Peter Cock
Atemu
Bastian Greshake TzovarasSaw someone posting shit "AI"-generated t-shirt designs on the #ergomechkeyboard subreddit in order to make a buck. 🤦♂️
I made another #ErgoMechKeyboard, taking the ribbon cable idea for my Bivouac34, and the 32-key layout and a 5-way navigation button from my Bivvy16D #SplitKeyboard. This is my Goldilocks32 #MechanicalKeyboard - another diode-free design with a #GraphTheory based sparse scanning matrix https://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2026/03/goldilocks-30-to-32-key-keyboard.html
That’s two superficially very similar DIY #ErgoMechKeyboard prototypes on my desk right now, in green with KLP Lamé keycaps, and in red with Chicago Stenographer keycaps.
Both sets of #MechanicalKeyboard PCBs are just taped to a cardboard structure to test angles for comfort - about ~40 degree tenting (angle up from table) and ~40 yaw (angle between the halves).
The twin-PCB #ErgoMechKeyboard idea using #GoldFingers and a PCB edge connector ribbon cable works! My 6th #MechanicalKeyboard design - and one of the easiest to assemble with just an RP2040-Zero and hotswap sockets to solder.
I have not run out of new things I want to try yet 😅 https://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2026/02/two-tiny-10x10cm-pcbs-for-keyboards.html
Adam H. Sparks 
The LEDs certainly are brighter without the smoked colour of the Sunsets. The @catppuccin colours really stand out now.
Looks and types great. Love the Cherry Blossom/Plum Blossom combo. Really improves the feel of this board. Buttery smooth and sooo quiet!
Out with the not even old yet, in with the new. Replacing my Choc v1 Sunsets with Plum and Cherry Blossom switches from MoErgo. Super quiet. Not scratchy. Cherry Blossoms in outer columns, innermost columns and I ended up with them in the innermost thumb keys with the 1.5u caps too. Will see how I like that. I often found those “harder” with the bigger cap.
Keyboard is a Corne v4.1 from AstroErgo boards in Melbourne.
#ErgoMechKeyboard #MechanicalKeyboard #CRKBD #Corne #SplitKeyboard
OK they’re portable and flexible to get the most comfortable angles, but a DIY split #ErgoMechKeyboard has it’s downsides!
There’s Bluetooth pairing or janky cables to worry about (TRRS has a short circuit risk), two controllers to solder, trickier firmware, etc.
But what prompted this was the much higher risk of knocking one half off your desk! Only realised today, but when I chipped the corner of my Forager based keyboard this also looks to have broken the tiny #SeeedXiao reset button. That in turn leaves me no easy way to reflash the keyboard when my new #ZMK firmware isn’t working 😱
All in all, a mono body #MechanicalKeyboard with a split layout at a comfy angle seems like a safer bet for me… #SplitKeyboard
Regarding the other unfinished #MechanicalKeyboard on my desk: The TRRS sockets to finish soldering up this #ErgoMechKeyboard should arrive today - but I’ve only just noticed the 3.5mm cable I planned to use that came with my Corne #SplitKeyboard has only theee wires (like a standard headphone jack). This needs four wires for full duplex communication - so another delay waiting on parts 🤦♂️
I still don’t have the TRRS sockets to finish soldering this wired split #MechanicalKeyboard, so for now I’m testing it as two half keyboards and trying to find the best angles for the planned single piece follow up #ErgoMechKeyboard - here’s a cardboard prototype of a ~40 degree tended keyboard. It feels a bit too high up (could be lowered about 2cm), but usable…
