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Sugar Glider - 40% Colstag with touchpad

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Prototypes

MX switches + touchpad + wide OLED + Choc mouse buttons

Choc switches + big knob + tall OLED

Welcome to the Sugar Glider Interest Check post. It’s a pretty experimental product packed with features so I’ll try to keep it straightforward. Starting in the middle with the most prominent feature is the Cirque GlidePoint touchpad. The position of the touchpad can be adjusted depending on where you like your mouse buttons to be. If you don’t want the touchpad there, you can swap it out for a knob. Above this section is where the OLED, GPIO expander, LEDs, and push buttons live. You can use either a 128x32 or 128x64 OLED here.

Now onto the mechanical part of this mechanical keyboard. The PCB supports both Choc and MX switches. You can do all Choc, all MX, half and half, alternating Choc/MX keys (you monster), it’s all up to you. There are also 2 spots for knobs under where your palms hover.

Currently, the base kit is estimated to cost 70 USD and will include the following:

PCB, bottom plate
Blackpill and GPIO expander
OLED, LEDs, diodes, other through hole components
Knobs and encoders
Glidepoint touchpad and necessary components
Assembly hardware

The kit contents are not finalized and subject to change based on IC responses.

Changes we are strongly considering for the group buy:

Plates for MX and Choc
Additional center column button layouts
Different placement of thumb clusters

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In addition to the planned steno support, the Choc spacing has been designed and tested to work with stenography.

We will update everything everywhere not quite all at once with the Group Buy details once we have a more solid timeline.

A new prototype has been ordered with the following changes and additions:

Innermost alpha column has been moved down to conform to typical colstag layouts.
Palm encoders positions now support Choc and MX switches
Trial half plates to check fit

Thank you for checking out this IC, please let us know what you think.

IC Form again.