Loving it so far. Moved from a Corne and the pinky stagger and especially the thumb cluster are so much more comfortable for me on this one.

Currently using Gateron Brown v3 switches and Cheap OEM profiles from Aliexpress

  • autoferrit@lemmy.world
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    does that only use one controller? ive thought about making a keeb and if i ever did i would use a cat5 cable. So cool

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    The Cheapino gets quite some love recently :D Saw a couple posts in the last weeks, really cool! I too built a Cheapino for myself and a friend who wanted to try out these ominous “ergo mech keyboards” 😁

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      Yeah its a great keyboard at a great price point. none of the frills that are essentially pointless to me, but does what it does very well.

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      The 8 wires of the RJ45 cable are all used, allowing to have only one MCU. Also, RJ45 cables and connectors are cheap and common.

      To manage all these keys with only 8 wires, a special “duplex matrix” is used.

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        and I guess you can unplug it without short cutting something like a TRRS does?

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          In theory yes. In practice, I never had problem hot plugging my trrs on my keyseebee board.

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    I ordered Piantor cause it seemed cheapest in my region (considering other sites have expensive shipping). Is there any site that provides this as a full diy set or did u order everything separately?

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      Yes, I ordered everything separately: I ordered the PCB from JLPCB and the other components from Aliexpress. I had switches and keycaps ordered previously from Aliexpress