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42Azalia

AsherKeats' 42Azalia is a monoblock angled ortho created by a PCB generator.

KBD.news
Published December 16, 2022

The 42Azalia by AsherKeats is a gasket mounted 42-key unibody angled ortholinear keyboard driven by an RP2040. The case is tilted at 6 degrees.

42Azalia is my pet project and a test bed for automated PCB generator that I’ve been working on – AsherKeats.

The other interesting point is that this is split ready: the halves are driven by separate I2C IO expanders, and the controller board is actually in the brass weight.

More photos: https://imgur.com/a/zZm1G6T/

Published on Fri 16th Dec 2022. Featured in KBD #107 (source).

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