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Metal Boston

Pylon open-sourced the metal version of his Boston, a "compact 120% battleship".

FCS42S keyboard

Ho's FCS42S is a split keyboard with adjustable per-column offsets and pinky splay.

SlabV

SlabV by brickbots is a 36% keyboard with stacked acrylic construction and silicone gaskets.

Red Herring solenoid edition

Ming-Gih Lam updated the Red Herring PCB with an on-board solenoid.

Bolt Industries Pico 87

An open-source tenkeyless mechanical keyboard powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico and BMK, a custom Arduino IDE firmware.

The Chortyl

Jonathan Dart's Chortyl is an open-source scooped 34-key 3D-printed split.

Jonkey

Jonkey is an open-source split by SmashedTatoes, designed via ergogen.

OK35

OK35 is a split ortholinear keyboard designed by Y2ff – with exposed through-hole diodes arranged nicely at the top.

Monolith

The Monolith, designed by sincerelyredcape, is built around an industrial grade encoder – and weights 15kg…

Chonky Palmtop

The Chonky Palmtop by Daniel Norris is a cyberdeck with an integrated Corne.

Sporne

Krikun's fork of Joric's Jorne features space invader switches.

gTetris

Geri00's gTetris is a handwired project with great photolog.

Caduceus

Two new CircuitPython boards by SouthPawEngineer, called the Caduceus.

Track Beast

Third iteration of David Kincade's Track Beast – resin edition.

Cantor keyboard

Diego Palacios' Cantor is a 42-key diodeless split keyboard.

Rock On keyboard

Fingerpunch Keyboards' monoblock Rock On in a mesmerizing case by chewiedies.

Lumberelite

The LumberElite is a custom Lumberjack PCB by tj_shex modified to accommodate an Elite-C and OLED screen.

Krangle

The handwired Krangle by mjongerh has an intimidating amount of keys.

Charybdis Nano

Quentin's Charybdis family is extending with the Nano – with open-source case files.

Cool836pico

An angled monoblock Pico-based keyboard from m.ki. Optionally low-profile and open-source.

Ergozero

SouthPawEngineer's Ergozero runs KMK firmware on a tiny RP2040 Zero controller.

MooseDash and MooseChair

A modified ErgoDash and its armrest-mounted wireless iteration by Ataruno – with extensive documentation.

Ergopi

SouthPawEngineer made a set of Raspberry Pi powered keyboards – low-profile monoblocks for different tastes.

Unsplit Thumbs Up

Thumbs Up! turned into a monoblock by ak66666 – with one more level.

Buzzard keyboard

Christoph Rehmann's Buzzard is a well-documented 40-key split keyboard with splay and trackpoint.

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