"Build your own Keyboard" Project

Overview

This project started in early 2023 with the goal of making my own custom mechanical keyboard. I raised the idea and our UWA Robotics Club (URC) committee meeting, and the idea was greenlit with the idea of turning the keyboard into a kit which we could sell to our members and local community and run a "how to build" workshop.

From the beginning, I worked with my new friend Prashan to develop the concept. Prashan approached the project as a fanatic of custom keyboards, and also an experienced electronics and CAD designer.

We worked together on the project off and on, for around 18 months creating around 3-4 rounds of prototypes, we then reluctantly had to admit that without a project deadline, we would stay in the "fun prototyping zone" and never make it to making a product.

As a result, we gave ourselves a deadline of having kits available to purchase at the University Open Day in February 2024, this is the day that the new cohort of high school leavers entering uni walk around the campus and sign up to social clubs. We knew that the keyboard kit would be a popular concept and would bring many new people to our URC booth. At the time, I was also working another "Booth Magnet" project, "Build your own beyblade", which you can read about in its page here.

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