I’ve been working on a design for a split keyboard that is a hybrid between a Corne and a Sofle.
So fair the electrical and software aspects work, I still need to sort out the chassis.
Some features:
- Efficient backlight circuit (at 100% it uses 20mA)
- Custom MBK Choc caps from fkcaps.com (the glow is awesome)
- ~250mAh battery (still low profile as there’s a hole in the PCB for the battery)
- Dual EVQ encoders
- Fully wireless using Nice Nanos
- The layout has MacOS and Windows modes
- Choc spacing
Once I’ve got the chassis done and I’ve cleaned everything up a bit I’ll open source it.
Here’s a preview of the chassis design so far:
Looks super nice. Why did you decide on this design?
Thanks.
I took hand measurements using the following:
As it turns out the Corne is very close to my best layout.
I like the Corne, except it has no backlight, arrows are not very convenient (hence scrollers). I also move between Mac and windows, the extra modifiers on the Sofle make that easier.
In the end I’ve basically got a Sofle/Corne hybrid with scrollers and a backlight.
