Choose Your Own Adventure (or CYOA) Ortho is a keyboard that I designed and released recently under a CERN Open Hardware license. It is a simple Pro Micro compatible ortho PCB that you can freely adjust to your preferences by snapping off rows or columns to make your perfect Ortho board. The board is a …
Author archives: Moses Hoyt
Altoid Tin Music
I remember reading a long time ago about how Altoid tins make great little project cases for small electronic projects and I never got around to trying it out. So having a couple of hours on my hands and an Altoid tin in my hands I decided to give it a go. I’ve been playing …
PCB Design
I kind of made a New Year’s resolution in 2023 to get better, get more familiar with and ultimately relearn electronics, especially analogue electronics. I had done a lot of this before in university, but time spent not using any of these skills, nor thinking about these kind of challenges has a way of making …
Lagom 65% keyboard
After the success and launch of the Litl keyboard I wanted to try something a little more mainstream and potentially a little more challenging to design. Most people are familiar with a 65% layout with number keys and an arrow cluster, so that’s what I aimed for here. As before I wanted to keep similar …
Eurorack Power supply
I want to understand more about synthesisers and analogue electronics. Yes, technically I had studied a lot of it at university but I had also forgotten much of it, and when studying it then it wasn’t perhaps as practical and hands on as I wanted it to be. A way of doing this was to …
Litl 40% keyboard
Ever since I started my foray into mechanical keyboards back in 2020 I was interested by alternative form factors and layout styles. I also wanted to understand what it takes to design, build and program your own board from scratch. So that’s exactly what I did. TL;DR If you’re interested in buying a Litl keyboard …
Mechanical Keyboard project
I fancied a new project as I had the itch to make something new. Seeing as I spend most of my time in front of a computer during the working hours of the day I wondered if I could make that experience better by having a nicer keyboard. There’s a whole serious world of mechanical …