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Chouchou keyboard
Dane Lipscombe published his Chouchou, a minimalist monoblock split designed to be used with the Taipo chording system.
Published August 1, 2023
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The Chouchou (Japanese for butterfly) by Dane Lipscombe aka dlip/fata1err0r is a minimalist unibody keyboard designed to be used with the Taipo layout.
I started learning the Taipo layout recently on a ferris sweep, but it wasn't ideal. Since it requires a lot of combos in addition to my hands being large, I often fat-fingered keys by mistake. So I decided to try building a keyboard that would give my hands some room to spread their wings so to speak – Dane.
It uses a cheap RP2040-Zero MCU and requires no diodes since the 20 edge pinouts it provides is the exact number of keys Taipo requires. It was created with Ergogen and KiCad.
I designed it for my largish hands so if you have smaller hands its probably not going to be comfortable. I might make a more compact version in the future if people request it – dlip.
Specs
- 20 low-pro keys
- optionally hotswap
- RP2040-Zero controller
- diodeless design
Resources
Published on Tue 1st Aug 2023. Featured in KBD #130 (source).
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