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after accumulating parts slowly over a couple of years, i finally finished building my own keyboard.
it was my first big soldering project, and i made a few serious mistakes that i cannot undo. but it works and it's comfortable.
the most fun part, honestly, was making the usb and trrrs cables.
things i messed up on while building the keyboard
1. i had to de-solder the usb connector because i didn't do a good job the first time. i destroyed the contacts and ended up having to perma plug in the cable to the microcontroller (instead of having a removable cable.
2. the trrrs connectors were too big for the acrylic case holes. so i had to sand off the edges of them.
things i messed up on while building the keyboard
3. the acrylic case had the layer names laser-cut into them. i.e. L2 - LEFT HAND. this was not attractive to me so i painted the underside of the first layer, so that it would hide the layer names from the user.
for those interested, this is an ergodox. the parts list and build instructions are available at ergodox.io
i ordered the diy cable kits from zapcables.com
and i got the multi-layer acrylic case cut from ponoko.com. i won't link to the github repo i got the case design from because... it didn't quite work out for me, and caused me a couple of problems.
