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Smudge

Smudge is a custom 3D-printed keyboard design by Sandalmoth – handwired with curved keywell.

KBD.news
Published March 14, 2023

Sandalmoth shared this cute parametric and handwired split with keywell and about my favorite pinky stagger ;) – dubbed Smudge.

Well, I wanted to have both a design tailored to my hands, as well as a sleek looking case and the only option seemed to be to do it myself – Sandalmoth.

The designer started of with testing a bunch of key positions using a parametric scad design, modeled the final case in Blender, and used the scad to cut out the key positions in exactly the right spots.

Specs

• QT Py RP2040 controllers
• GX12 3or 4 pin aviator connectors
• handwired

Resources

• Smudge on Github

Published on Tue 14th Mar 2023. Featured in KBD #116 (source).

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