Elephant42 panda An update to illness72 's original elephant42: palette-system shared elephant42 panda , a new version with an I/O expander.
KBD.news Published May 5, 2022
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Illness072's elephant42 is not new, it's almost 2 years old. As such, it predates the kbd.news project so it hasn't been featured on these pages yet.
However, I constantly stumble upon it on Twitter so @4py1 aka palette-system 's elephant42_panda project, an I/O expander mod to the original PCB, seemed to be a good occasion to introduce both.
The elephant42 is a split keyboard that was very strongly influenced by the design philosophy of Fuku aka @yfuku 's claw44 .
Hotswappable split, relatively aggressive pinky stagger, 4-key thumb arc, OLED display, and open source:
https://github.com/illness072/elephant42
And palette-system announced the elephant42_panda , which is a WIP(?) PCB that sports the MCP23017 I/O expander instead of another Pro Micro.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/palette-system/elephant42_panda
It allegedly looks like a panda, thus the name, but honestly, I have no idea where that panda is hidden.
How does this look like a panda?!
Published on Thu 5th May 2022. Featured in KBD #77 (source ).
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