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Sweep keyboards

Sweep is a family of Ferris-derivatives featuring daughterboards instead of onboard controllers.

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Published October 4, 2021
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This is another project I missed at the time of publication…

The Sweep family by David Philip Barr consists of seven models at the time of writing this. https://github.com/davidphilipbarr/Sweep

Fellow redditer Kyek has a build video here:

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Published on Mon 4th Oct 2021. Featured in KBD #46 (source).


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