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Hermod

Charlie Steenhagen's modular low-pro split keyboard: the Hermod with huge displays.

KBD.news
Published May 26, 2025

Charlie Steenhagen (aka csteamengine, Modern Hobbyist) shared his Hermod, a cool modular split design with detachable numbpad. Low profile, 2.2" LCDs.

Super excited to share my very first split keyboard build, got a few bugs but overall, super happy with how it turned out! – Charlie.

Features

• 102 (39+43+20) keys?! (full number and function rows, dedicated arrow cluster)
• low-pro Choc switches, hotswap
• on-board STM32F072CBT6 MCU
• magnetic Pogo connectors for modular numpad
• 2.2" LCDs
• per-key RGB

Video demo

Resources

• https://github.com/modern-hobbyist/aesir/tree/main/hermod
• Hermod project on PCBWay

Published on Mon 26th May 2025. Featured in KBD #191 (source).

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