Essence Hyper170 's Essence is an angled unibody split populated by a standard ANSI keycap set.
KBD.news Published February 22, 2023
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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.
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Published on Wed 22nd Feb 2023. Featured in KBD #114 (source ).
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