createkarmaMade me a Cheapino!
does that only use one controller? ive thought about making a keeb and if i ever did i would use a cat5 cable. So cool
obosobYeah, it does
bastrahThe Cheapino gets quite some love recently :D Saw a couple posts in the last weeks, really cool! I too built a Cheapino for myself and a friend who wanted to try out these ominous "ergo mech keyboards" 😁
Yeah its a great keyboard at a great price point. none of the frills that are essentially pointless to me, but does what it does very well.
Is there a reason behind using an RJ45 instead of a 3 or 4 wire audio cable?
TeXitoiThe 8 wires of the RJ45 cable are all used, allowing to have only one MCU. Also, RJ45 cables and connectors are cheap and common.
To manage all these keys with only 8 wires, a special “duplex matrix” is used.
choasand I guess you can unplug it without short cutting something like a TRRS does?
In theory yes. In practice, I never had problem hot plugging my trrs on my keyseebee board.