Mechanical Keyboards

10484 readers

45 users here now

Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
If so, this community is for you!

Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

Banner by Jay Zhang on Unsplash

founded 5 years ago

Ergo Mech Keyboard guide recommendations? (self.mechanicalkeyboards)

submitted 2 months ago by SchwertImStein to c/[email protected]

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hi there, I'm a first time wannabe builder. Are there any guides that you can recommend I follow?

top 8 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You can also ask/crosspost on [email protected]

Despite the platform, /r/ergomechkeyboards still is a decent place and have lots of info on getting started

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you looking to build a keyboard from a kit, or design one from scratch?

SplitKB.com has forked a few popular open source keyboard designs like the Corne or the Sofle. Even if you don't end up purchasing their kits, they have some excellent build guides and documentation. If you're a keyboard or DIY electronics beginner, it's a good way of seeing what sort of techniques and tools you'd be in for when soldering things like microcontrollers, switches, and diodes. https://docs.splitkb.com/product-guides/aurora-series/build-guide

If you're interested in designing a keyboard, I'd recommend looking into the keyboard layout editor Egogen. https://github.com/ergogen/ergogen

[–] SchwertImStein 1 points 2 months ago

I'm totally a beginner, thank you for this comment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bought mine from holykeebs they have good build guides for all of them

[–] SchwertImStein 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought they were american and wanted to write that I'm not willing to give this country business,but it turns out they are israeli, so ☠️ ☠️ ☠️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh no

Well, the guides are available for free 😭

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let’s play which fascist government to avoid harder! Spin the wheel, SchwertImStein!

[–] SchwertImStein 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

well, most EU countries would be cool for now