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Pteropus

Flying fox aka Pteropus – a unibody split keyboard open-sourced by hulapig.

KBD.news
Published March 26, 2023

The Flying fox / Pteropus is hulapig's first design, an angled single-piece (non-split) 36-key Miryoku-inspired keyboard with onboard controller and Type-c connector.

I really wanted to try the Miryoku layout, so I designed and build this keyboard and see if it is as efficient as it claims. I also wanted to make an ergonomic layout that fits my hands, so I printed other keyboard layouts, like Crowboard, Iris, Corne, and Kyria, and modified the geometry from there – hulapig.

Specs

• 36 keys (5x3+3 halves)
• MX, hotswap
• on-board STM32F072 microcontroller

Resources

• https://github.com/hulahermit/pteropus_keyboard

Published on Sun 26th Mar 2023. Featured in KBD #117 (source).

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