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Shoedler54

A purely declarative split keyboard designed via ergogen: Shoedler54 by Simon Schödler.

KBD.news
Published February 5, 2026

Simon Schödler's (aka shoedler) Shoedler54 is a wireless low-profile split keyboard inspired by predecessors like the ZSA Voyager and Silakka54.

This project came to life as I wanted to get up to speed with ergogen.xyz. The main goal of was to build a keyboard using solely the declarative ergogen paradigm - including making a case. As such, the only thing that was done outside of ergogen was to route the PCB and flip one case half in the slicer – Simon.

Features

• 54 keys (6x4+3)
• Choc switches (V1 or V2), hotswap
• Promicro NRF52840 controllers
• reversible PCB
• 3D-printed case

The repo comes with an easy-to-print 18 mm keycap.

Resources

• https://github.com/shoedler/shoedler54

Published on Thu 5th Feb 2026. Featured in KBD #206 (source).

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