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Ben Cooper's Block is a 12x4 hotswap ortholinear keyboard with OLED display.

KBD.news
Published January 24, 2023

Ben Cooper aka bncpr published his 12x4 ortho, a hotswap keyboard with an OLED display in the gap between the halves.

Just finished building my first design. I wanted to have a first design project to play with before designing a split keyboard. It's a 12x4 design with hotswappable sockets for MX Cherry or Kailh Choh – bncpr.

The gap in the middle was added for an OLED display but also to get used to having separate sides for each hand.

Resources

• https://github.com/bncpr/block-kbd

Published on Tue 24th Jan 2023. Featured in KBD #112 (source).

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