orch
A mostly ortholinear keyboard PCB that fits GMK keycaps. (by htpkbs)
trackbowl-mk2
The ball is the trackball (by jfedor2)
| orch | trackbowl-mk2 | |
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| 6 | 3 | |
| 5 | 154 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C++ | ||
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | - |
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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.
orch
Posts with mentions or reviews of orch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-05.
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Giving “Less, but better” caps another try
I wasn’t super into these keycaps at first, but decided to give them another shot and I like them so far. Keyboard is a custom build I designed and cable is from https://swiftcables.net/.
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New job, new keyboard
Yep! They’re here: https://github.com/htpkbs/orch
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Latest build of my "kinda ortho" PCB, now with rotary encoder
PCB is custom and open source, I call it the orch
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Keyboard Builders' Digest / Issue 12
The orch is a mostly ortho, GMK-friendly layout and PCB by u/oldoverholt with open source design (git & gallery).
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First custom PCB! Mostly ortholinear layout with GMK keycaps.
The PCB is my first time doing a full keyboard PCB and I did it in KiCad. The files and everything are open source and available here. The Keyboard PCB Guide here and the Designing a keyboard from scratch series of blog posts were both really helpful, along with the ATmega32U4 datasheet of course! I got the PCB fabricated by JLCPCB (the first order I made, I had forgotten to connect the rows to pins on the MCU lol).
trackbowl-mk2
Posts with mentions or reviews of trackbowl-mk2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-15.
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Custom Trackball Design
Edit Actually /u/jfedor has a build where the entire trackball is in the ball and that uses an Adafruit Feather bluetooth controller.
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Keyboard Builders' Digest / Issue 12
All the electronics is hidden inside this trackball by Jacek Fedoryński (video, git, blog post). (Posted by u/deekue.)
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An update on my DIY trackball project. All the electronics are inside the ball. The ball is the trackball.
Code and 3D models are on GitHub and here's a blog post with some more pictures and details.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing orch and trackbowl-mk2 you can also consider the following projects:
kad - Keyboard Automated Design (KAD) is a Golang library for designing mechanical keyboards
Acrylic_3D_KB - 3D keyboard made by lasercut acrylics
rp2040-pmw3360 - RP2040+PMW3360 PCB and code
dactyl-manu-tide - Dactyl Manuform with extra curvy and tight layout
J73K_keyboard - a 15*5 ortholinear keyboard
fnrow-pcb - KiCad files for the FnRow mechanical keyboard
trackball - Code for a trackball I'm building from scratch