I am new to ergonomic and programmable keyboards, but something felt fun about making it as cheap as possible by doing 5 at once, and cheapinos at that. I spent quite a few hours on slimming down the cost and ended up spending roughly 35-40 bucks per board, switches and keycaps included. For this I have:

  • Magnetic USB-C cable
  • 360 rotatable RJ45 cable
  • Hotswap Cheapino V2 board that hopefully works
  • Spare PCB that can serve as bottom.
  • Of course it has rotary encoder as well.
  • ABT Green/Red Aliexpress sourced keycaps.
  • Either Gateron G Pro v3.0 Silver or Tecsee Purple Panda switches (very good budget switches based on reading)

For this, how much would you realistically ask for? Either max profit or your preferred cost.

  • Bondrewd@lemmy.worldOP
    42·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I knew the risks when I ordered it. :D I didnt really want to wait or reorder. But as I said, I also got the v1, I will have a use for the prototypes as cover if they dont work.

    Thanks for your work sir!

    • Tompi@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      1 year ago

      Okay, cool. Just be aware i changed the wiring, so old fw will not work out of the box…(rows are not shared between halves anymore, i hope this will fix some ghosting)

      Ill try to update the fw in the weekend at the latest…

      • Bondrewd@lemmy.worldOP
        42·
        1 year ago

        Thank you! Im sorry if that made you worried in any way, I just really wanted the extra functionality.

        • Merlin@lemm.ee
          2·
          7 months ago

          Sorry to revive this post. I just got into ergo keyboards and am curious what’s the new functionality on the v2 vs v1?