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IXKB 60% Ortholinear with a Joystick

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This 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.