Projects The Cardinal is a wireless low-pro split by Painterman, supporting a roller encoder and 5-way switch.
AWKB by wj-zhe is a 36-key split keyboard with trackball, driven by a Xiao RP2040.
Peacock is a big standalone QMK trackpad shared by George Norton.
Ian MacLarty shared his IK keyboard, an open-source split with KS-33 switches and ZSA Voyager vibes.
Tschibo's idea manifested as an astonishing open-source PCB: Chaotist is an ergoish 40% keyboard.
Diego talks about how he made the custom wooden keyboard case with LED light bar.
Claude of Kea Workshop shared the files of his Rhino Pad, a macropad for CAD work.
John Riggles published his DELPHI, an "ergolinear" low-pro orthoish split.
Penk Chen's Rasti is a retro-futuristic laptop inspired by the iconic GRiD Compass – with his custom mechanical keyboard and keycap set.
SirFodds created a gasket-mounted unibody case for the Corne keyboard.
Pabile published the files of the P60, a 5x12 ortholinear keyboard with RGB and encoder.
Zach Taylor shared his goshawk, a 3D printed, handwired split with only one controller and battery.
BFB_Workshop's Compaq'ed is an ortholinear replacement PCB for the Cherry G80-11800.
DreaM117er shared his MagWave44, a Dactyl Skeleton derivative ergo split with magnetic tenting.
Brostafarian open sourced the keycap that plays Doom.
Takashi shared the Gerbers of his Snowflake macropad.
Andrea Varotto shared the files of his Cornepad, a unibody keyboard with a numpad in the center.
Joe Scotto made a streamdeck: the ScottoDeck is handwired and diodeless.
The manifold is a handwired keyboard in a 3D printed IBM SSK-like case. Designed by _galile0.
The Lynxware CAT is a set of split input devices built with mouse switches, open sourced by Ape_Devil of Lynxware.
Penk Chen's Rasti64 is a 64-key, low-profile board sporting the author's custom keycap set.
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 is a 3D printed split keyboard with a staggered Alice-like layout – designed by keeb_carving.
The wireless unibody Duet is Evgenii Vilkov's latest keyboard project and travel companion.
The unibody Ch55p34 by Alex Miller uses the CH552T MCU, and it runs on FAK firmware.
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