What started as a passion project, grew legs and "Whimsy" was born. The process of designing and building a keyboard from scratch has been a huge learning curve and something completely out of my normal wheelhouse yet here we are... a fully custom, 40% keyboard with some tasty extras.

Prior to Whimsy, I didn’t have a clue about how to design or make a keyboard but I quickly came to the realisation that wanted to produce something I could be proud of and actually use as my daily board. After a bit of thinking, I settled on the idea of creating a board which combines some of the most favourable qualities that I look for in a keyboard. The list wasn’t massive but the main features that my custom board needed were a rotary encoder, to be USB-C, have an OLED display and around 40(ish)% in size... this would surely be absolute perfection in a keyboard.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and whether this is something that should be progressed.