JK206 Jhonatan Ferrer 's JK206 is an open-source 12x5 ortho keyboard – actually 3 numpads stuck together.
KBD.news Published March 22, 2024
Published a few months ago, the JK206 by Jhonatan Ferrer aka Jhoalferco has now a nice stacked acrylic case (not yet in the repo).
Some time ago I designed and assembled the JK206 keyboard, and I was quite happy with the result but it looked a bit fragile, so I designed a new case with gasket mount using stacked acrylic – Jhonatan.
This project consists of a mechanical ortholinear keyboard design that is capable of being used as a macropad/numpad or a 50% keyboard.
This is achieved through the modular design of the PCB that can be used by itself to mount a macropad with up to 20 keys (5 of them can be exchanged for encoders), while with three PCBs you can build a keyboard with up to 60 keys (3 of them can be encoders).
Specs
4x5 PCB
hotswap, MX
optional encoders
Raspberry Pi Pico
KMK
stacked acrylic case
Resources
Published on Fri 22nd Mar 2024. Featured in KBD #159 (source ).
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