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Ground Control 40

A low-profile ortho board with exposed pins for prototyping: Ground Control 40 by Nick Coughlin.

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Published July 15, 2024
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The Ground Control 40 Dev Board is an open-source 40% ortholinear keyboard shell with exposed pin header, designed by Nick Coughlin aka ncoughlin/NC_Developer for rapid prototyping with any microcontroller of your choice.

Features

  • 45 keys (12x4-ish)
  • split spacebar ortholinear 40% layout
  • low-profile (Choc v1), hotswap
  • folded switch matrix to minimize required I/O pins
  • combined rotary encoder + 5-direction multiswitch in one (Alps RKJXT1F42001)

Pic:

The row, column and encoder pins are exposed with a 1x20 socket to easily connect anything to a breadboard.

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Published on Mon 15th Jul 2024. Featured in KBD #169 (source).

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