Splaynck The Splaynck by kIt5uN3FP is a 40% unibody keyboard with symmetrical stagger.
KBD.news Published January 31, 2023
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Inspired by RominRonin's Katana60, kIt5uN3FP aka Maker-Gitsune published his handwired, 3D-printed 40% keyboard with symmetrical stagger: the Splaynck .
I couldn't find [a mechanical keyboard] that was exactly what I wanted, so I made it myself. I was inspired by the SICK-68 and the Katana60. It has gotten me through a semester (with coding) and ~10k words of prose amongst other things – kIt5uN3FP.
Specs
40% (45 keys)
no stabilizers
Symmetrical, isometric stagger
handwired
If you are interested in these mirrored symmetrical layouts, you should check out my interview with RominRonin , Takeshi Nishio's Nora or the Infernum . But even Ottimo's Salisbury-1859.html .
Resources
Published on Tue 31st Jan 2023. Featured in KBD #113 (source ).
Related Takeshi Nishio 's
Sandy is a multi-PCB approach to mimic a keywell on his Jones keyboard.
The
Pyramidka is a 3d printed, handwired, 40% keyboard shared by
aroum .
Ottimo 's
Salisbury is a nice 35% keyboard with symmetric layout. Built by
wayduh .
Grezeh 's
Larva keyboard is a Katana style symmetric layout with combined Latin+Cyrillic keymap in mind.
Mangokitty published the files of the
Tanto , a 40% with Katana-stlye symmetric layout.
Bluetooth low profile board with symmetrical stagger by
SouthPawEngineer . Included solar trickle charging, an encoder, and a nav switch.
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