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Just built my first keyboard. First Ergo too! Cheapino
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I'm in Australia so this will be in AUD with Australian shipping.
I got the PCB's from JLPCB for $23.85
The keycaps diodes microcrontroller switches etc came to $50.17 total. I just used the ones linked in the github, as well as probably knockoff holy pandas and a knockoff soya milk set? They were both super cheap hahah.
So that's $73.22 AUD total, so a bit less than $50 USD!
https://github.com/tompi/cheapino
I've done some soldering in the past but never built a keyboard or anything like this. I was quite nervous but it was quite easy! Hardest part was making sure the switches were straight, but following the build guides tips I managed to do that pretty well (better on the right half then the left half I tried first hahaha.) Highly recommend this keyboard and project.
Really happy with the end result, I plan on building a Charybdis nano or Flow36 in the future to replace my trackball mouse but this is a great first step.
Wow, that's way less expensive then I thought! Seems like a fun project as well!
Thank you so much for all the info. This project is really compelling to me, so I might end up building something similar :)
Yeah crazy cheap, if you’re in Australia I’ve got 3 spare pcbs (JLPCB has a minimum order of 5) I’d be happy to send them to you with my spare rotary encoder and diodes