DIY wireless ortholinear keyboard
Italian EE student.
I recently started my journey to learn electronics and by watching tonnes of video on youtube I came up to pcbway to try my very first serious project. This is my first time using kicad and I really hope I didn't messed something up, with this assumption here is my project.
A 58 key ortholinear keyboard, I chose to eliminate 2 keys in order to enlarge the spacebar and the enter keys. I did build the same keyboard handwiring it but the plate being 3d printed in petg caused some wobbling while typing and it wasn't very user friendly especially for a rookie like me (eg. couldn't find the spacebar while typing causing so so many errors), so I decided to make a step forward to build a keyboard that's repair friendly and hot-swappable in order to last very long (hopefully). I plan to use ZMK software for the nice nano v2 for using it wireless so I added a SPDT switch for the battery. The aim is portability so I tried to use only the footprint of the switches for the dimensions of the pcb and low profile switches. Using it wired would be even lower profile but it needs a back cover for the MCU in order to not shorting pins.
The logo on the back is what I plan on doing when i would hopefully become more skillfull and start a youtube channel with the name ClostriDIYum. Hope this would not be our last encounter.
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