IXKB 60% Ortholinear with a Joystick
Posted onThis is the most complicated keyboard I've ever designed and built so far:

- Custom hot swappable PCB built around an nrf52 module, all components smd mounted, no RGBs.
- Power/data through usb-c but the main goal is to use it wirelessly over BLE
- Brass plate with flex cuts
- The body is made of two black anodized CNC'd aluminum parts that are bolted together
- The star of the show is an outrageous Grayhill 67C joystick, that doubles up as a push button rotary encoder. The Joystick cap is modeled after a fluted Davies 1900h knob, but with a skirt to make it more joystickable (also made out of black anodized aluminum).
- Zilent V2 switches
- SA keycaps in cream
I have a small USB HID listener installed on my Mac that is controlled by the joystick and then relays the instructions to my pan/tilt camera mount.
