Lily58 Pro Keyboard Kit

I’m an avid Mx switch user migrating to choc switches. I installed the sunsets on these and it just doesn’t do it for me. I’ll give it some time but I might install mx sockets on here instead.

Also note for those wanting to install the nice!view on this board. The nice!view five pin connector isn’t directly compatible with the pcb printed by keebd, you need to do a bit of a hack. May not be a big deal for some but if I had known I would’ve had the specs printed myself because I know you can get it printed with the 5 socket for the oled.

Takes a little getting used to keyboard layout.

Pcb pads fell off on one side while trying to bridge two pads for OLED. Will have to live with it.

Quality kit, but you're given like 1 extra diode if you make a mistake so I suggest looking at buying just a bit extra components. Those diodes are so small. Spent an hour looking through carpet to find the ones I dropped.

The oled display is not really compatible with hotswap controllers. Basically you solder in the hotswap headers then the controller, but after, you have to solder in the display which will cover the controller, which didn't make sense to me so I opted to not put in a display.

I'm now using the keyboard at home and at work. The build guide didn't have any info on the Helios board, so in case others are wondering, the top two through holes are unused. You can use the ground pins to line things up with the lily58 kicad schematic. Also, flashing a helios just takes copying a uf2 file to the board once you've reset it and mounted it as a storage drive.

I had a lot of fun building it and a mild panic until I figured out the last bit!

Great split keyboard layout, nice kit.