hwsteno

Time Spent: 30 minutes

I did some light research on layouts and steno keyboards. A lot of sources point towards Plover, which is also what QMK docs suggest, which means less work for me to do!
I then made a layout based on what I learnt, and printed a plate for that.
While the plate was printing, I modelled a case for it too.

KEYCAPS i need keycaps so I printed some and it took a few iterations but it finally fit the stem properly yippeee

I also made a render while my printer was doing printing stuff. An issue I had was that the plate only sat on the case and was loose? so I also printed a small accent border, and that also acted as a nice anchor for the plate to stick to the case!

And here’s the final result! I do think the ironing on the plate could’ve been better, but I’m proud of it regardless!

Time Spent: 2 hours

Soldering time I guess :p

Honestly, it’s not that hard with how few switches there are. I will say that these Gateron KS-33 switches have a really annoying pin placement, so I had to be extra careful with my soldering this time. I decided to go for a COL2ROW layout, only because that is the orientation I soldered the first diode in. After that, I connected everything to a pico and boxed it all in! I just needed keycaps now and I should be good to go :)

I didn’t really take pictures during the process but here is the end result!