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The Flea
A new member of Jim Merricks White's 30% bugs family: the Flea.
Published December 4, 2021
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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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