Just completed building mine as a first time keyboard builder, luckily my components had both the right and left PCBs. A few thoughts and issues that came up:
1. Didn't expect the hole for the USB ports to be so huge, hopefully won't be attracting too much dust in the future.
2. 2U keys with the stabilizer bars kept "sticking" so I decided not to use them for now on my right.
3. Happy to see a small pinhole for the flash buttons on both cases.
4. Had to recap a few keycaps and the Cherry MX clears made it very difficult!
5. Soldering was easier than expected.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. Now to get used to typing on this...
Idaho-ianthey're not bad. I haven't tried the full hand add-on yet (more focused on QMK firmware right now) but this is better than not having anything. one issue is that they can move around and the second is that they give off the "mouse pad" smell.
C0deM0nk3yIt was slightly tricky. I spent a few hours reading documentation and used the massdrop configurator to prototype the base layer. One thing that caught me was that too many key combinations would cause weird issues so I simplified some things or moved them to other layers. I also ran into a dfu-util issues that were solved by reading github issues. Ended up using the 333fred layout and modifying it for my needs. Pretty happy with it so far but more tweaking will inevitably follow.
sup4mnI haven't gotten into customizing my layers yet, but it needs to happen sooner ra than later. I'm a lot more familiar with QMK from my PLANCKs, so it's good to hear that QMK is working well for you.
sup4mnHey I had keys that got stuck too and I found the issue was the stabilizer grips that went in the keycaps. By pushing on the bottom of those plastic grips the space that the keycaps slide between opens up more and makes it not stick. Since you already soldered you can probably just try wiggling plastic grips to open up the space. Hope this helps.
HerAresThanks for the tip! It looks like the white plastic stabilizers "opened up" the past couple of days and accepted the stabilizer grips a lot more freely than when I last tried them out. Now my keyboard is complete!!!
1. Didn't expect the hole for the USB ports to be so huge, hopefully won't be attracting too much dust in the future. 2. 2U keys with the stabilizer bars kept "sticking" so I decided not to use them for now on my right. 3. Happy to see a small pinhole for the flash buttons on both cases. 4. Had to recap a few keycaps and the Cherry MX clears made it very difficult! 5. Soldering was easier than expected.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. Now to get used to typing on this...