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Thorium

Thorium is a small ortholinear split keyboard by note96e.

KBD.news
Published October 10, 2023

The design files and documentation of Thorium, this cute split ortho have been published by note96e.

It's wireless via Xiao nRF52840s, and thanks to the sub-100mm PCB, it's relatively cheap to manufacture.

Features

• ortholinear, split, 34 keys
• MX switches, hotswap (only)
• wireless
• dongle
• small PCB (96mm x 77mm)
• 3D printed cases and plates
• Lipo battery (260mAh)
• Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840
• ZMK Firmware

Resources

• https://github.com/note96e/thorium

Published on Tue 10th Oct 2023. Featured in KBD #139 (source).

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