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SatPad

The SatPad (formerly: Cupcake) is an open-source 30% ortholinear keyboard/macropad designed by u/quirk.

KBD.news
Published July 1, 2022

Jason Hazel aka quirk designed this neat 30% ortho using ergogen.

In the announcement on r/mk it was called Cupcake ("because the Pancake2 was an inspiration") but comments pointed out it looks like a satellite so it's now SatPad.

I've been playing around with Ergogen and decided on a 30% that could double as a macropad as my learning project. I messed up on the OLED (missing VCC trace, socket rotated 180) but overall happy with my first attempt – quirk.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/jasonhazel/satpad

Published on Fri 1st Jul 2022. Featured in KBD #85 (source).

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