Stag42
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A mechanical keyboard with 41 staggered keys, one off-kilter spacebar, and a guarantee of sidelong glances from anyone wandering past your desk.
Fully programmable, pre-flashed with QMK on an integrated controller. MX and ALPS style switch support. USB-C. A stable 2 layer kit, with an (undecided material) plate.
It's like a fucked up gamer Pain27. I love it!
internet person
We've successfully manufactured and shipped an alpha test-run (5 units), with a larger group-buy coming soon.
It’s weird! And I like it!
another internet person
How did we get here
None of this was supposed to happen.
Stag42 started life mainly as a joke.
The layout (something between a classic 40%, an ortholinear keyboard, and the physical manifestation of a really weird stress-dream) was made just to show a friend. After a handful of lovely insane internet people messaged, asking to buy any spare PCBs, I decided to turn this into a small run.
And here we are.
How do you even use a keyboard with only 42 keys?
Right. So. Look down at your keyboard.
Press a. Press 5. Press =.
Hold down <shift>. The same keys will now instead type
A, %, +.
Congratulations. You've just discovered layers. Stag42 (like many small keyboards) pushes this concept further in a futile attempt to sate the boundless hunger of our dark minimalist god.
If you want specifics, check out the image below. Or don't. It really only takes like a day before the feeling of it gets under your fingers and you don't even need to look at the reference.
Also - if you don't like this arrangement - you can program it however you want. Pretty sick, eh.
