Design Your Own Keyboard!

Ben Vallack
4 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2022–2023
YouTube
140K views · 4 years ago · tutorial · intermediate · evergreen

Ben Vallack walks through designing your own custom keyboard, including laying it out, wiring it and designing its PCB. It targets a split keyboard but covers the general steps.

HN people recommend it as a clear walkthrough of building a keyboard shaped to your own hands, from a creator they find underrated.

“I think it details the general steps involved pretty well.”
Input devices & novel interfacesPrototyping
#customkeyboard#splitkeyboard#pcbdesign#ergonomics#diyhardware

4 comments from Hacker News

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@hyperturtle2023 · in “Making a keyboard layout”
You could go one step further and build your own keyboard to match your hands as well. I've watched several of these videos and planning on eventually building one: ▶ this video
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@koziserek2022 · in “The obsessive pleasures of mechanical-keyboard tinkerers”
In the realm of programmable keyboards, it doesn’t really matter which OS you will use it with… My golden medium is Anne Pro II, even though I own new model F. But more and more I’m getting drawn to an idea of building 36 keys custom. Watch something from a channel of this hugely underrated gent: ▶ this video Edit: typos (ipad screen kbd…)
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@quigley612022 · in “Build Your Own X”
> Build your own keyboard This is something I've been interested in lately as well & came across this video: ▶ this video It's targeting a split keyboard, but I think it details the general steps involved pretty well.
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@chaychoong2022 · in “Custom Keyboard PCB Design Walkthrough [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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