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!
Ariane Nazemi is an electrical engineering student located in San Diego and the founder of Atom Computer. He loves designing and building electronics, and has created several products at Atom including an RGB LED programmable bow tie that was designed to help new electrical engineers, makers, and programmers get familiar with through-hole and SMD soldering and programming in a fun setting. Ariane has been an avid enthusiast of electronics and robotics from a young age.