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SweepyWay Split Keyboard

A truly ergonomic, begginner friendly keyboard.

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Features

• Beginner friendly
  • Abundant keys, but in non disruptive places.
• Truly ergonomic
  • Aggressive column stagger, like Ferris Sweep, to match how fingers are staggered.
  • Choc V1 keys
    • Very low actuation force switches available (example: nocturnal)
    • Low profile (seamless use without handrest, easier to adjust height without an adjustable desk)
    • ChocV1 spacing (reach the outer columns with less over-stretching)
  • Tenting, negative tilting, adjustable height and hand rest solutions
• Energy efficient
  • Nice!nano optimised, but any promicro should work (bottom up)
  • Nice!view support
  • No leds
• Accident prepared
  • Controller far away from accidental splash zones,
  • Power switch for transport
  • No metal plates to help prevent static discharge from friying the keyboard
  • Hotswappable battery, switches, keycaps, controller, and case. Replace anything that breaks or you dislike.
    • You can even remove the components and use them with a different pcb.
• Easy to modify (Declarative design done via yaml)
  • Layout is declared using Ergogen.
  • Uses Ergogen to translate YAML to a KiCad PCB and plate files for FR-4 fab or laser cutting
  • Uses kicad-automation-scripts and FreeRouting to automatically route the traces on the PCB
  • Uses KiKit to render PCB previews and production-ready Gerber files

Build Status

How to modify it

If you would like to modify this:

• fork it
• change ergogen/config.yaml to your liking
• reactivate github workflows
• reactivate github pages at https://github.com/your-name/your-repo/settings/pages, choose github actions instead of a branch
• push your changes; the build.yml GitHub Workflow will pick it up, autoroute and generate Gerbers, all in a zip file. See https://github.com/soundmonster/samoklava/actions
• or:
  • make sure to have Docker CLI and NodeJS installed
  • run make setup clean all
  • check the output folder for KiCad PCBs and Gerbers
• you can find the latest build artifacts here

See the workflow or the Makefile for more details.

Credits

• mxooaar for peaking my interest in actually building my idea for a keyboard
• christianselig caldera keyboard for showing that creating a custom keyboard was reasonably easy
• Ergogen for the awesome tool for building most of the keyboard
• Soundmonster Samaklova Keyboard for automatic electronic routing
• tbaumann typematrix for automatic documentation, and example of how to use celoide ergonomic footprints
• Celoide for the library of additional ergogen footprints for more parts.

Disclaimer

Work in progress!

Important

Only connect battery if a nice!nano board is used!