The btrfld
u/SolidusHal's btrfld is a quite unique foldable, low profile, tenting keyboard.
KBD.newsPublished April 27, 2022
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Pronounced "butter-fold", btrfld is the foldable, portable sibling of SolidusHal's btrfly keyboard introduced almost exactly a year ago.
This is a handwired prototype but the STLs are published.
Folding mechanism
The keyboard features a carefully crafted and pretty unique folding mechanism for better portability:

The btrfld's tenting mechanism
Features
- folds flat for portability
- ortho-ish layout
- 5-key dactyl-manuform-mini thumb cluster
- low-pro, flat, tented qwerty keys
- 6 extra mappable keys
- Bluetooth (optional)
GitHub repo with more photos: https://github.com/SolidHal/btrfld
Published on Wed 27th Apr 2022. Featured in KBD #76 (source).
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