Clack

title: Clack Keyboard - Build Journal author: Praveen Kumar (@praveenkushinpi) description: A custom mechanical keyboard project: Clack.

created_at: 2025-06-14

Day 1 — Keyboard Layout Created

Today marks the first official entry for the Clack keyboard project!

Progress Update
I finalized the keyboard layout—the arrangement of keys, row staggering, and the overall form factor. I'm aiming for a compact yet comfortable 60% layout, but with a few tweaks for usability (like dedicated arrow keys and an extra macro column). 2 hrs

Day 2 - RightHand side keyboard schematic

8 hrs Today i selected the processor i want to use according to my needs and also started schematic with adding keys and two encoders and nrf25--- MDBT50Q-1MV2 and i also created custom symbol and also trying everything to be secure

Day 2 -

time 12:26

starting again full of motivation feel like g fuel is running in my viens and after 4 hours schemtic and i am not gonna leave my laptop and seat until i finish my keyboard let do this after so much searching and fondong for footprints of components and even making own but i get a huge problem of those components availablity in my country but still i am able to completely build it using pi pico and also did wiring and stuff

time 21:04

i think the wiring part would be easy but after knowing that i have to put each key one by one and also resistor and then wiring i hope i will do the basic 60% layout

Day 3 -

7 hrs after a many hours i finished my wiring of my keyboard and this is very hard for me tbh as a begineer

time 18:58

i never had a thought this is going to take this much time but finally things starts getting shape

time 21:14

finally i created the everything to create my own custom keyboard and i did created the casing for intially i am going to stack it up it looks alraight to me i hope this will work for others to but this what i want

21:34

here is the cost and stuff