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Narfkb2

Sebastian Stump made some changes to his design and published Narfkb2 with extra pinky column.

KBD.news
Published May 13, 2023

After the Uninarf, Sebastian Stumpf aka ADreamOfStorms got back to true splits and published Narfkb2, a revision of the original Narfkb.

I expanded the existing design to use 42 keys, increased the columnar stagger, changed the choc footprints to mx, cleaned up the pin allocation and basically reworked the entire routing – ADreamOfStorms.

Specs

• 42 keys (6x3+3 – extra pinky column)
• hotswap MX (MX thumb keys – narfkb had low-pro thumb keys)
• increased stagger
• Waveshare RP2040-Zero controller

Resources

• https://github.com/sebastian-stumpf/narfkb2

Published on Sat 13th May 2023. Featured in KBD #122 (source).

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