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Sai44

A wireless split with katana layout: Sai44 by leafflat.

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Published February 25, 2025
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The Sai44 is a wireless split keyboard with katanaish layout, designed and shared by leafflat. It comes with a dongle with display.

At first I was going to call this board Banana Katana and have a banana icon inlay somewhere on the board. As I was working on this project, the name just didn't feel right so I went back to the drawing board with it. I landed on sai44. The reasoning: The Katana board is a single piece, a single sword, where as this one was going to be a split, dual wielded if you will. So the Sai) was the logical choice in my opinion – leafflat.

Features

  • 44 keys, split katana layout
  • MX, hotswap
  • nice!nano
  • reversible PCB
  • dongle with display, ZMK

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Published on Tue 25th Feb 2025. Featured in KBD #187 (source).

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