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Corne keyboard, a split keyboard with 3x6 column staggered keys and 3 thumb keys.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2019-12-30 · latest 2025-12-11

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    Show HN: Cornifi split keyboard, a more staggered corne
    story by v3lmx · 2025-12-11 · 0 comments
  2. I see lot of love for Corne (and similar) keyboards, and 3.6k GH stars attest to that: https://github.com/foostan/crkbd
    comment by zokier · 2023-05-15 · in Show HN: I built my first Cyberdeck
  3. …my fingers up and down to find the right keys. Also my fingers have less distance to travel. [1]: https://github.com/foostan/crkbd
    comment by ProZsolt · 2022-09-10 · in ErgodoxE EZ – an ergonomic keyboard with open source firmware
  4. …keyboard[0] with a modified Miryoku[1] layout. In this way every symbol is near the home row [0]: https://github.com/foostan/crkbd [1]: https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku
    comment by ProZsolt · 2022-05-21 · in Building my first mechanical keyboard
  5. …what they meant. For me the biggest QoL improvement has been switching to a split ortho keeb ( https://github.com/foostan/crkbd ). They are super cheap to build (corne is 42 switches which are the most expensive component of a keeb) and…
    comment by qudat · 2021-09-23 · in Using two keyboards at once for pain relief
  6. …was having because my desk is tiny. [0] https://github.com/gtips/reviung/tree/master/reviung41 [1] https://github.com/foostan/crkbd [2] https://github.com/kata0510/Lily58
    comment by flamwenco · 2021-07-14 · in ZSA Planck EZ: A Powerful, Backlit, Open-Source, 40% Mechanical Keyboard
  7. …each row, that's definitely new. Over all this is a very cool direction to take ortho linears. [1] https://github.com/foostan/crkbd
    comment by grae_QED · 2021-05-19 · in Squeezebox Keyboard
  8. …you can customize everything you want about them. e.g.: https://splitkb.com/products/kyria-pcb-kit https://github.com/foostan/crkbd https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/
    comment by 7839284023 · 2020-09-28 · in Split Keyboard for Professionals
  9. …each hand" would be an advantage. One of the more popular split keyboards is the Corne Keyboard. https://github.com/foostan/crkbd There are split keyboards with more keys than the Corne, such as the Lily58.…
    comment by rgoulter · 2020-09-17 · in 433% Keyboard
  10. …have recently been complaining a tad more about not seeing the final product v.s. renders. [0] https://github.com/foostan/crkbd [1] https://keyhive.xyz/shop/hotswap-corne-helidox [2] https://www.littlekeyboards.com/products/corne-mx-hotswap…
    comment by leovander · 2020-06-07 · in The Dactyl-ManuForm Keyboard
  11. …use QMK keyboard firmware, which you can map however you like. This one is probably my favorite: https://github.com/foostan/crkbd
    comment by cameronc56 · 2019-12-30 · in The Joys of Unix Keyboards