Lotus-Keyboard VS awesome-split-keyboards

The normal version needs SK6812 mini leds, yours look like the mini-e variants. Mini-e has legs and is easier to solder but the pinout is different: https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58/issues/10

One option by my design. https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58

it's a https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58 that I soldered and assembled with DSA keycaps from YMDK and some JWK knockoffs tactile switches

Decided I'd finally had enough of the Nordic ISO layout and figured "why not just jump in the deep end?" and bought parts to make myself a Lotus58 Glow. (https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58)

https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58 -- start here. apart from the links i've posted in my details comment, i don't have any other. feel free to dm me if you want any help though. :)

Not OP, but I have the repository open because I'm also building one of these. You can find everything at https://github.com/TweetyDaBird/Lotus58.

Is a capacitor required for each rotary encoder that we put? The Lotus58 build guide suggests so, but I haven't seen it mentioned in other places, included the Sofle RGB build guide itself.

It's open source and needs to be built by oneself. You can find everything necessary on tweetys github

u/tweetydabird sells some kits for his lotus58 over at his tindie shop

I converted to Ortho keyboards with column stagger rather than row stagger and I haven't looked back. If you haven't, I suggest checking out /r/ErgoMechKeyboards for some great options. https://kbd.news/ is also a really good resource, as is https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards.

Check e.g. this github repository for examples of that type of keyboard. Better shell out some $$ and adjust to one of those now than to have tendon/joint/nerve damage for decades.

There are many ready-to-go ones in this list: https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards

You should consider adding links to the comparison site for split keyboard kit layouts, and perhaps the list of Awesome Split Keyboards. They're both good starting points for checking out what's out there, though the Awesome list can be a bit outdated by now.

Awesome Split Keyboards will give you an idea of how the boards look and links to vendors or open source projects (ie. sending Gerber files to a PCB fabricator of your choice)

Awesome Split Keyboards

Apologies for the incorrect image link. I assumed it could be edited afterwards. Btw here is the reference image link: https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards/blob/master/img/Ergotravel.jpg