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Mushi

Dane Lipscombe shared his Mushi, another cute 36-key split keyboard.

KBD.news
Published September 13, 2023

After his Chouchou, designed to be used with the Taipo chording system, Mushi is a small 36-key ergo true split by Dane Lipscombe (aka dlip/fata1err0r81).

Mushi (Japanese for bug) is low-profile, hotswap, and sports cheap RP2040-Zero controllers.

Specs

• 36 keys
• low profile
• hotswap or soldered
• diodeless design
• RP2040-Zero MCU
• low-profile printed case
• inner thumb splay to make it easier to reach
• created with Ergogen and KiCad

Resources

• https://github.com/dlip/mushi

Published on Wed 13th Sep 2023. Featured in KBD #135 (source).

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