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Skywatch is a nice orthoish monoblock split by Özkan Çelik.

KBD.news
Published September 14, 2023

Özkan Çelik (aka ozkan/celikozkan) shared the source files of his Skywatch, a monoblock split with an orthoish arrangement and offset pinky column. Announced earlier in July, this 36% keyboard is powered by an on-board RP2040, and comes with OLED and hotswap support.

Designed to be manufactured and assembled by common PCBA services – Özkan.

Specs

• 36 keys (3x5+3)
• hotswap or soldered MX switches
• Raspberry Pi RP2040 MCU
• USB-C mid-mount connector
• 10x addressable (WS2812) underglow RGB LEDs
• 128x64 OLED display
• optional Pimoroni trackball

The circuitry of this keyboard is based on the 0xB2 - splinky board by plut0nium.

Resources

• https://github.com/ozkan/skywatch

Published on Thu 14th Sep 2023. Featured in KBD #135.

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