Building a keyboard from scratch

“Like many hackers, I tend to type a lot. And I'm somewhat picky about my keyboards. Early last year, I started reading about the (incredibly sad) state of the art in ergonomic keyboards. Despite the fact that I'd never held a soldering iron, I somehow got it into my head that I should be able to make my own keyboard. ”

Jesse Vincent's OSCON 2013 talk walking through everything needed to design and build your own ergonomic keyboard from scratch — open-source firmware, microcontrollers, plate and shell design, soldering, debugging, and every mistake he made building his first few keyboards. Posted by Keyboardio when Jesse was already nine months into the build.