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PHNX keyboard
Sinisha Stojchevski's PHNX is a unibody split keyboard with on-board MCU.
Published May 2, 2024
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Sinisha Stojchevski aka sini6a/PigletFuzzy5314 published his PHNX, a unibody split keyboard with on-board MCU.
I'm excited to share with you the completion of my latest project: an ergonomic custom mechanical keyboard! Over the past few months, I've been actively working on this keyboard, and I'm thrilled to finally see it come to life – Sinisha.
Specifications
- monoblock split
- 54 keys (5x3+3 plus an offset column per half)
- MX, soldered
- per-key LED
- on-board ATMega32U4 MCU
- QMK
Video
In this video the author goes through the whole building process, starting with the schematic and covering the board layout, ordering the boards and assembling them:
Resources
The PHNX is open-source but is also available as a kit:
- https://github.com/sini6a/phnx
- PHNX product page shipped from Sweden
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Uw6cO_Igg
Published on Thu 2nd May 2024. Featured in KBD #164 (source).
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