There’s an entire subculture of people out there dedicated to pushing the humble mechanical keyboard to its limits. With everything from custom keycaps, to switch mods, to full-blown ground-up creations and everything in between! In this talk, I’ll go through my journey to build a custom, split, ergonomic, staggered-columnar, RGB backlit mechanical keyboard (mouthful!) from scratch. I’ll go over how I picked my layout, chose my switches, designed the boards, programmed the firmware and more!