I don't understand the issues that prompted you to develop this, can you explain them a bit more? What hot-swap connector are you using this with?
Of course making a cool new board can simply be motivated be a desire to do so 😀.
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I don't understand the issues that prompted you to develop this, can you explain them a bit more? What hot-swap connector are you using this with?
Of course making a cool new board can simply be motivated be a desire to do so 😀.
If you want to put a controller on the underside of a keyboard, like the promicro, you can do it with just a standard MX or choc footprint by straddling the switch footprint. But if you swap the switch footprint with a kailh hotswap socket footprint the pads overlap with the promicro's through holes. So to keep the promicro under the switches you'd need to rotate it or remove some of the pins from the footprint, giving you less IO. This is designed to be able to be placed over the hotswap footprint.
I guess an image says more than a thousand words?
any chance the D+/- lines are broken out to a couple pins?
I wasn’t planning on it since sacrifices two pins.
And seeing as the USB port is available to place by the edge very easily as you can place the controller over any key.
To explain, the USB port should end up needing only 3-5 mm edge on a sandwich case, or a hollow similar to how most pcb’s place it on a CNC/3d case.
Any particular reason beyond that? I’m open to reasonable compromises.
Btw, I can easily pull them out to a pair of pads, there is space for that.
just thinking about those designs where a case is wanted, but the position of the usb port isn't ideal. not one of those things that I think is required to make this a great controller option, just something a lot of controllers don't have and I've wanted for a bit.
I will second this request. I might not personally need this (yet) but it is a good option.