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Lumberjack: a 60% ortho

Lumberjack is an open-source 60% ortho PCB by peejeh – with exposed components.

KBD.news
Published January 8, 2021

The Lumberjack, this 5x12 through-hole ortholinear keyboard PCB, was designed and shared by Paul James aka peej. Visible component aesthetic in a standard 60% case.

Specs

• 60 keys (6x5 per ortho half)
• MX, soldered
• ATMEGA328P-PU microcontroller
• QMK

The goal of this project was to build an ortholinear PCB that uses through-hole components only and fits in a standard 60% tray-mount case – inspired by Takuya Urakawa's Plaid.

Resources

• https://github.com/peej/lumberjack-keyboard

Published on Fri 8th Jan 2021. Featured in KBD #8 (source).

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