Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Circuit Sculpture Keyboard

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Circuit Sculpture Keyboard

Image by [New-Concentrate6308] via redditDon’t worry, [New-Concentrate6308] is working on the GitHub for this final build of 2024, dubbed the GEMK_47. That stands for Grid Ergo Magnetic Keyboard, but I swear there are 48 keys.


What we’ve got here is a split ergo with an ortholinear layout. There’s a round screen and encoder on the left side, and a 35 mm trackpad on the right. There’s also space for some other round thing on this side, should you want another rotary encoder or whatever fits in place of the spacer.


Internally, there’s a Waveshare RP2040 Tiny and a mixture of Gateron Oil Kings and Gateron Yellow V3 switches. That lovely case is printed in silk silver PLA, but [New-Concentrate6308] wants to try metal-filled PLA for the next version. Although the original idea was to go wireless, ZMK didn’t play nicely with that round display, which of course is non-negotiable.



Hello Banana Katana! Goodbye Copper? :(


So this beauty is Banana Katana, a work in progress by [leifflat]. The bad news is that [liefflat] is probably gonna ditch the copper even though it looks sick here in circuit sculpture mode. Apparently it types nicely, but just doesn’t feel right overall.


keebin kristina circuit sculpture keyboard