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Step 11: Route cables

The photos show routing through the channels in the base plate. You don’t have to use the channels: connecting the cables directly, without them, is easier to work with in the long run. Either way, make sure every cable keeps the right orientation: contacts down at the MCU, blue stiffener up.

  • You can put twists and creases in the FFCs wherever you like, under the PCBA or in the free sections below it.
  • Don’t cut or tear the FFCs, and don’t drive screws into them.

The right half is shown.

Three stages of routing the FFCs across the underside of the right base plate.

Three more stages of routing the FFCs on the right base plate, with the cables gathered toward the MCU position.

Left half

Section titled “Left half”

On the left half, the thumb FFC has to cross all the way to the opposite side.

Routing the FFCs on the left base plate. The thumb FFC crosses to the far side before it reaches the MCU.