meimei

Made by @luteron6

Total hours so far: 5

Estimated Cost: $150

I don't have a (regular) mechanical keyboard, and so I thought I'd build one for Hack Club's #highway YSWS. Ok I've been thinking about this for a while, and here's what I want (some goals): * 80%. I don't use all those extra keys, so 80% is great. I'm going to copy my existing laptop layout (kind of). * A rotary encoder for volume control. * Bluetooth with a battery * USB-C * Clicky keys :)

** Day 1 - 6/20/2025 - 7:55 AM (5 Hours) From my research, Cherry Blues are the typical 'clicky' switches. So I'll go with those. For the keycaps, I found these.

I also found that the nice!nano microcontroller is the typical bluetooth microcontroller used on keyboards. Apparently it's best on ZMK, so I'll have to learn that to make the firmware (I only know QMK). The docs also suggest socketing the nice!nano, so I'll try that. I found these sockets and pins: here.

Here's the start of my BOM: * Cherry Blue MX Keyswitches: $32.99 * Keycaps: $25.99 * nice!nano WOW! That's expensive: $24.99 * Sockets/Pins: $8.00 * 1N4148 Diodes: $5.99

Here's the layout I want to go with:

I drew out my electrical matrix:

Then I created my schematic:

Phew! It's done. My PCB, that is:

I'm going to start on my case after I add this repo to the submissions.yml file. But I'm going to close this journal log now, it's been a while.