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Swweeep

The swweeep is an open source, wireless only split keyboard with nice!view support. Committed by u/sadekbaroudi.

KBD.news
Published December 1, 2022

The swweeep was created after the sweeeeep as a wireless alternative. Given the nice!nano has two less GPIO pins than the Elite-C, Sadek had to remove the data pin (and therefore TRRS). So this is wireless only.

So, to keep the silliness going, this has an extra W for the wireless only, and 3 Es for the 3 extra required pins on the nice!nano – Sadek Baroudi.

Given it's a wireless only build, it made sense to add nice!view support, since it consumes much less power than the typical OLED. That meant that it would consume one too many GPIO pins. In the spirit of low power consumption, removing per key RGB was a natural decision, leaving it with just enough GPIOs for this board.

Resources

• https://github.com/sadekbaroudi/sweep36#swweeep

Published on Thu 1st Dec 2022. Featured in KBD #105 (source).

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