Keyboard Project

I'm one of those people who never learned how to type with their whole hand. In order to encourage myself to type more efficiently and ergonomically, I decided to build a Dactyl Manuform split ergonomic keyboard!

Building this involved sourcing all of the parts (including the 3D-printed casing), handwiring each key switch in a grid pattern to corresponding pins on an Arduino Pro Micro (one microcontroller for each keyboard half), and compiling / flashing custom firmware onto each microcontroller using QMK, an open-source keyboard firmware suite.

This project took forever! Debugging embedded systems is no joke. But I loved creating an appealing gadget, and even more so teaching others how to build one themselves! (see CougarCS)