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Hammerhead42
The Hammerhead42 by Armin Anderson is a unibody split keyboard with a 40mm trackpad and a joystick.
Published September 22, 2024
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Armin Anderson aka Bauns shared his Hammerhead42 – a unibody/monoblock split with a 40mm Cirque trackpad and joystick that functions as a 5-way switch and rotary encoder in one. The design was inspired by Jason Hazel's Bad Wings.
I picked hammerhead as the name because when I was originally designing the handwired plate for the prototype, at one point it looked almost identical to a hammerhead shark's head and I thought it fit – Brauns.
This was originally a handwired build, teased in Issue #168, but now there is a PCB.
Specs
- 42 keys (6x3+3)
- Helios controller
- Cirque trackpad, 40mm
- RKJXT1F42001 joystick (encoder + 5-way switch)
- 24 degrees angle
Resources
Published on Sun 22nd Sep 2024. Featured in KBD #175 (source).
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