Hawk - wireless direct-pin handwired hotswap split ergo keyboard
My latest and most advanced build. Key layout was 'found' with an adjustable testrig to suit my hands best. The carrier plate is 3D-printed and thus very light. To make the keyboard sit tight on the desktop and improve sound and feel, I moulded tin tenting wedges as weights with space for the 500mAh batteries and the BT Selector on the left half under the carrier plate. On top is an Alps 5-way multiswitch encoder, which also benefits from the 500g weight of the left half. The BT Selector with the four brass pushbuttons switches and 'displays' the BT chanel, so that I do not need a conventional electronic display. The whole board is built from scratch, I just used two small PCBs, one as stable base for the Alps and the second one inside the BT Selector to carry the tactile SMD switches and BAB70 SMD double diodes, which are neccessary to operate the selector switches parallel to the direct-pin (diodeless) wired MX switches.