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So few months ago I made a 60ish% split row staggered keyboard. I wanted to drop the size to actually be the size of an A6 notebook/paper. I finally got back to this keyboard last week after a busy season. Here's the finished keyboard!! I'm really happy with it and it feels so clean. Only thing I'd honestly want to improve would be the wiring and better switches (good low profile switches are quite expensive where I'm from)

Updates:

- swapped from regular RP2040 to RP2040 Zero

- Changed position of the microcontroller to be in the inner part instead of outer portion of the keyboard

... and that's pretty much all I changed. I simply reused the wiring and components from my first version. It's a very simple keyboard but I love it for how compact and clean it is :)

Here's a gdrive link to all the files and a bit of a documentation if anyone wants: gdrive link

(version 1)

A little background yap:

I've always wanted a portable keyboard that I could just bring around and also wanted to try out how using split keyboards agai. Normally I would see the portable but ortholinear split keyboards. I tried making one before and mehn I did not like it. I know it's difficult to get over that curve to properly use it and I didn't have the commitment to relearn ortholinear. So fast forward to now, I decided that I want to try a row staggered split keyboard.

Now to the keyboard itself...

This is a staggered split 60 ish percent keyboard.

Some specs:

- 2 RPI Pico controllers

- Wired

- USB-C interconnect

- slightly larger than an A6 paper/notebook

Managed to make it portable where the main frame is around 9mm only but with the keycaps it's around 15mm which I still hope to minimize if I do make future iterations.

1 thing I really want to change about this is the keycaps. I want to have a black keycaps set on this with legends (since I'm still not so used to split keyboards) and also maybe reprint some parts cause as you see I kinda messed up my bottom part for the left side. But yah wanted to share this cause I feel quote proud of making it :))