Ergonomic, split and other weird keyboards
Posts must be of/about keyboards that have a clear delineation between the left and right halves of the keyboard, column stagger, or both. This includes one-handed (one half doesn't exist, what clearer delineation is that!?)
i.e. no regular non-split¹ row-stagger and no non-split¹ ortholinear²
¹ split meaning a separation of the halves, whether fixed in place or entirely separate, both are fine.
² ortholinear meaning keys layed out in a grid
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Hello,
I’m building my first keyboard (a dumbpad), and I have a basic question which should be easy to solve when you know how to do it.
I’ve choosen to socket the microcontroller (in case of error, bad choice…) but I have now a question for putting the screen above: what kind of header should I use ? Is there high profile header or should I stack multiples headers ?
What would you use for this ?
Wait, you socketed the controller and then put those sockets into more sockets?
I've soldered the female headers on the board:
The the male on the controler :
I see. So you have two sets of sockets: soldered ones (those on your controller) and hot-swappable ones (those on your board), and you've stacked them. It will probably work fine, but the usual approach is using only one of these.
Example for the hot-swappable ones:
Thanks ! I understand what I did wrong. I do not have the motivation to remove the header from the controller and put them in a proper way. I will keep it as is — as the result from my first attempt to solder my keyboard!
Now I have to find a way to stack three layer for the screen!
Just happy little accidents! :)