swift502
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1 week ago Hi! Glad you like the board. 👌
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I originally wanted hot swap, because I thought I could get JLCPCB to solder them for me. But that's very impractical, so I just ditched hotswap altogether, because it would just mean spending extra money on the sockets. But obviously it's possible, just needs rewiring of the pcb. I would do that if there was more interest. But right now you'd have to do that yourself. In kicad.
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As for the controller, that sounds a little advanced for me. I don't know anything about daisy chaining and stuff. You'll have to redesign the whole PCB, and rebuild the qmk firmware - change the controller type and cols/rows pin identifiers. So it's possible but those are very extensive changes. You'd almost be better off starting from scratch, because you'd be rewiring the whole PCB.
Sounds doable, I'd love to see if you make it work.
I love the design, great work! A couple things that would really take it over the top for me, namely the ability to use hotswap sockets and the ability to make it wireless. I'd love to use a Seeed XIAO BLE (like TOTEM) along with two daisy chained shift registers (74hc595) which would be needed in order to get enough pins for the matrix.
I know there are a lot of learning resources available in this space and I started to have a look at them in order to work on this project, but before I went further into the rabbit hole I wanted to get your opinion. Is this a fools errant? Have you already considered and/or started on any changes like these? Any other input?
Thanks!