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Sotka

The Pohjola Works Sotka is an ortholinear split keyboard with an optional extra row.

KBD.news
Published January 14, 2023

Erkii aka ErkHal/Ergorius took his Pohjola Works Sotka, a split keyboard with an orthogonal layout and detachable extra row, to the recent Turku meetup.

Published in 2021, the PCB is reversible, and the board uses an RJ12 cable for serial communication between the halves.

Resources

• https://github.com/pohjolaworks/Sotka

Published on Sat 14th Jan 2023. Featured in KBD #111 (source).

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