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The Flea

A new member of Jim Merricks White's 30% bugs family: the Flea.

KBD.news
Published December 4, 2021

Inspired by David Barr's Hypergolic, Jim published the latest design in his series of 30% split keyboards with various levels of splay.

The splay is a little different from the Midge and the Mosquito, with none between the index and middle finger and an extra 5 degrees between the ring and pinkie. This pushes the pinkie out a little bit while also pulling the thumb in. The thumb cluster has a slightly inverted splay to match – jamesmnw.

Source files for the Flea are available on GitHub: https://github.com/jimmerricks/bugs/tree/master/pcbs/flea.

In addition, you can find a few words about the keymap in this thread.

Published on Sat 4th Dec 2021. Featured in KBD #55 (source).

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