I built my first keyboard a few years ago. Love it. Though my cat knocked a drink over into it a year or so ago and i was too upset to see what did and didn’t work. Today I found the keyboard and decided to see if it works! Well it seems the space bar and H key are effed. I think the 3 keys on the right are also busted but I forget what they do lol. They don’t trigger anything on the keyboard tester.

I hoped that I could just hot swap some switches and be good but it seems H and space and whatever is on my bottom right corner do not work no matter the switch. I imagine that means the board is bad? Prob no fixing? At least it seems I can just swap the board and should be good to go. Thought I’d ask for tips…

  • Latuga17@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Make sure to fully clean the board. You may be able to make the dead keys work again by using a wire between switches to bypass the dead traces. This takes a lot of trial and error but I have fixed a keeboard where that I burnt the traces on by doing this.