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Mechanical keyboard

 A little while back I built a mechanical keyboard ( 3D printed Redox mechanical keyboard ) with a Pi pico and programmed it with KMK ( Setting up KMK on a Pi Pico mechanical keyboard ). I'm going to start adding extra information here that I missed from the videos, the first thing is a bit of a wiring schematic: Rows schematic At about 3:44 in the build video I start wiring the rows, the above is a schematic of what I was doing. Each key has a diode to allow multiple keys to be pressed. As the legs were long I could use my diodes  as the connectors. Column schematic The wires for the left half were thread through some para-cord and taken to the right half, the rows were joined as if it were a single piece keyboard - this is not the best way to do things but was very practical for a first go :) The end result is 5 rows and 14 columns each with the same number of keys. I used different colour wire to help with trouble shooting and connected rows and columns to different sides of th

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