Split Banana The wireless Split Banana by u/dapperrogue is another take on his Banana macropad.
KBD.news Published September 16, 2022
Last year, Dan Bostian aka dapperrouge released the Banana , an open-source, 3d-printed,, handwired macropad – I successfully resisted to feature it back then because I try to avoid posting meme boards.
However, I'm short on content this week, and Dan released the Banana Split recently.
I cut my Banana macropad in half. Also open source, also 3d printed, also deliciously fruit-themed… but now split and wireless! This time around, it even has a PCB – dapperrogue.
Obviously, this is still a meme project but at least split, even if I wouldn't call it ergonomic – maybe if the curvature would be reversed or the cable put on the other side.
(As fellow Redditor AuthenticDanger pointed out, there was a 60% PCB by the same Banana Split name and sold by TheVanKeyboards .)
Resources
Files (STLs, Gerbers) and instructions are available on GitHub: https://github.com/dbostian/bananasplit
And the original unsplit project: https://github.com/dbostian/banana
It's worth checking out both repos even if you don't care the files because of the disastrous puns in the Q&A.
Published on Fri 16th Sep 2022. Featured in KBD #95 (source ).
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