Cantor
42 keys split
Choc v1 BlackPill socket QMK
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Record 94% complete · 16 of 17 fields
- ✓ Layout
- ✓ Switch footprint
- ✓ Build method
- ✓ Controller
- ✓ Body
- ✓ Firmware
- ✓ Hardware license
- ✓ Firmware license
- ✓ Documentation license
- ✓ Key pitch
- ✓ Soldering
- ✗ Firmware targets
- ✓ Summary
- ✓ Key wiring
- ✓ Hotswap
- ✓ Splay
- ✓ Stagger
The Cantor keyboard is a 42 key diodeless split keyboard, designed with simplicity in mind. It is inspired on the popular corne, ferris and sweep keyboards, aiming to provide a more ergonomic (stronger column stagger) corne-like layout with a simple, easy to assemble and cheap design.
Layouts
- 42 keys
Spec
Shape
- Body
- split, 2 halves
- Split link
- TRRS cable
- Splay
- no
- Stagger
- column-staggered
- Key spacing
- Choc spacing · 18 × 17 mm
Switches
- Switch footprint
- Choc v1
- Hotswap
- No, the switches solder in
Electronics
- Controller
- BlackPill socket
- Connectivity
- Wireless with a MechWild PillBug — needs a ZMK config
- USB port
- USB-C, on the dev board
- Firmware
- QMK (cantor)
- Firmware targets
- — not recorded —
- Key wiring
- 21 direct pins per half
- Room for
- — not recorded —
- Power switch
- no
- Exposed components
- — not recorded —
Building it
- Build method
- PCB
- Soldering
- through-hole (connector)
- SMD required
- no
Licensing
- Hardware
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Firmware
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Documentation
- GPL-3.0-or-later
