Open-hardware keyboard designer Joe Scotto has launched one other 3D-printable keyboard design, the Scotto69 (Good Version) — and this time has damaged with custom by designing a customized printed circuit board reasonably than wiring all of the switches by hand.
“Lately a buddy of mine wished a board from me,” Scotto explains of the keyboard’s origins, “and we labored collectively to land on a format we each appreciated. The board known as the Scotto69 and it is a conventional 4×12 ortholinear format with a numpad on the fitting, 5 macro keys on the left, and an possibility so as to add a [rotary] encoder. The board additionally incorporates a magnetic bar on the again to offer it a 5° typing angle.”
The place beforehand Scotto has designed his keyboard such that the mechanical switches are held in place in a 3D-printed framework and wired to the microcontroller by hand with flying leads, the Scotto69 opts for the extra typical strategy of mounting the switches right into a customized PCB — designed in KiCad and internet hosting an STMicroelectronics STM32F072CBT6 microcontroller operating the QMK firmware.
Scotto’s earlier, hand-wired keyboard designs embody the ultra-thin ScottoWing, a one-handed enter system impressed by the Frogpad,the unusual-layout ScottoKatana, and the ScottoDeck — the latter designed as an Elgato Stream Deck various and boasting eight programmable keys and two enter knobs — alongside a battery-powered Bluetooth-connected wi-fi keyboard dubbed the Scotto63. All have been launched for anybody to make underneath a Inventive Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
Scotto’s newest keyboard ditches the hand-wired switches in favor of a PCB designed in KiCad. (📷: Joe Scotto)
The Scotto69, although, is simply partially open: whereas Scotto has launched design and 3D print information for the keyboard’s housing, stabilizing plate, and keycaps, and precompiled firmware for the microcontroller, he has not launched design information for the PCB — as an alternative making it out there to buy on his internet retailer at €54.95 (round $61).
Extra data is out there on Scotto’s web site and in his Reddit publish; the 3D print information and firmware can be found on GitHub underneath the Inventive Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.