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Building a new Amiga Keyboard

Jan Beta

Jan Beta

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I'm building a new open source mechanical keyboard for big box Amigas from scratch. // Kindly sponsored by my favorite PCB manufacturer PCBWay! https://www.pcbway.com/

A2000 Serotina Github with BOM, firmware and instructions: https://github.com/grahamshaw1972/a2000Serotina

Amiga Love Forum post about the project: https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2039

Amiga Test Kit Diagnostics Software: https://github.com/keirf/amiga-stuff

Crimping Tools*: US: https://amzn.to/3FKQCKW UK: https://amzn.to/49mnSWx DE: https://amzn.to/471zext

TIME STAMPS: 0:00 Introduction 2:21 Materials needed 5:23 Sponsor Message 5:53 Starting the Keyboard Build 7:35 Preparing the Amiga Cable 11:09 Soldering the Components 16:27 Preparing the Teensy Microcontroller 19:13 Soldering LEDs 21:01 Mistakes were made! 25:04 Initial Function Test 26:42 Fitting the Key Switches 32:39 Testing the Key Switches 33:26 Fitting the Keycaps 42:20 Finished Product 43:47 Thank you & Good Night

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Thanks for watching!

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