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Kailh Pinks

2021-03-14T20:23

Last Friday, the Kailh Pink keyboard switches that ordered arrived. It is these switches that I thought had the most potential. I also ordered Kailh Navy, but they're still on their way. Rather than wait longer, I decided to go ahead and install the pinks.

I intended to swap one switch at a time and solder it in, but that didn't work. The Kailhs are less tolerant of defective mounting holes than the Gateron are. If the holes are too tight the stems bind. To file those hole more I needed to remove the wiring. So out it all came. Don't do what I did, get your plates lasercut.

I spent the first night pulling out the Gaterons making the Kailhs operating smoothly.

The next night I started soldering them in. Like last time, I'm using uninsulated wire for the rows and the columns. Where they bridge each other, I keep an air gap. The wire is fairly stiff and once the diodes are soldered in, it's quite rigid. About half way through, I found that I could route the columns over the bump in the centre of the switch. This way the columns are better supported, the air-gap tighter and the diodes are cut shorter. This all makes it stronger and neater too. So once I finished, I removed the ugly first half.

And last night I re-did the columns I removed, and patched it into the Teensy.

Tonight I update the firmware to match the new reality and hopefully I'll have a working keyboard to try out tomorrow.

Installing the switches

The switch matrix made

The rows patched into the Teensy

All finished (sorry, it's blurry)

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