Didaktik 40

The Didaktik 40 is a retro-style keyboard taking its inspiration form the czech homecomputer, the didaktik gama. While offering its original layout, it also supports more modern split and single spacebar bottomrow configurations as well as two rotary encoders. The case is designed by gizzle13. It is a 2 degree, 2 piece case with top mounting for either simple or burger topmounting. It uses an old-school unified daughterboard for the usb port. The case and pcb furthermore support 2 leds, just like on the original case, and another hole to access the reset button.

Layout

Link

Firmware

The basic firmware is set up to use the leds as layer indicators. Top for layer 1, bottom for layer 2, both for layer 3. There is hardware support for a speaker and for rgb strip but this is not enabled by default due to firmware size. Also note that the audio and rgb haven't been fully tested yet.

Case

The case is designed by gizzle13. Case files can be found in the respective folder. It is designed to use m2 heatinserts.

If you are in the EU consider asking gizzle to print the case for you to support them!

Disclaimer

This PCB has been fully tested and confirmed to work. The members of the PCB development team are however not liable if you end up with a non-functional pcb. Order at your own risk. Support will not be provided but pull requests will be reviewed and possibly accepted.

License

This project is released under the GPL v3 License. Please refer to the LICENCE file.

Credits

big thanks to gizzle13 for making this project possible. The whole idea really lives and thrives with the case!

As always big thanks also to the many people who inspired and helped with this board!

Any questions, contact Calvin0563 on Discord.