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crowkb_38

CrackerRobot's crowkb_38 is a low-pro ergo split with splay and a lower-positioned thumb cluster.

KBD.news
Published August 25, 2024

CrackerRobot (aka c-botz) keeps chopping off unnecessary keys from his Crowkb. After the 46-key variant, here is the ''crowkb_38 with some pinky keys removed.

The crowkb keyboards are split, staggered and splayed keyboards with low-placed thumb keys. I designed them because I felt a lot of the keyboards in this space have an uncomfortable thumb placement for my size of hands – CrackerRobot.

Features

• 38 keys
• Choc, hotswap or soldered
• splay
• reversible PCB
• Pro Micro footprint (nice!nano & nice!view)
• encoder

Resources

• https://github.com/c-botz/crowkb

Published on Sun 25th Aug 2024. Featured in KBD #173.

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