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  • I’m short, no, the keyboard you are describing does not exist. As others have pointed out, you might need to design your own.

    Besides the Y key requirement, the curved requirement is also going to make it a little trickier to design. If you want it curved then you’ll have a hard time making a PCB, so you’d probably want to hand-wire it in a 3d printed case or something. If you don’t necessarily need curved and would settle for tented then it’ll make that a little easier. Tented means when the two halves are tilted opposite directions with the middle highest and the edges lowest (like a classic A-frame tent). This would allow for two flat PCBs. You could make the halves separate or attached to each other depending on your preference. Presumably the numpad would then be flat relative to the desk.

    The closest thing that came to mind, by the way, is the keebio KBO-5000 as this is a pretty traditional tenkeyless layout (no numpad) but split, and can thus be tented with the addition of some feet or a wedge of some kind, then you can just have an external numpad. But as you can see, the Y key is in its correct spot on the right, rather than the left where you’d prefer it. Either way, hopefully this provides some inspiration for your design.

    Happy designing.





  • To speed up your PCB creation this board would be really quite easy to make in ergogen and that can spit out a PCB for you and all you’ll need to do is route it. Either way, it shouldn’t be too hard to make anyway.

    One tip if you make it in kicad yourself from scratch. Set your grid size to a fraction of 19.05 (MX Spacing), start by laying out one half of the switches and then rotate them as a block, then do the same for the other half. that’ll make it much easier to work with than trying to place everything on an angle.

    Good luck.