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The Snowslide

The Snowslide is an open-source monoblock split by Geob-o-matic.

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Published October 7, 2022
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Geobert Quach aka Geob-o-matic published his Snowslide keyboard.

Ispired by Vitaly Volkov's Avalanche, the Snowslide is a monoblock split with thumb arc, OLED display and palm keys.

The Snowslide is an unibody split keyboard taking the Avalanche as inspiration for the extra pinky keys and the idea from Jesus Climent to move a thumb key to the palm location – Geobert.

By the way, the PCB was also done by Jesus Climent (creator of keyboards like the Atreis, Atreyu or Soufflé) as Geobert doesn't have the knowledge to do it.

After more than a year on Sofle RGB (without RGB), I felt that I was unhappy with it. Still an improvement from the Typematrix (being mechanical and programmable) but I was not convinced by the encoders and I was missing a few keys to be comfortable (I'm typing in Bépo, so I need the keys to avoid too much layers) and home row mod doesn't suit me (tried to tweak the timers but still doing typing error after a year is frustrating) – Geob-o-matic.

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Published on Fri 7th Oct 2022. Featured in KBD #98 (source).


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