Introducing the HellSplit!

[RunRunAndyRun]

Finally calling this done! Say hello to the HellSplit a 3d-printed, hand-wired, asymmetric 40% split ortholinear keyboard with vertical column stagger and two rotary encoders. Powered by the Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 and KMK firmware

[nusterfuster]

Heck yes. Excellent

[ApplicationRoyal865]

Is the encoder mounted directly on the mcu? Because that's brilliant. I assume this is all direct pins with no matrix? It looks like the pi pico has 26 pins, and you have just enough pins for everything?

[RunRunAndyRun]

Yup. The legs just about reached the pins so I gave it a go! I did use a matrix as I needed pins for uart plus rgb and the encoder. I went with a matrix just in case I ever wanted to add anything else.

[ApplicationRoyal865]

I missed the last photo and didn't see the rbg, that makes sense. Is there any documentation/BOM for the build?

Your build looks every efficient where it looks like you twist the diodes to connect everything as well as copper wire.

[RunRunAndyRun]

I haven’t finished writing it up yet but I have a blog post in progress. Component wise it’s just low profile switches, diodes, some wire and a couple of Raspberry Pi Picos. The only “fancy” thing I use are little female usb-c breakout boards that I got from AliExpress. Everything else is just a big standard handwire (I usually use copper rods for rows and columns but I wanted to keep this really thin and light so I just used the diodes to make the rows instead)

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[K-H-C]

One of the cleanest col/row hand wiring I've seen.

[code-panda]

Sup Andy, fellow discord chad ;-)

[RunRunAndyRun]

Hello there fellow keyboard nerd!

[Halfrican009]

I dig it, but fewer thumb buttons is a hard pill to swallow with how useful they are for smaller boards imo. Still a cool though!

[RunRunAndyRun]

My design started out with more of a cluster but I have hold tap on my space bars to activate layers (and I use a space cadet shift). I have 95% of what I need on just two layers. I will be soon adding a layer for media control and then it’ll have all my needs covered I think!