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Klein keyboard

A feature-rich split design by noSNK supporting Pro Micro and XIAO footprints: Klein.

KBD.news
Published October 27, 2022

Named after the German mathematician Christian Felix Klein, this Klein is a split keyboard by noSNK aka Shashank, supporting controllers with both Pro Micro and Seeed XIAO footprints.

My first custom keyboard design Klein, with bluetooth, encoder, touchpad, oled, buzzer and haptics – noSNK.

Features

• Column staggered
• Bluetooth compatible with power switch
• Seeed Studio XIAO / Pro Micro (nice!nano, KB2040, etc.) compatible
• Hotswap MX and Choc support
• Trackpad support with FPC/FFC connector + ribbon cable and direct wiring
• SMD and through hole diode footprint

Resources

• GitHub repo.
• Firmware.
• The project on hackster.io.

The PCB and assembly was sponsered by Seeed Fusion PCBA (coupon).

Published on Thu 27th Oct 2022. Featured in KBD #100 (source).

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