Sotol Board

Sotol is a project board with space for five PB86 step switches. Add your favorite 'QT Py'-compatible board from Adafruit and you have yourself a flexible, fun-sized project.

What's that, you don't want 5 step switches on your board?

Fine! Use the built-in breakaway tabs to remove switches, down to a single one.

But wait! Don't throw away those switch boards you broke off.

Each of switches two through five contains four breadboard-friendly connections that allow you to solder headers onto.

Motivation

Once you get your hands on a PB86 step switch, you will understand just how satisfying the click click click sound and feel of them is. I wanted to design a PCB that allows you to do stuff with those switches.

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Assembly

In order to fully assemble Sotol, you will need the following:

Supply List

• 5 PB86 Step Switches
  • Adafruit shop
  • Honyone Specifications
• 5 1k ohm Resistors
  • Adafruit shop
• 1 Adafruit QT Py variant:

Board	Compatible?
Adafruit QT Py ESP32-S3	✅
Adafruit QT Py ESP32-S2	✅
Adafruit QT Py ESP32-C3	✅
Adafruit QT Py RP2040	✅
Adafruit QT Py SAMD21	✅

Instructions

1. Solder the 5 resistors
2. Solder the 5 step switches
3. Solder the QT Py