I’ve long been into keyboards, but I’ve never taken the time or invested the money into really building my own fully custom keyboard. When I finally pulled the trigger, I decided on the Monstargear XO V3 Alu keyboard kit. It came with a PCB that would allow me to customize it how I saw fit (or so I thought) using an open source firmware project called QMK or quantum mechanical keyboard. Once I received the keyboard and got it all assembled, I decided to modify my keymap to add some functions like volume controls. When I looked into what I needed to do, instead of compiling from source, I had to use some strange website with an IP address in China. This was disappointing to say the least, but not the end of the world for me since it would still do most of what I wanted. I followed the directions and uploaded my keymap files to the website and...got an error...great. I jumped on to the company’s Discord server and asked for some help. I was quickly asked a few questions and the...