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Projects

Poly Keyboard

The Poly Keyboard by thpoll has tiny OLED displays in each keycap to showcase the actual function of the keys.

Cast aluminum keyboard case

earth_hair made a moon-themed cast aluminum keyboard case for a design and manufacturing class.

Phase keyboard

Kyria stagger, Corne thumb cluster, Ferris-inspired electronics: Phase by mjpauly.

Rocksolid prototype

Rocksolid is a collab between tenstaana and fingerpunch.xyz: a mashup of their Chunky and Rock on keyboards.

Macropad dump

Three macropad projects have been published recently: the VoidPad 9S1E by Tuxic, the POSpad by _vastrox_, and Bitdrive made a case for the Spin.

Ergo S-1

The Ergo S-1 by Wizarddata is a wireless concave split keyboard with integrated wrist rest and free case files.

freaku4X

A 4x10 ortho with a rotary encoder and LCD: freaku4X by sporewoh.

Ki board

Another wooden board, this time with a surprising layout: groyer418's Ki board.

Model D

Recreating the Model F look and feel: the Model D is a 40% Buckling springs keyboard built by crahamson.

Badger 2040 keypad

Andreas Känner took Pimoroni's RP2040-powered e-ink display and put it on a macropad.

Cocot46plus

Aki27's cocot46plus is a monoblock angled mechanical keyboard with a beefy 34mm trackball, rotary encoder, and OLED display.

Dactyl TypeSafe

This wireless vertical Dactyl TypeSafe was designed and shared by tewtham.

gurt-portable

The wireless gurt-portable is Gurtmail's first keyboard design.

Nora

Nora is a family of low-profile narrow-pitch keyboards designed by Takeshi Nishio.

Multi-profile macropad

Jim Jackson created a macropad with customizable profiles read from an SD card.

Pee-two

Pee-two is a 2-key macropad with optional rotary encoder. Source files shared by pabile.

Fiðrildi

Fiðrildi is a monoblock angled keyboard from Rivendell – designed by ButteredBread5255.

Lihis

This open-source split ortho PCB by Cedutus, named after a Finnish dish, is called Lihis.

µ10 keyboard

The µ10 or Micro10 by dj_edit is a small 28-key keyboard with a big spacebar.

Framedeck

Richard Sutherland's framedeck is his take on the slab style computers like the TRS-80 model 100 – using the Framework motherboard.

Wooden Alps keyboard

A wooden keyboard by the5andmany with Alps switches and hand-filed switch plate.

simplyKeeb S60ph

Geaz84's 3D printed simplyKeeb S60ph is a 60-key, hotswappable, handwired split keyboard.

cool640

Telzo2000's cool640, this ortho macropad/split supports controllers with both Pro Micro and Pico footprint.

Elephant42 panda

An update to illness72's original elephant42: palette-system shared elephant42 panda, a new version with an I/O expander.

Yggdrasil

LoyalPotato's open-source Yggdrasil is a 36-key split keyboard with some extreme pinky splay.

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