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A 3D-printed, handwired build

Jibril-sama built his own 3D-printed, handwired keyboard with exposed diode array.

KBD.news
Published October 22, 2021

We don't see resin printed keyboards very often, nor handwired ones with nicely grouped exposed diodes.

This photolog demonstrates why. :D

As masochistic as this may look, handwired projects are still great for prototyping and they deserve to be regularly featured here on KBD.news.

[…]the worst part is not soldering the diodes themselves. It's because I have to use enameled wires to be able to cram everything under there. The worst part was soldering those wires to the switch legs. I swear those wires are solderphobic. It just won't stick to the wire. And because it's hard to see if you actually burned through the coating or not, I had to check the connection with multimeter after every wire.
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Published on Fri 22nd Oct 2021. Featured in KBD #49 (source).


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