| cheapis | bgkeeb | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 10 | |
| 62 | 83 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 4.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | 7 months ago | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cheapis
Posts with mentions or reviews of cheapis.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-25.
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Unibody/Unsplit/Monoblock Cheapino alternative?
I was thinking something along the lines of the cheapis, but not held together by the MCU and made of one PCB.
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Cheapino: the cheapest split?
technically, cheapest for several fab shops is if you can get PCB under 100mm × 100mm (ex. Cheapis and bgkeeb)
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What are the best designs to cheap out? E.g. Reviung34 only needs 1 controller.
If you're looking for something very cheap /u/PM_ME_YOUR_MAINFRAME recently posted their Cheapis keyboard.
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Recommend me a 34 keys DIY split keyboard for my use case.
PCB: Which PCB is good for me? A margin-space keys keyboard or no-margin-space keyboard? In the 1st photo of the Sweep, there is no margin space between keys. However, Urchin and Cheapis have margin space between keys. I am using Thinkpad X1 Carbon and Framework Laptop. And I am more comfortable with a keyboard with margin spaces between keys. However, I want to know the benefit of the no-margin-space keyboard, and how easy it's to get used to.
- Cheapis! A very cheap alternative to ferris and sweep. Good for experimenting with a 34 key layout.
bgkeeb
Posts with mentions or reviews of bgkeeb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-31.
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Recommendations for a 34 key split keyboard?
Baby Groot Keyboard ( https://github.com/sadekbaroudi/bgkeeb ) Fits in the cheap 100mm*100mm offers with most PCB manufacturers.
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Cheapino: the cheapest split?
technically, cheapest for several fab shops is if you can get PCB under 100mm × 100mm (ex. Cheapis and bgkeeb)
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Is this layout dumb?
as a comparison, bgkeeb is another 100×100mm board that manages to fit everything in using MX spacing
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What are the best designs to cheap out? E.g. Reviung34 only needs 1 controller.
https://github.com/sadekbaroudi/bgkeeb should be fairly cheap to produce. I ordered some from JLC and they cost about 4$. Plates came in at 6$ although you could probably just solder the switches without a plate.
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my new bgkeeb is great fun
There is a choc supported version, although I'm not sure it's choc spaced: https://github.com/sadekbaroudi/bgkeeb/releases/tag/v2.0-choc
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Bgkeeb keyboard build completed
This is my latest mechanical keyboard build project, called bgkeeb(baby groot keyboard), made by /u/sadekbaroudi .
- Help with designing a reversible choc hotswappable PCB
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Choc compatible bgkeeb
This is the bgkeeb
- bgkeeb - cheap (or free!) split pcb with a lot of features! see post comment for details
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cheapis and bgkeeb you can also consider the following projects:
cheapino
keyboard-labs - Repo with my PCB designs and keyboard firmware
CrowBoard - Single Board 34/36 Keyboard
sweep36
zmk-config-nine - ZMK config and keymap for the Nine keyboard
kotonoha_keyboards - awesome mechanical keyboard ( 30% )
cantor - Cantor keyboard, a 42 key diodeless split keyboard.
qmk_firmware - Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
musubi - Super thin 38 key split keyboard using Kailh X switches
reversible-kicad - Reversible footprints for KiCad
satpad - 30% ortholinear keyboard
Keebio-Parts.pretty - Various KiCAD footprints for mechanical keyboard parts