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Recently, I've been looking into switching to a keyboard with an Ortho split layout. I want the cost to be as low as possible in case I end up not liking it. Any kits that would work for this? US btw, if that matters for availability

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cheapest would probably be cardboard https://golem.hu/guide/cardboard-prototyping/

If you look at my post history I just built a Cheapino for ~$50 USD https://github.com/tompi/cheapino

Although I think that’s not cheap and dirty, it’s more cheap and pretty. Probably easier to do than hand wiring as well.