Pockey

Pockey

An ultra-low-profile wireless split keyboard built around ultra-thin Cherry MX switches. Pockey follows the Apple Magic Keyboard design philosophy — including the gentle 4° typing tilt — for a slim, unobtrusive desk presence. Each half packs into a closed sandwich: the two halves are magnetically collapsible and snap together when stacked on top of one another, making the whole keyboard pocketable and travel-ready.

Features

• Ultra-low-profile chassis — millimeters thick on the desk
• Ultra-thin Cherry MX switches for proper tactile/clicky feel without the height
• Apple Magic Keyboard-inspired industrial design — including a 4° typing tilt
• 30-key layout
• Wireless — months of battery life on a single charge thanks to a low-power MCU and aggressive sleep
• Magnetically collapsible halves — stack one on top of the other and the magnets pull them flush together for transport

Status

Functionally complete — finishing touches remain before fabrication (see "Known gaps" below).

Schematic recovery note

Pockey.kicad_sch and LeftMatrix.kicad_sch were missing from the working directory at the time this repo was created — they were lost sometime after January 2025, and the three most recent backups (dated 2026-04-16) no longer contained them either.

They were restored from KiCad/backups/Pockey-2025-01-22_173850.zip — the last backup that still contained the real schematic files. The restored schematic is dated 2025-01-20 14:26 internally. Any schematic edits between that date and when the file went missing are not recoverable.

Folder layout

Pockey/
├── KiCad/              KiCad 7+ project — open Pockey.kicad_pro
│   ├── Pockey.kicad_pcb         Main board layout
│   ├── Pockey.kicad_sch         Top-level schematic (restored from backup)
│   ├── LeftMatrix.kicad_sch     Switch matrix sub-sheet (restored from backup)
│   ├── Pockey.kicad_pro         KiCad project file
│   ├── Pockey.kicad_prl         Local KiCad state
│   ├── fp-info-cache            KiCad footprint cache
│   ├── backups/                 Dated snapshots — incl. the one the schematic was recovered from
│   └── Pockey-backups/          KiCad auto-backup folder (created on project reopen)
├── Renders/            Pockey_2025-Jan-21 CAD render of populated PCB
├── 3D/                 Pockey.step — mechanical model of the board + case
├── Fabrication/        PCB outline DXFs (V2 = previous, V3 = current)
└── JLCPCB/             Empty — gerbers not yet generated

Known gaps

• No gerbers / JLCPCB order files. JLCPCB/ is an empty placeholder.
• No BOM / pick-and-place files.
• Only one render — the Jan 2025 CAD export above. No WIP photos, no rendered keycap variants.
• No printable case STLs — only the .step source is included.
• No sub-schematic kicad_pro for LeftMatrix — only the .sch file was recovered.
• Excluded from the copy: macOS ._* AppleDouble metadata files and the three "bad" 2026-04-16 backup zips that did not contain the real schematic.