I’ve gotten more requests from people at work that they want to build one of my keyboards. Even though I could order more PCBs for the LS65, I think it is time for an updated version. The LS65 hav...

Another silly feature of the side connector expansion port is connecting a small display. This could be somewhat useful to show current layer or configuration of the keyboard for example. I however...

Here is and interactive BOM for the new updated version. It’s pretty stacked with stuff now which required some pretty disgusting routing in some places but it should be fine now. One thing you ca...

More testing of the new prototype, this time the side connector. The main thing I will use the side connectors for is pointing devices. I’ve already talked about this briefly in an earlier post. C...

I might have been a bit too quick to reject the south-facing LEDs. I realized that in my experiments I didn’t mount the aluminum top plate, which of course covers the direct LED flares I was annoye...

In the last post I quickly mentioned the discussion whether to mount the LEDs south facing or north facing. Today after mounting a few more LEDs i think I will have to mount them north facing. The ...

The sk6812mini-e arrived today. I soldered one on to the PCB and flashed a new firmware. And it works! I’ll still have to connect more of them to figure out if power consumption will be a problem,...

After some thinking back and forth I decided to switch out the magnetic side connectors used by the LS65 for something else. The main reasons for this was: The magnetic connectors were kind of e...

I got my first prototype PCB of the new Lakemountain Keyboard left half from JLC PCB! Already before testing it I knew there would be some small issues with it because of me ordering before actual...

Next problem! Adding per-key sk6812 LEDs will amount to ~70 LEDs total combined over both halves. In the 65% configuration there is 31 on the left half and 42 on the right half. Additionally there...