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Fish keyboard
Takuma Onishi created this fancy Fish keyboard as part of the Tokyo Hackathon.
Published May 24, 2023
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Originally developed for the Keyboard Input Hackathon 2023, Tokyo, the Fish keyboard by Takuma Onishi is a cool handwired split with pretty unique thumb cluster and of course overall shape.
Specs
- 32 keys (basically a slightly modified 3x5+2 layout)
- handwired
- vertical 2-key thumb cluster
- paraboloid-like surface
- body and caps modeled together (in Blender)
Resources
Unfortunately, the design files are not available, but there's a detailed post about this project written by the designer.
And Daihuku was there to report on the event, covering the Fish keyboard as well (from 1:42:57):
Published on Wed 24th May 2023. Featured in KBD #123 (source).
Tags: inspiration3D
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