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Wysteria

Wysteria is jwe's split keyboard with lots of features.

KBD.news
Published April 21, 2024

Fellow redditor _jwe_ shared Wysteria, a 36-key split keyboard with encoder, display, per-key RGB – generated via Ergogen.

Introducing Wysteria, my new 36-key keyboard. One for home-office, and one for work. I'd spent a long time looking, and couldn't find an existing PCB that had exactly what I wanted, so generated my own in Ergogen. In particular, heavy pinky stagger and a lateral pinky, instead of a top-row pinky, and encoders – jwe.

The keyboard has working firmware for both QMK and ZMK (with nice!view support and batteries under the MCU).

Specs

• 36 keys
• MX switches, hotswap
• Pro Micro footprint
• reversible PCB
• per-key RGB
• nice!nano/wireless/battery support
• QMK/ZMK

Notes: v0.3 has the thumb cluster diode traces incorrectly. The ergogen files have been corrected, you may start with those.

Resources

• https://github.com/j-w-e/wysteria

Published on Sun 21st Apr 2024. Featured in KBD #162 (source).

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