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Aether
The Aether is a handwired keyboard by EvilTacoMan7533, based on the Atreus.
Published June 12, 2021
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I designed this layout over the course of a few months and many, many iterations. At first, I started designing it because I was just experimenting, and didn't really expect for it to come to life.
I started off inspired by this, and it changed a lot over time and eventually I decided to split it and took inspiration from the Atreus. I was looking at split ergo keyboards for a while but they were very small and didn't have enough keys for me, so I decided I wanted something Atreus-like with basically the keys of a TKL and macro keys, which there are 6 of now. This keyboard took overall about 4 months to make (mostly because I didn't have enough money), and about $220, not including the soldering iron. Also this was my second custom keyboard coming from a hotswap gk64x :).
Plate DXF: https://github.com/Y5U/Aether
More pictures: https://lutim.lagout.org/gallery#KXXLLhD0/1If5F8OY.jpg,mUbfvjGo/nt44O2jZ.jpg,ec3ZmRr5/fHDhFdkf.jpg,tlQ3bQG8/h7Twbx8I.jpg
Published on Sat 12th Jun 2021. Featured in KBD #30 (source).
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