keyboard-labs VS for-science-keyboard

- Here's a build guide https://github.com/rgoulter/keyboard-labs/blob/master/docs/buildguide_rev2021.4_budget.md / video log https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKnluxdRtA

Ah, it's a custom PCB design https://github.com/rgoulter/keyboard-labs/ and the design takes a clear inspiration from the Lumberjack PCB https://github.com/peej/lumberjack-keyboard

Keyboard. Keycaps are MDA profile from Melgeek. Keyboard PCB is custom PCB. https://github.com/rgoulter/keyboard-labs Devboard is a WeAct Studio MiniF4 "Blackpill", which runs Arm (so allows e.g. firmware with Rust, or KMK, or more bells/whistles from QMK).

Hi, I'm planning on building a mechanical keyboard and found this SN74LVC1T45DBV in the schematic which is used to convert a 3.3v signal to 5v so that the RGB LEDs receive data reliably, as per component shortage those are hard to find and quite expensive since I just need two and it doesn't seem that critical to me (low current and common voltage from 3.3 to 5) but I don't know how to look for an alternative do you have any suggestion on how to look for one other than footprint (sot-23-6in this case) as I don't really understand enough on this datasheet to find one myself and this is the last part to find before ordering the electronics. If that matters I'm buying most of the electronics from china (to avoid 20€ shipping from mouser and similar for just basic components) and mechanics from another site. I think it's on-topic but if it's not feel free to remove the post

Gerbers and lasercutting assets can be found at: https://github.com/rgoulter/keyboard-labs/releases/tag/x2-rev2021.1 (with sources to generate these made available in the main repo).

Ah, I hope it's not too rude of me to say I'd had a go at designing a keyboard to a similar spec. https://github.com/rgoulter/keyboard-labs/releases/

I recently made a low-budget build, + wrote a build guide here: https://github.com/rgoulter/keyboard-labs/blob/master/docs/buildguide_rev2021.4_budget.md There are a number of sub-100x100mm PCBs which would be similarly cheap. Not quite as cheap as hand-wired, but much less effort required.

https://github.com/rgoulter/keyboard-labs/ I have a design which is also smaller than 100x100, but use a more powerful dev board than the pro micro.

/u/phbonachi I recently build my first split keyboard (a 3d printend version of the for_science board). I am currently 'hunting' for a layout and have first looked hard at Miryoku, then at another layout called PUQ and now at hands down.

I was wondering what the workflow would be to convert from Gerber files into other formats. My use case is that I want to build a handwire prototype of a split keyboard but there are only gerber files available (I'm looking at the For Science).

I'm aware of other keyboards smaller than 100x100. https://github.com/peej/for-science-keyboard or https://github.com/MasayukiFukada/kotonoha_keyboards (and others). ... ;) I like the allure of "you can save a few dollars on PCB fabrication". -- Most of these small boards don't opt to go for the fancy per-key RGBs.

https://github.com/peej/for-split-keyboard and https://github.com/peej/for-science-keyboard (from the same designer: related to "ortho in a 60% case", but not as budget friendly: https://github.com/peej/lumberjack-keyboard). If you can tolerate just switches + PCB, something like https://oddrocketkeyboards.blogspot.com/2018/05/5plit-v1.html would be quite cheap.