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Proteus67

A displaced ortho by James Gzowski: Proteus67 – with encoder.

KBD.news
Published November 11, 2023

Fellow redditor James Gzowski (aka Flexyjerkov/gzowski) shared Proteus67, a 66-key monoblock split(?) ortholinear keyboard with displaced halves and offset bottom row, plus a rotary encoder in the middle (the 67th key).

Guess I should give some info about it, it's my own board design based on what I like with both the Planck ortho boards and my Lily58 – Flexyjerkov.

If you like this layout, you may check out the works of weteor and wayduh too.

Features

• 14x5 layout (33 keys per hand)
• MX, soldered
• Rotary encoder in the middle
• 13cm/130mm space between home position F/J keys
• Underglow LEDs, angled 90 degrees to provide light to edges

Resources

• https://github.com/gzowski/Proteus67

Published on Sat 11th Nov 2023. Featured in KBD #143 (source).

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