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Projects

Cardinal

The Cardinal is a wireless low-pro split by Painterman, supporting a roller encoder and 5-way switch.

AWKB - A Weird Keyboard

AWKB by wj-zhe is a 36-key split keyboard with trackball, driven by a Xiao RP2040.

Peacock trackpad

Peacock is a big standalone QMK trackpad shared by George Norton.

IK keyboard

Ian MacLarty shared his IK keyboard, an open-source split with KS-33 switches and ZSA Voyager vibes.

The Chaotist

Tschibo's idea manifested as an astonishing open-source PCB: Chaotist is an ergoish 40% keyboard.

Wooden keyboard case with LED bar

Diego talks about how he made the custom wooden keyboard case with LED light bar.

Rhino Pad

Claude of Kea Workshop shared the files of his Rhino Pad, a macropad for CAD work.

DELPHI

John Riggles published his DELPHI, an "ergolinear" low-pro orthoish split.

Rasti Computer

Penk Chen's Rasti is a retro-futuristic laptop inspired by the iconic GRiD Compass – with his custom mechanical keyboard and keycap set.

Unibody Corne case

SirFodds created a gasket-mounted unibody case for the Corne keyboard.

P60

Pabile published the files of the P60, a 5x12 ortholinear keyboard with RGB and encoder.

Goshawk

Zach Taylor shared his goshawk, a 3D printed, handwired split with only one controller and battery.

Compaq'ed

BFB_Workshop's Compaq'ed is an ortholinear replacement PCB for the Cherry G80-11800.

MagWave44

DreaM117er shared his MagWave44, a Dactyl Skeleton derivative ergo split with magnetic tenting.

Doom keycap

Brostafarian open sourced the keycap that plays Doom.

Snowflake

Takashi shared the Gerbers of his Snowflake macropad.

Cornepad

Andrea Varotto shared the files of his Cornepad, a unibody keyboard with a numpad in the center.

ScottoDeck

Joe Scotto made a streamdeck: the ScottoDeck is handwired and diodeless.

Manifold

The manifold is a handwired keyboard in a 3D printed IBM SSK-like case. Designed by _galile0.

Lynx CAT

The Lynxware CAT is a set of split input devices built with mouse switches, open sourced by Ape_Devil of Lynxware.

Rasti64

Penk Chen's Rasti64 is a 64-key, low-profile board sporting the author's custom keycap set.

Ocreeb MK2

Salim Benbouziyane shared the files of his Ocreeb MK2, a modular macropad system exploring the idea of a custom magnetic connector that lets you attach all sorts of external modules.

Sally

Sally is a 3D printed split keyboard with a staggered Alice-like layout – designed by keeb_carving.

Duet

The wireless unibody Duet is Evgenii Vilkov's latest keyboard project and travel companion.

Ch55p34

The unibody Ch55p34 by Alex Miller uses the CH552T MCU, and it runs on FAK firmware.

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