Open-hardware keyboard maker Joe Scotto has unveiled his newest design, an eye catching ortholinear structure system with outsized spacebar and high-performance gaming switches — hiding beneath colourful Comedian Sans keycaps.
“The Scotto61 is a 61-key ortholinear keyboard with a 7u spacebar,” Scotto writes of the tenkeyless design, constructed to be comparatively compact. “It was designed and constructed as a Christmas present for my brother. Since he does a number of gaming, I went with Akko Crystal Silver switches as a result of they’ve a 1.6mm actuation level.”
Joe Scotto’s newest hand-wired keyboard is an eye catching present for a gaming brother. (📷: Joe Scotto)
Contained in the eye-catching 3D-printed case, which holds every of the 61 switches in place, the keyboard is powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico clone with a distinction: the system makes use of the identical dual-core Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller however packs a 16MB flash chip — together with an on-board user-addressable WS2812 RGB LED, a USB Kind-C connector, and a barely outsized board footprint in contrast with the unique.
That is removed from Scotto’s first hand-wired keyboard, in fact. The maker has a spread of designs together with a one-handed system impressed by the Frogpad, an ultra-thin wing-like structure, a single-microcontroller break up board, and one which has a secret to inform: it is really a mouse, powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller.
The keyboard is constructed utilizing high-performance fast-actuation switches, very best for gaming. (📷: Joe Scotto)
As with all of Scotto’s keyboards, the Scotto61 is hand-wired: there is not any printed circuit board, however as an alternative inflexible copper wiring is used to construct up the keyboard matrix. The rows and columns are then related to the microcontroller’s general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) pins and prepared by a QMK-based firmware.
Extra info on the keyboard is obtainable on Scotto’s web site, whereas the design — and all prior designs — is obtainable on GitHub below the reciprocal Inventive Commons Attribution-NoCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.