I’ve had a ROG Azoth (don’t judge) keyboard for about a year now. Been using it for both programming and gaming, and I really like it, but there are a few issues (software being the obvious one). So I’ve decided it’s time to put together my own keyboard. I started watching some YouTube and yeah… I’m out of my depth here.
So I was wondering if maybe people could share things they wish they knew when starting out so I don’t mess up to badly.
I’ve already found this switch tester which I figured would give me a general idea of what kind of switches might be for me. Other than that, I’m not really sure how to proceed 😅.
I’m not interesting in doing any soldering.
Thankfully when I first got into mechanical keyboards the flood of the cheap slop hadn’t happened. So like worst keyboard you’d find is like a sturdy plastic housing with a metal backplate.
Switch tester to find what you like. Then buy once cry once. Don’t get gamer garbage, find one that works out of the box the way you want. Maybe QMK so you can program it once to do what you want, then you never need the software ever again.
QMK is definitely on my requirement list after having read about it.
My biggest job right now is figuring out who is quality and who is slop. There’s so many brands out there now.
Good news is that QMK isn’t typically on garbage (yet) so filtering by has QMK first helps a lot.