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Le Capybara

Sporkus' Le Capybara is a capacitive sensing (aka Topre) keyboard in Le Chiffre layout.

KBD.news
Published December 8, 2023

The build in the top photo was posted by ArisPilton, and the board is Sporkus' Le Capybara, a capacitive sensing (aka EC/Topre) keyboard in Le Chiffre layout.

Specs

• 44-47 keys
• capacitive/Topre switches
• on-board controller
• OLED, rotary encoder and LED strip support

While there are 30 mounting holes to assemble the PCB-switch-plate sandwich, 15-20 sets should be more than enough:

Resources

• https://github.com/sporkus/le_capybara_keyboard

Published on Fri 8th Dec 2023. Featured in KBD #146 (source).

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