owl
kicad-kbplacer
| owl | kicad-kbplacer | |
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| 4 | 4 | |
| 9 | 296 | |
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| 4.5 | 9.5 | |
| 5 months ago | 3 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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owl
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My growing 40% collection
Here are the last 14 weeks of frustration, 3d printing, and soldering. I ended up with 8 new boards: 2 draculads (one wireless), a TBK mini, Skeletyl (wireless), Reviung34 (wireless), Owl (wireless), and 2 of my own designs that I call Unisplay made from acrylic and birch plywood (handwired with Amoebas). I still have some spare pcbs and plates for building an Owl if anyone wants them.
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Yet another 5x3 + 3 split keyboard: the Owl
Allow me to indroduce [the Owl](https://github.com/sapristi/owl), yet another 5x3 + 3 keyboard !
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Yet another split 5x3 + 3 : the Owl keyboard
Allow me to indroduce the Owl, yet another 5x3 + 3 keyboard ! This is a modified version of the rae-dux, the layout being the same, except with MX spacing. As for the rae-dux, it is wireless only.
kicad-kbplacer
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KiCad plugin for mechanical keyboard design
You can see it in action in tests here (remember to expand rows too see results) or by some examples here
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Let's Design a Keyboard with Ergogen v4: Introduction – FlatFootFox
I developed something similar (PCB only, no cases) as KiCad plugin: https://github.com/adamws/kicad-kbplacer - it uses layouts from keyboard-layout-editor.com as input.
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Been working on this one for a while
Once you get the hang of that, you can try using a tool to automate the key positioning stuff. There's a tool that repositions your keys given a KLE json (https://github.com/adamws/kicad-kbplacer and I used to use one called "Keyboard Layouter"), and there's a tool to actually generate the skeleton project for you as well (https://github.com/jeroen94704/klepcbgen). Just make sure you have a hang of KiCAD, footprints, symbols, etc before you dive too deep.
What are some alternatives?
trochilidae - A from-scratch recreation of the Hummingbird keyboard using ergogen
Keyboard-Layout-Editor-for-Blender - Allows you to import keyboard layouts into blender and render them in 3d
Wubbo - 34-key split keyboard with pinky cluster
dactyl-configurator - Generate Dactyl keyboard designs from your browser.
ergogen - Ergonomic keyboard layout generator
keyboard-tools - Tools for mechanical keyboard design
rae-dux - Generated keyboard
ergoslab - Design files for a 52-key, split, columnar staggered mechanical keyboard
om-keyboard
corney-island - An Ergogen-based, autogenerated version of foostan's crkbd (Corne) split keyboard
fluxpad - Analog keypad with hall effect switches and rapid trigger for osu!
dactyl-keyboard - Dactyl-ManuForm, a parameterized ergonomic keyboard translated into Python including a cadquery / Open CASCADE implementation.