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Froggr

Froggr is the next board in weteor's Orthocade family: a 12u ortholinear keyboard with 48 keys and offset bottom row.

KBD.news
Published February 4, 2023

Another model published as part of weteor's Orthocade family: the Froggr is an ortholinear keyboard with 43-48 keys and an offset bottom row.

Froggr, which extends to 12u to have room for standard modifiers. Build this for my wife, because she wanted to learn touch typing and I think 12u is a lot easier to get into than 10u – weteor.

Specs

• 43-48 MX switches
• hotswap
• Seeed Xiao controller (RP2040 or BLE) on an Orthocade MCU board
• ZMK (Xiao BLE) or QMK w/vial (Xiao RP2040) support
• Multiple bottom row arrangements supported
• Resin with acrylic inlay case design

Resources

• https://github.com/weteor/Froggr

Published on Sat 4th Feb 2023. Featured in KBD #113.

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