Hello,

I’m building my first keyboard (a dumbpad), and I have a basic question which should be easy to solve when you know how to do it.

I’ve choosen to socket the microcontroller (in case of error, bad choice…) but I have now a question for putting the screen above: what kind of header should I use ? Is there high profile header or should I stack multiples headers ?

What would you use for this ?

  • @ChimrodOPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I’ve soldered the female headers on the board:

    The the male on the controler :

    • apfelEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      I see. So you have two sets of sockets: soldered ones (those on your controller) and hot-swappable ones (those on your board), and you’ve stacked them. It will probably work fine, but the usual approach is using only one of these.

      Example for the hot-swappable ones:

      Hot-swappable sockets on board, pins on controller

      Controller fitted into socket

      • @ChimrodOPEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        Thanks ! I understand what I did wrong. I do not have the motivation to remove the header from the controller and put them in a proper way. I will keep it as is — as the result from my first attempt to solder my keyboard!

        Now I have to find a way to stack three layer for the screen!

        • apfelEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          Just happy little accidents! :)