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Essence

Hyper170's Essence is an angled unibody split populated by a standard ANSI keycap set.

KBD.news
Published February 22, 2023

Hyper170 aka Hyper-works published a monoblock split keyboard designed with standard ANSI keycap sets in mind. The 64-key Essence features a rotary encoder and is powered by an Elite-C devboard.

1 year and lots of clueless fumbling later, I have designed my own keyboard from scratch! – Hyper170.

Resources

• https://github.com/Hyper-works/Essence

Published on Wed 22nd Feb 2023. Featured in KBD #114 (source).

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