Keyboard Builders' Digest
Save 5% at Divinikey! Code: KBDNEWS
Keyboard Builders' Digest / Projects

The Flea

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

KBD.news
Published December 4, 2021
Creators! Feel free to tip me off about your keyboard related projects to bring them to 140K readers.

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.

Do you like this post? Share, donate, subscribe, tip me off!

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

Related

Protomic DataStealth

The Protomic DataStealth is an elusive monoblock split from the '90s, designed by Benjamin Rossen.

Black Ice ortho

Custom designed angled ortho by ashinything with 3D printed hot swap sockets.

Frame 48

Greg Mathews published his Frame 48, a handwired split keyboard with dedicated arrow cluster.

Fusion with supercap

Fusion by steven4012 updated with a supercap and solar charging.

Ursa Minor keyboard

Fellow Redditor u/scissor_rock_paper finished his custom split PCB design dubbed Ursa Minor.

Sally

Sally is a 3D printed split keyboard with a staggered Alice-like layout – designed by keeb_carving.
×
top