Keyboard Tips & Tricks - Volume 1
CTRL + F to quickly skip to each tip/trick below: Tip #1 - Cheap Dust Cover (Shower Caps) Tip #2 - Upgrade Your Wire Keycap Puller to Plastic Tip #3 - Test Your PCB/QC Your Board Before Building Soldering-Specific: Tip #4 - Take Your Time. Set Yourself up for Soldering Success Tip #5 - Using the Right Size Soldering Tip Tip #6 - Soldering Loose Switches/Plateless Builds - Rubber Bands Tip #7 - Fixing Crooked Switches After Soldering Extra Tip - Test Your PCB After Soldering… BEFORE You Put Away Your Soldering Equipment Intro & Disclaimer A recent mistake. Mixed three sets of beige PBT keycap sets and spent a good while having to separate everything... “I wish I had known about this sooner…” I can’t tell you the amount of times that I’ve said those words out loud, or thought about them when it comes to the keyboard hobby. Whether it’s what someone in the community has told me, or something I found out myself, even things that may seem so simple as using...
Mar 11, 2025
I've tried disconnecting the cable and plugging it in several times and this is repeatable. I've tried some minor jiggling here and there in case something inside magically worked loose and a shift in the cable triggered an issue, but I neither see anything loose nor have been able to fix the problem by doing this.
I haven't yet stripped the case and keycaps off to attempt further debugging, but I strongly suspect that the Teensy just blew itself up as everything else is more or less "dumb" components with solid solder connections that I tested with a multimeter at every step along the way. I imagine that if I desolder the Teensy and plug it in with just the USB connection (trying at least two cables to be sure that it isn't the cable that has gone bad) and it is still unresponsive to the programming and debug applications, then it would be pretty clear that the Teensy is the issue.
Any chance that in that case it would be covered by any kind of warranty?