scottokeebs VS keyboards

Take a look at https://scottokeebs.com, he has a lot of open source designs that involve hand-soldering so no PCB required. Just 3d print a case top and bottom, add switches, diodes, wire, ucontroller, cheap blank keycaps, and some soldering work. With bulk purchases it might be below the €30 threshold (filament might push you over budget?)

I teased this build months ago and finally am getting ready to build it, I’m calling it the “ScottoWing”. It will have both 3x5 and 3x6 layouts as an option along with various different styles for the plates. All files will be available for free once I upload the build video on my YouTube channel.

Anyway, when I share my boards, I like to share a few things: 1. I make videos on these boards along with tons of things related to them such as QMK, handwiring, PCBs, etc. 2. All the handwired boards I design are released completely for free. 3. You can keep up to date on the project or support me at scottokeebs.com.

All my handwired boards are released open-sourced and for free but if you don't have a 3D printer, you can support the project by buying a case from my shop. I like to think that my cases are priced pretty competitively with print-on-demand services and I make sure they are printed with the proper tolerances before shipping.

I have this KLE JSON that I made for a split board, it renders as the following on KLE:

I'm pretty hyped this is finally built. Following /u/JoeScotto's instructions at https://github.com/joe-scotto/scottokeebs/tree/main/ScottoFly and https://www.youtube.com/@joe_scotto made it way easier! I highly recommend checking his resources out for build and handwiring instructions.

All of my boards in my ScottoKeebs project avoid homerow mods. I put mods on the thumb cluster, shift on Z and ?, and various tap dance functions to get full functionality.

It actually has all the keys of a regular keyboard: https://github.com/joe-scotto/scottokeebs/blob/main/ScottoFrog/Firmware/single-handed.jpg

Anyway, as usual when I share my boards, I like to share a few things: 1. I make videos on these boards and have one planned for this one eventually. 2. All the boards I design are released completely for free. 3. You can keep up to date on the project at scottokeebs.com

I have custom alpha layers and extremely optimized symbol layers, combos and other features in my keymap. It is not designed for web development, but it is good for VIM and Java.

That made me think. If I would adapt Romak for 20 keys, it would be something like this:

But since you are a programmer, I invite you to check the fancy programmer features that I have implemented in my keymap. I still need to rework on the documentation, but you can take some inspiration from there if you decide to design your own.

Romak also has some very nice attributes, as do poqtea and uciea. I also find Canary to have a lot of merit.

There is also the unusual option to handwire a keyboard without soldering, as I did here, but the result might not be so reliable.

You can see my layout here.

I started my own layout, Romak, using BEAKL as inspiration, with similar objectives, mostly making it more suitable for my home language and reducing the load on pinkies and indexes, concentrating in the middle and ring fingers instead. Another thing I did was to remove the top row key from both the central and pinkie columns. Later I also removed the bottom row key from the pinkies.

My first handwired board checks all your requirements, and I have some pictures of the process, but it is not a complete guide. It might help though. And I think the FFKB case can be great for a first handwired project.

Really nice work, congrats. My custom layout is designed for both Portuguese and English, and I have some of the same ideas implemented, with similar reasoning. I also have some programming features that remind yours, but I preferred to remap hjkl instead.

I've used two different options in my builds. You can see them in the build logs: FFKB and Rommana.