about a year ago i wrote a ZMK setup for a fully custom keyboard with an optical sensor, and it took me about 2 months to get it right.
today i needed to do the same for another similar keyboard, and i have LLMed the fuck out of it in two hours with claude code. fucker even digested my kicad files to get pinouts right
Bought a new project yesterday. It’s a bit beaten up and tired and the sound engine is garbage, but it has a keyboard designed by actual bechstein piano engineers with full grand piano size key sticks and rather convincing action
So I’m going to service the keyboard and then rip out its brains and audio system and build something better from scratch
Probably repaint it too in the process into something more obnoxious
Both sides are wired now. I’ll cut and fit the gasket mount next, and it’s all about firmware after that
A keen observer might notice that there’s only one pair of keyboards and tl;td is that wiring this version was a miserable experience and I don’t want to release it like that. I’ll verify that the electronics work and then redesign the wiring to a FPC #keyboard #keyboards #electronics
