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Jorne is an extended Corne keyboard with extra keys for brackets and international layouts
https://github.com/joric/jorne/wiki
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How to connect the trackpoint board to the keyboard PCB? #18

Closed hochshi closed 1 year ago

hochshi commented 1 year ago

Hi, I'm in the middle of planning an "embedded" trackpoint controller board support to my variation of the corne. I've added the driver board electronics as SMT components similarly to the buzzard and would like to connect the controller board to the PCB to the right of the thumb cluster (increase the right side PCB just a little bit). This way I won't have to play around with too much rewiring (I think).

However, I'm unsure how to actually connect the controller board to the keyboard PCB. I thought of soldering right angle pins over the pads between the controller board and sensor module, this way I could at least socket the controller board. I'm just afraid it would be too flimsy and hard to solder.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks

joric commented 1 year ago

I don't. There's a bunch of examples in the wiki, e.g. https://github.com/joric/jorne/wiki/Trackpoint#buzzard I think all lenovo trackpads have a few mounting holes for screws and they hold them inplace pretty strurdy.

hochshi commented 1 year ago

Thanks