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Rolio V0.1

MickiusMousius made the design of the Rolio available – a 46-key split with horizontal encoder.

KBD.news
Published September 15, 2023

The Rolio V0.1 by MickiusMousius is the pre-release version of this cool split with roller encoder, nice!view display, and aluminum case.

I've been using it for a few weeks myself and its quite nice to use, particularly with the aluminium chassis (the GitHub repo has FDM and CNC designs) – MickiusMousius.

Specs

• 46 keys (6x3+5)
• low-profile Choc
• hotswap
• wireless via nice!nano
• nice!view Sharp LS011B7DH03 display
• EVQWGD001 rotary encoder

Version 1.0 is already underway: "The current model is nice, but there are a lot of improvements in the pipeline particularly regarding aesthetics."

Resources

• https://github.com/MickiusMousius/RolioKeyboard

Published on Fri 15th Sep 2023. Featured in KBD #135 (source).

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