Building the Piet was fun, but I cannot get up to speed with it. I don’t know if it is the unusual switches or the flat keycaps. But I do enjoy the layout, so I built another one with more familiar switches and keycaps.

Facts⌗

Model no.Freebird Lumberjack
Manufacturercustom
Manufacture Date2023
CaseFreebird60 e-white
PlateFR4
SwitchesZealios V2 65 grams
KeycapsMT3 Jukebox
Dimensions295 × 105 × 30 mm
Weight990 grams
PCB/SoftwareLumberjack + QMK

Highlights⌗

My second THT build. I really enjoy soldering it together. Designing and building a hand-wired keyboard (like my C64 themed Planck64 or the Atreus 62) is a lot of work. Especially soldering all the wires and getting the firmware set up. THT is a great alternative as soldering the switches to the PCB is easier and the firmware already exists.

This is the first time I used Mill-Max Sockets to make a non-hot-swappable PCB hot-swappable. I used a sacrificial switch to get the alignments right. It was quite an easy job; I only messed up two sockets soldering the switch to the socket.

Sounds⌗

SwitchKeycaps
Novelkeys BlueberrySA

Layouts⌗

Similar to my first Planck but with some additional keys mapped on the first row.

Qwertz layer⌗

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