Last year, I put together a new keyboard. Described here

I have a bit of feedback after a year of usage. Let me also state, that I have 3 of these in the house. Both my son and daughter built their own in the last year.

Every. Single. One. Of. Them. Has. Had. Key. Problems.

I feel it is a design flaw in the long run, to not have solder in keys like their previous revisions but contact junctions.

The two main issues I have noticed is:

1. A non-insignificant amount of times while installing a key switch, the pin doesn’t line up perfects and just gets crumpled. There is no way to tell until after install and you find out keys don’t work
2. The junction itself starts to fail. This makes pressing keys unreliable. This requires an entire swapout

Otherwise, I still really like my keyboard. After about a year the following keys started to fail often enough I was tired of it:

• [{ }]
• (9 0)
• y
• d
• e
• space

I do a bit of programming and yaml/json/infrastructure code. These keys being unreliable was incredibly frustrating.

Owen’s keyboard had about 5 keys, they were all crushed pins during installation. Caralyne had three, two were bad junctions and one was a bad switch.

This weekend I got out the soldering iron and fixed all of ours

I didn’t do those two bodge wires, it came like that. That, I dont mind. Better than tossing a good board.

Anway, that was a fun project