Snake
The Snake is a 40% semi-ortho keyboard. PCB by 1000eyes , further case by Technofrikus .
KBD.information Printed February 11, 2026
The unique Snake , launched by 1000eyed a couple of 12 months in the past, is a semi-ortholinear keyboard with LEDs, rotary encoder help, and spacebar choices – that includes lighting impressed by the genre-defining traditional online game.
Simply noticed the keyboard made by 1000eyed on our Discord server and thought the format and integration with the LEDs and title was so cool! The case was not my fashion although, so I made my very own – Technofrikus.
Options
39-42 keys, 12×3 orthoish
MX switches , hotswap
Utilizing ScottoModules (on-board STM32F072CBT6 MCU)
A number of spacebar choices
Mounting: rubber gasket
QMK firmware
Sources
Printed on Wed eleventh Feb 2026. Featured in KBD #206 .
Associated
Yakamoz is a 50-key ortholinear keyboard by Özkan Çelik – it comes with an OLED show, buzzer, elective trackball and RGB underglow.
Richard Goulter shared two orthos: CH552-48 & CH552-44 – each utilizing a budget CH552 MCU.
Shane Hanna shared his PLA_NCK , a low-profile cut up ortholinear keyboard with Gateron KS-33 switches.
Barghoot is an ortho board with built-in trackball – launched by AlSaMoMo .
Kunsteak ‘s Briq is a wireless-only cut up ortho keyboard.
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splitkb.com , MoErgo Glove80 , Improve Keyboards , Cyboard , @keebio , Jacob Mikesell , BeaverKeys , Timo , KEEBD , littlemer-the-second , TALPKEYBOARD , @kaleid1990 , Brendan P. , ghsear.ch , HLPlanet , u/motfalcon , Bob Cotton , FFKeebs , @therick0996 , Christian Mladenov , Schnoor Typography , Daniel Nikolov , u/eighty58five , Caleb Rand , Micah Alpern , James McCleese , Ben M , Hana Lee , zzeneg , Spencer Dabell , Penk Chen , Anatolii Smolianinov , Stefan S. , Clacky , Alex Miller , Trey Causey , Cloyce , Dylan Ingham , Gordon Diggs , Mario S. , Matthias Goffette , Duncan B. , HubertTheMad , Jesse L. , Andres Sakk , Hating TheFruit , Shnobble , Ikasaya , Davidjohn Gerena , barraGOUDA , Technofrikus , Dickiedyce , drudru , Lee L., TurkeyBoards , 0xcircuitbreaker , Filip Salo , Chase M. , sungo , s_p_l_o_d_e , Derek Tam , Nghi H., Joerg L.
Toolkit
Keyboard Format Editor , Plate Builder / Plate Generator , QMK / kbfirmware.com (to QMK ), Professional Micro pinout & improve
Neighborhood
r/mk , ErgoMech , r/mechmarket , geekhack.org , deskthority.web , keebtalk.com/ , lemmy/mk/ , lemmy/ergomech/ , kbin/mk/
Manufacturing
PCB design information , one other one , PCB value comparability , lasergist , laserboost , hubs.com .