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Xobdox
A 40%(ish) wireless low-pro split called xobdox – designed by Lost_Negotiation_830.
Published November 3, 2022
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Xiao Qin aka xqinx aka Lost_Negotiation_830 entered SeeedStudio's mechanical keyboard design contest with the Xobdox.
It's a 40%(~ish) split wireless keyboard with a single PCB design for both halves (reversible PCB), featuring Seeed XIAO BLE controllers, side buttons, encoders and configurable battery options.
Features
- 44/46/48 keys
- Reversible PCB
- Wireless (BLE) or Wired (USB)
- Hot swappable low profile switches
- Encoders
- Power switch
- 2 optional side push button
- 2 optional encoder switch
- Flexible configurations (2 encoder locations, top mount lipo battery or bottom mount 18350, 1u or 1.25u key caps on some keys)
While the project is not open source (yet?), there's a great project blog on hackster.io.
At the moment, there's only a PDF schematics in the hardware repo.
I am making some upgrades to the board so it can accept both MX and Choc switches, and after that I will upload the gerbers – xquinx.
Resources
Published on Thu 3rd Nov 2022. Featured in KBD #101 (source).
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