model b
83 keys unibody
MX soldered RP2040 QMK
model-b.kicad_pcb.
No switches or keycaps: this is the board as manufactured.
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Record 89% complete · 16 of 18 fields
- ✓ Layout
- ✓ Switch footprint
- ✓ Build method
- ✓ Controller
- ✓ Body
- ✓ Firmware
- ✓ Hardware license
- ✓ Firmware license
- ✓ Documentation license
- ✓ Key pitch
- ✓ Soldering
- ✓ Soldered MCU
- ✓ Firmware targets
- ✓ Summary
- ✓ Key wiring
- ✓ Hotswap
- ✗ Splay
- ✗ Stagger
The Model-B is the second keyboard I've developed and aims to be the direct successor to the Model-K. I made this with the intention to develop a hotswappable keyboard which uses SMD components in order to reduce soldering overhead and learn microcontroller hardware development.
Layouts
- 83 keys
Spec
Shape
- Body
- unibody
- Splay
- — not recorded —
- Stagger
- — not recorded —
- Key spacing
- MX spacing · 19.05 × 19.05 mm
Switches
- Switch footprint
- MX
- Hotswap
- Kailh socket, Gateron socket
Electronics
- Controller
- soldered RP2040
- Connectivity
- Wired — the soldered RP2040 has no radio
- USB port
- USB-C
- Firmware
- QMK (trojan_pinata/model_b/rev0)
- Firmware targets
- RP2040
- Key wiring
- 6×15 matrix, column-to-row diodes
- Room for
- encoder
- Power switch
- no
- Exposed components
- no
Building it
- Build method
- PCB
- Soldering
- SMD, fine-pitch (MCU, USB, passive)
- SMD required
- yes
Licensing
- Hardware
- all rights reserved — no license stated
- Firmware
- all rights reserved — no license stated
- Documentation
- all rights reserved — no license stated