Silakka44 Squalius-cephalus shared the split Silakka44 with reversible hotswap PCB.
KBD.news Published May 14, 2024
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Juho T. from Turku (aka Squalius-cephalus ) published 'Silakka44 , a RP2040 based column staggered split keyboard with 42 keys and encoders. The PCB uses hotswap sockets, and just like the author's previous Silli41 , the design was inspired by that of the REVIUNG41 (and also the Corne keyboard this time).
The PCB supports MX style switches, 5-pin ones included.
By the way, "silakka" means Baltic herring in Finnish.
Specs
42 keys (6x3+3 per half, plus rotary encoder)
MX, hotswap
reversible PCB
rotary encoder
Pi Pico (RP2040)
Resources
Published on Tue 14th May 2024. Featured in KBD #165 (source ).
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