Build a budget travel keyboard with a cardboard
Channel: Khalidity
Date: 2023-01-09

#mechanicalkeyboard #diy #cardboard 

I have a chance to share how you can DIY a compact portable keyboard without breaking your pocket.
It's a 40 percent custom keyboard with Bluetooth capability and it is also very light, the kind of keyboard you will want to take with you for traveling.
Less expensive than the original Planck Keyboard and much better in my opinion. Everything you need to build this keyboard,

Checkout the whole episode here,
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJxO7S29464Ac1l8jm5nAkmd6wrgx1Ho8

- Contra PCB Ai03
- Nice!Nano or nRFMicro1.4
- Regular Switch
- single 2U Stab
- keycaps
- Diodes
- Female Pin Headers
- A4 cardboard
- Faux leather
- leather glue, epoxy glue, scissor, acrylic paintbrush


Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:47 Basic components
00:57 Choosing the PCB
01:10 Switches
01:21 The only stab you need
01:26 Choosing the MCU
01:47 Diodes for the switches
01:51 Solder the diodes first
02:03 Solder the pin headers
02:14 Create Socketable MCU
02:47 Add the battery
03:14 Hotswap socket with Rivets
03:18 Making case out of cardboard
03:54 Apply faux leather to the case
04:22 Screw placeholder
04:51 Add extra foams and wrap it up
05:10 Sound test

Mobile editing tools to create this video,

- Mobile VN Video Editor
- Any late 2020 Snapdragon Android Phone

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