A Small Plea Against "Switch Harvesting"
First and foremost, I think that it should be said right out of the gate that you are entitled to do whatever you want to do on your own behalf and this article is not a provocation to fight with you about your decisions. However, in my pursuit of wanting to cover as many topics about switches as I possibly can, I realize I have not yet covered ‘switch harvesting’, one of the practices that I’m becoming less favorable towards as the years go on. Rather than trying to cover the history of this in a not so unbiased fashion, I figure I might as well try and convince you all as to why I feel this way about this process. After all, you’ve read my opinions more than once before on this website… In the earliest days of the custom mechanical keyboard hobby, years which start around 2008 and span to 2012, the vast majority of custom keyboards were built using switches had already had previous lives in other keyboards. Given that there were few if any switch manufacturers selling switches...
Mar 26, 2025
When I use the programming software I can read the settings on the board, program lights and save key layouts on the program to my drive, but whenever I try to write new key layouts to the board the program says OK and then the keyboard doesn't react as programmed.
I tried writing the layout to the keyboard and subsequently reading from the keyboard and the layout showed on the program displays the key layout the board had before attempting to program it, this makes me think the program can't write keys to the board. I've tried resetting my board, restarting my computer and
Did I receive a damaged board or is it the software? I suspect I might just have an older version of the software. Is anybody else having this problem?
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I don't know where else to reach out to.