Keyboard Builder's Digest

dovenyi

24 Jan 2022, 15:28

Issue #62 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available:
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dovenyi

31 Jan 2022, 14:58

Issue #63 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is out:
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dovenyi

07 Feb 2022, 15:25

Issue #64 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is out:
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dovenyi

14 Feb 2022, 14:57

Issue #65 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is out:
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dovenyi

21 Feb 2022, 15:17

Issue #66 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available:
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dovenyi

28 Feb 2022, 15:18

How did this blurry rubberdomes get to the cover? History is being written one hour's drive away from my home so my priorities have changed this week. Regardless, here are some projects I thought would be worth sharing.

Issue #67 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available at:
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Muirium
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28 Feb 2022, 15:20

Worst. Cover. Ever. :lol:

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Bjerrk

28 Feb 2022, 15:47

I don't know about that. The connotations are strong in this one. :cry:

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Muirium
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28 Feb 2022, 16:00

Oh! :O Context, aye. :shock:

Still the worst cover ever, but for a profoundly bigger, deeper, and truer meaning of worst.

dovenyi

07 Mar 2022, 15:40

Just to make it clear, I live little more than an hour's drive away from the Ukrainian border where Russian war criminals keep killing civilians. (I mean, not on the border but in Ukraine in general.) Consider supporting one of the well-known charities in the region. Here are my suggestions. Money landing on my PP account will be transferred to them too, just like last week.

Btw, I was at the border this weekend and charities, local municipalities and civilians do a pretty great job. This page is powerful too.

Issue #68 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available at:
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dovenyi

14 Mar 2022, 17:16

Issue #69 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available at:
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dovenyi

21 Mar 2022, 15:06

Issue #70 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available at:
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dovenyi

28 Mar 2022, 15:13

Issue #71 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available at:
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dovenyi

04 Apr 2022, 15:44

And here is Issue #72 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly selection of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas:
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dovenyi

11 Apr 2022, 15:10

And here is Issue #73 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly roundup of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas:
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dovenyi

18 Apr 2022, 14:57

And here is Issue #74 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly roundup of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas -- this time with some original longer format articles about e.g. the PRK firmware or the LDSA keycap profile:
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dovenyi

25 Apr 2022, 15:59

Issue #75 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly roundup of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available:
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Hey, did you know you can handle 200-300 switches with a simple Pro Micro? I cover the 200-switch solution in my write-up titled The Japanese duplex matrix

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Muirium
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25 Apr 2022, 18:30

Oh! That's actually rather neat. Kinda makes me want to try a Nice!nano all the more now. Only drawback is the matrix itself has to be designed with this shared column / alternating diodes in mind, so no using stock PCBs.

Speaking of PCBs: got an example of one to share? Your diagrams understandably deal with the trivial 3 × 2 case, but a visual of what a 60% or greater really looks like with this arrangement would be illuminating.

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jsheradin

25 Apr 2022, 19:36

Is the Japanese duplex matrix truly NKRO?
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In 3.3V application it's probably not an issue though. A generic 1N4148 diode has a forward voltage drop of around 1V so I guess by the time the signal makes its way through 3 diodes it's low enough that the GPIO registers it as off.

With the mega 32u4 and 1286 on their way out this definitely makes the little nRF chips a lot more appealing.

Also neat that there's a name for the overlapping rows; I thought I came up with something for once :/
Spoiler:
jsheradin wrote:
07 Dec 2020, 01:26
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dovenyi

25 Apr 2022, 20:55

Muirium wrote:
25 Apr 2022, 18:30
Speaking of PCBs: got an example of one to share?
I was fascinated by the theory but haven't tried it yet.
As I can see, this matrix style was picked up in Japan late 2018, early 2019, and many projects from that time have disappeared from the net.
On the other hand, members of the Japanese community tend to keep their PCBs closed-source in general.
So e.g. the Angel64, which I guess uses this matrix, has only a build log: https://kakunpc.github.io/buildguides/angel64/
I'm not sure this helps.

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Muirium
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25 Apr 2022, 21:07

Diagonals to dizzy the mind! Well, mine at least. It’s pretty busy as you’d expect.

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Can’t say I can follow it (without pulling out the tracing tools, which I shan’t for once).

Jsheradin’s point about ghosting is noteworthy, however:

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Looks to be 2KRO. That third key triggers a phantom fourth.

dovenyi

02 May 2022, 15:27

Issue #76 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly roundup of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available:
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Follow-up to my Japanese duplex from last week: I'll have to update that post with some explanation why and when the voltage drop across three diodes may take care for ghosting.

On a similar note, did you know you can actually handle 380 switches with a simple Pro Micro? :D This time I cover a new arrangement with ghosting in the focus: Square or round-robin matrix.

dovenyi

02 May 2022, 15:32

Muirium wrote:
25 Apr 2022, 21:07
Looks to be 2KRO. That third key triggers a phantom fourth.
I'll have to update that post with an explanation.
By carefully choosing diodes (voltage drop matters a lot!) this should work with both RP2040 and ATmega32u4 without ghosting.
Or if you have tons of 1N4148s at home you can use two of those for each switch with the atmega.

dovenyi

09 May 2022, 15:31

Issue #77 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly roundup of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available:
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With an improved square matrix: up to 380 keys with a Pro Micro -- with less diodes.

dovenyi

16 May 2022, 14:54

Issue #78 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly roundup of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is available:
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dovenyi

23 May 2022, 14:31

Issue #78 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly roundup of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is out:
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dovenyi

30 May 2022, 15:47

Issue #80 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly roundup of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is out:
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Crizender

30 May 2022, 16:40

Man, that FLS is awesome looking!

dovenyi

06 Jun 2022, 14:56

Issue #81 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly roundup of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is out:
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dovenyi

13 Jun 2022, 15:19

Issue #82 of Keyboard Builders' Digest, my weekly roundup of DIY keyboard projects, tips and ideas is out:
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