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Split Fire

Ahmad Anshori shared Split Fire, a single-MCU handwired split keyboard with VGA connectors and joystick.

KBD.news
Published November 9, 2023

Inspired by Joe Scotto's ScottoSplit, Ahmad Anshori aka anz507 shared his keyboard with single RP2040 MCU, beefy VGA connectors, plus an additional analog joystick.

The joystick acts as a mouse with left and right click buttons (micro switches).

Specs

• 36 keys (5x3+3)
• handwired
• Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040
• joystick module
• VGA connectors

Resources

• https://github.com/anz507/split_fire

Published on Thu 9th Nov 2023. Featured in KBD #143 (source).

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