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Kurp

Kurp is a 36-key ortholinear keyboard – open-sourced by quirk.

KBD.news
Published April 9, 2023

Jason Hazel aka quirk shared the files of his Kurp, a 36-key ortho board in the style of monoblock splits, inspired by the Humla and ChocV:

Kurp started life as a commission that fell through. Instead of ditching it, I finished it up and am releasing the source – quirk.

Kurp sports 36 Choc-spaced switches arranged in a unibody split ortholinear layout with OLED/nice!view and battery support. Using a nice!nano and nice!view should make it a nice, compact, portable keyboard.

Specs

• 36 keys, ortholinear grid
• low-pro Choc spacing
• Pro Micro footprint

Resources

• https://github.com/jasonhazel/kurp

Published on Sun 9th Apr 2023. Featured in KBD #120 (source).

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