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The btrfly

The btrfly by SolidusHal is a Dactyl Manuform fork with joint halves and without the keywells (git, pics).

KBD.news
Published April 17, 2021

SolidusHal's handwired monoblock btrfly keyboard is like the dactly-manuform-mini but squished together at an angle and flattened.

I used a dactly-manuform-mini for a while, but found it annoying to travel with since it was both bulky and split. While this is still a bit bulky, it fits nicely in the ergotravel case I already have – SolidusHal.

More pictures here: https://github.com/SolidHal/btrfly-keyboard/tree/master/pictures

GitHub repo: https://github.com/SolidHal/btrfly-keyboard

Published on Sat 17th Apr 2021. Featured in KBD #22 (source).

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