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 ?

  • 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! :)