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Num64

Glitch860 teased a rather uncommon layout with the angled monoblock Num64.

KBD.news
Published August 26, 2025

The Num64 by Glitch860 is a strange little 60-key board, with a hard-to-describe physical layout: it's a 1800-ish angled monoblock split – with dedicated arrow cluster and minimalistic numpad.

Keyboard is called Num64. Wanted to have a better design that my first go at it. And I wanted to have the logo embossed on the case – Glitch860.

Features

• 60 keys
• MX switches, soldered
• nice!nano V2 controller
• per-key RGB
• 3D-printed keycaps by Riskable
• 3D-printed case

Resources

WIP, no KiCad files at the moment, just Gerber and case STLs:

• https://github.com/Glitch860/Num64

Published on Tue 26th Aug 2025. Featured in KBD #197 (source).

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