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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kbd
Posts with mentions or reviews of kbd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-26.
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MRIYA
Yeah. Some models I found in the foostan's library. Also I used grabcad.com
- Making a custom PCB - do I have the wiring correct? Details in comments.
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Requesting a review of my PCB
I think regardless of the side, you won't be able to insert switches since it is covering the hole. if you have an option, i think there are a bunch of pre-configured mx switch footprints made available by foostan (check out their footprint repository for inspiration). They definitely do go on the back though, opposite of where the switches go.
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Gateway to more pain
The footprint for KiCad I used is from https://github.com/foostan/kbd/ called OLED_v2.
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Help with designing a reversible choc hotswappable PCB
I found these repositories pretty useful https://github.com/tzarc/reversible-kicad https://github.com/ebastler/marbastlib https://github.com/foostan/kbd https://github.com/keebio/Keebio-Parts.pretty and as u/ComBlockWither wrote: you can also use other peoples boards.
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KiCad 6 and messed up Ratsnest
Here is link number 1 - Previous text "kbd"
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hotswap footprint?
As /u/alinelena said, https://github.com/foostan/kbd/tree/master/kicad-footprints/kbd.pretty
bgkeeb
Posts with mentions or reviews of bgkeeb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-31.
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Recommendations for a 34 key split keyboard?
Baby Groot Keyboard ( https://github.com/sadekbaroudi/bgkeeb ) Fits in the cheap 100mm*100mm offers with most PCB manufacturers.
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Cheapino: the cheapest split?
technically, cheapest for several fab shops is if you can get PCB under 100mm × 100mm (ex. Cheapis and bgkeeb)
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Is this layout dumb?
as a comparison, bgkeeb is another 100×100mm board that manages to fit everything in using MX spacing
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What are the best designs to cheap out? E.g. Reviung34 only needs 1 controller.
https://github.com/sadekbaroudi/bgkeeb should be fairly cheap to produce. I ordered some from JLC and they cost about 4$. Plates came in at 6$ although you could probably just solder the switches without a plate.
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my new bgkeeb is great fun
There is a choc supported version, although I'm not sure it's choc spaced: https://github.com/sadekbaroudi/bgkeeb/releases/tag/v2.0-choc
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Bgkeeb keyboard build completed
This is my latest mechanical keyboard build project, called bgkeeb(baby groot keyboard), made by /u/sadekbaroudi .
- Help with designing a reversible choc hotswappable PCB
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Choc compatible bgkeeb
This is the bgkeeb
- bgkeeb - cheap (or free!) split pcb with a lot of features! see post comment for details
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kbd and bgkeeb you can also consider the following projects:
MX_Alps_Hybrid - KiCad Library of custom MX-Alps footprints
keyboard-labs - Repo with my PCB designs and keyboard firmware
mechanical-keyboard - DIY mechanical keyboard and where to find them
sweep36
Keebio-Parts.pretty - Various KiCAD footprints for mechanical keyboard parts
kotonoha_keyboards - awesome mechanical keyboard ( 30% )
Jian-Info - Jian keyboard info repository
qmk_firmware - Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
MRIYA - MRIYA is a 42-key column-staggered split keyboard based on the Corne Cherry v.3.0.1
reversible-kicad - Reversible footprints for KiCad
rbtray - A fork of RBTray from http://sourceforge.net/p/rbtray/code/.