First Ever Hand-Wired Build (Cmd Dactyl 5x7)

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  • void16

    A 4x4 handwired macropad, running QMK firmware

  • The first was the void16 that I found on thingiverse and used as a testbed before diving head first into building a dactyl. https://github.com/victorlucachi/void16 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4209505

  • CMD-dactyl-manuform

  • For the dactyl I used Mark's fork and followed his excellent guide for the Cmd. [CMD-dactyl-manuform:github] https://github.com/markdhooper/CMD-dactyl-manuform [CMD Guide] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxNKWNKBLMs&t=908s

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  • KeyV2

    KeyV2: A Parametric Mechanical Keycap Library

  • For both project's I used the KeyV2 parametric keycap library with openscad to generate the keycap stl's. I really recommend really looking through the documentation and example files as this is a really powerful tool for generating keycaps. [KeyV2 github] https://github.com/rsheldiii/KeyV2

  • dactyl-manuform

  • The original dactyl manuform GitHub page has some pictures illustrating how to wire the matrix https://github.com/abstracthat/dactyl-manuform

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