We don’t think gives themselves enough credit here. This is an alternative way of wiring up a matrix so that it’s closer to being square by doubling up the rows and halving the number of columns. Rather than using an I/O expansion chip or a second microcontroller, they wired it up as duplex matrix. wanted USB-C and so they used an Elite-C microcontroller, but there’s one big problem - it only has 24 pins, and according to the matrix math, the board needs 27 total. Then things got personal with an extra Backspace where Num Lock usually lives, and dedicated keys for switching between English, Korean, and Chinese. So started by adding another 12 F keys and making it ortholinear. But if you’re going to make your own keyboard, you should go all out, right? Right. That goes double since none of them seem to have a vertical Home/End cluster, which has become quite attached to thanks to a space-saving Logitech rectangle keeb. has long wanted a mechanical keeb, but has never been into any of the commercial offerings. At least, that’s what we’re going with for this post about ’ big, beautiful custom ortholinear called Nearer, as in nearer to perfect. There are all sorts of reasons to build your own keyboard, and we would argue that the more custom the layout, the easier it is to justify the time and expense.
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