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Quetzal

KeyboardDweebs' open-source Quetzal is not the usual 100% keyboard you'd expect.

KBD.news
Published January 11, 2023

Quetzal by keyboarddweebs – continuing naming his boards after bird species – has a 100%ish layout, but with a monoblock angled body and the numpad on the left.

This is my first commission. I call it the Quetzal. it's open source! more details in the comments – keyboarddweebs.

The board uses a Pico Zero MCU and uses a Japanese duplex matrix to accommodate such a small controller. The firmware for now is PRK because of its built-in duplex matrix support.

Resources

• Quetzal github repo

Published on Wed 11th Jan 2023. Featured in KBD #111 (source).

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