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Egg58 v2
Travis Mick published his low-pro split egg58 – along the lines of the Ergodox/Sofle/Moonlander.
Published April 2, 2023
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The egg58 by Travis Mick aka le1ca/tmick0 is a column-staggered, low-profile split with 58 keys and per-key RGB. The PCB is reversible and open source.
Finally confident enough in my design to share it. […] I realize there are similar keebs out there, but I'm picky so I had to make my own – le1ca.
Specs
- 58 keys
- low-profile, hotswap
- Choc spacing
- reversible PCB
- Pro Micro footprint
- per-key RGB
egg58 v2
The egg58 was designed to remain fairly close in layout to an ANSI 60% keyboard, but with a reduced number of keys and minimal thumb clusters.
I pretty much started with an ergodox layout, removed keys to make it roughly 60%, then tuned the stagger and thumb cluster positioning based on where my fingers would land on a printout – le1ca.
Resources
Published on Sun 2nd Apr 2023. Featured in KBD #118 (source).
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