I know this is 4 years after the fact, but thank you so much for posting an unedited video of hand wiring one these. It’s really given me the confidence to try this for myself.
Humans are good at repeating what they observe, that's how our ancestors learned, but a really powerful skill would be to not be mystified by the manual or written instructions.
Hello Kevin, sorry for bothering you, I'm a complete noob in building keyboards, but I have an early question: is it possible to add more keys to dactyl-style keyboards? Cyrillic layouts need a couple of extra keys; I was able to add four into Kinesis Advantage, but now feeling an itch to make a Dactyl CC maybe. Can a person with a soldering iron and a 3d-printer, but not a programmer, handle adding keys?
You may be able to find firmware that was already created for a dactyl with an extra column or row. That would give you a firmware that matches the extra keys you need, without doing any extra programming.
There should only be two actual metal pins. The rest are plastic and used for stabilizing on a PCB. You may want to cut the two small plastic ones off the switches to make things easier to solder.
I know this is 4 years after the fact, but thank you so much for posting an unedited video of hand wiring one these. It’s really given me the confidence to try this for myself.
Very glad to have helped. :)
Since this is my first hands on electronics project, you have demystified it alot. I'm just waiting on my other half to finish printing now
Humans are good at repeating what they observe, that's how our ancestors learned, but a really powerful skill would be to not be mystified by the manual or written instructions.
That diode jig is really handy!
Hello Kevin, sorry for bothering you, I'm a complete noob in building keyboards, but I have an early question: is it possible to add more keys to dactyl-style keyboards? Cyrillic layouts need a couple of extra keys; I was able to add four into Kinesis Advantage, but now feeling an itch to make a Dactyl CC maybe.
Can a person with a soldering iron and a 3d-printer, but not a programmer, handle adding keys?
You may be able to find firmware that was already created for a dactyl with an extra column or row. That would give you a firmware that matches the extra keys you need, without doing any extra programming.
@@Eckavolts A-ha, so to add buttons I still need some manipulation with programming or firmware. Alas for me, alas! Thank you very much!
When you realized you forgot the capton tape was like a continuity meter
Do Dactyl has antighosting for all keys?
Meaning the diodes? Yes.
Some switches have 5 pins, does it matter which pin I solder?
There should only be two actual metal pins. The rest are plastic and used for stabilizing on a PCB. You may want to cut the two small plastic ones off the switches to make things easier to solder.
selling these keyboards?
Yes. Send me a message on reddit - u/hellmoneywarriors
whens part 3? :)
Very soon!
I like the diode jig! But honestly the whole wiring is quite messy. I would rather use wires.
it's actually not that hard to make a bottom file for that 5x7