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The rISOtho

The rISOtho is an ortholinear-ISO mashup by _eLRIC.

KBD.news
Published August 15, 2021

As I did not found some ortho layouts that suited me, I decided to design my own. Thus, the rISOtho was born [..] – _eLRIC

The author wanted to stay close to the standard ISO layout, but minimize the number of rows and columns which led to no dedicated F-keys (only through layers).

Currently, the keyboard runs KMK on a Pico.

Git repo with Gerbers: https://github.com/elric91/rISOtho

Published on Sun 15th Aug 2021. Featured in KBD #39 (source).

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