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Pineapple60
Saoto Tsuchiya's Pineapple60 project is a set of ergo keyboard PCBs for ThinkPads – with trackpoint.
Published June 4, 2025
I'm pretty sure I've already featured this series, but can't find it anywhere. So the Pineapple60 and its variants are a set of keyboard PCBs by Saoto Tsuchiya aka saoto28. These are low-profile replacement ergo keyboards for ThinkPads, featuring a trackpoint.
They come in all kinds of flavors, with various layouts, supporting different switches and controllers.
The most recent design, the Pineapple60S, is an ultra-low profile Alice-ish format with scissors switches and on-board MCU. No KiCad files yet, but the author posted a photo (cover image on top).
The latest available design files you can find in the repo are from 2021, however, this one is the more promising layout: the Pineapple60-2, depicted above, features columnar stagger, a slight splay, and Pro Micro controller footprint.
Resources
The project have been around for years, so the Github repo is a bit chaotic due to the many variants:
Published on Wed 4th Jun 2025. Featured in KBD #192 (source).
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