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 04:23:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     anything to shift power away from "mechanical keyboard bros" and towards "people who want to use keyboards"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 04:53:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Steven 🥖

     @steven yeah that's what I'm thinking. like, build most of a generic design, then just have some coding or simple human intervention to do the rest.

   • Steven 🥖 (steven@zeroes.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 04:53:59 JST Steven 🥖

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     @foone Legitimately, if there was a semi-standardized BOM for the microcontroller parts, it would be pretty trivial for amateurs to do the rest.

     In a "post your layout to Reddit and a weirdo will probably do it for you" sort of way.

   • 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...