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Lobotomy

Kilipan's Lobotomy is a crazy 30-40% Alice keyboard.

KBD.news
Published May 7, 2025

Apfel/Kilipan's Lobotomy is nothing new, the project was shared last December, however, I came across some build photos only recently – thanks to 3X0karibu.

The keyboard your therapist told you to worry about. An unholy mixture of Alice and Bruce, have fun with this one y'all! – kilipan.

Specs

• 34 keys
• MX, hotswap
• FAK firmware
• custom caps by Yuzu Keycaps

Resources

• https://github.com/kilipan/lobotomy

Published on Wed 7th May 2025. Featured in KBD #191 (source).

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