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FU!Keyboard
ILWrites' gigantic ortholinear FU!Keyboard is now open-source.
Published December 28, 2021
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182 keys… But why?!
Anyway, the FU!Keyboard (which stands for Functionally Ultimate Keyboard, also abbreviated as FUK) is a hotswappable 26x7 ortholinear behemoth of a keyboard with OLED display, 4 independent rotary encoders and addressable RGB per-key illumination.
FUK sports the memory-rich Atmel AT90USB1286 MCU for the native QMK and VIA(L) support (and with that many keys you are gonna need a whole lotta memory for a whole lotta macros, extra keystrokes and all sorts of stuff).
GitHub repo with PCB and case files: https://github.com/PiKeeb/fu-keyboard
This PCB hasn't been tested yet. All the designs and files are provided "AS IS" without any warranty or support.
Published on Tue 28th Dec 2021. Featured in KBD #59 (source).
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