This listing is for a set (top + bottom) Case / Plates

Please note that this makes a single hand/side of the keyboard, a complete keyboard requires 2 sets of PCB's and (additional) components.

The Lotus 58 Keyboard

The Lotus 58 is a family of ergonomic split keyboards that can be customized and programmed to suit your individual needs.

The Lotus 58 Keyboard is meant to be DIY & beginner friendly, allowing almost anyone to succesfully build it from a kit to a finished keyboard, regardless of your previous level of experience soldering and tinkering, and with access to mostly basic level tools.

Some previous experience soldering is a great help but not in any way neccesary. Most components are selected to be large enough and robust enough to survive being handled by an inexperienced builder, and still produce a nice, clean keyboard, that functions well.

The 58 key layout is meant to be roughly equivalent to a 60% keyboard with a number row, but with no dedicated function keys, and with a gentle stagger, it should suit most hand sizes witout having to reach for the keys. Basically, it's meant to be a good middle ground, and to suit most users.

Cases and plates are meant to be largely interchangeable between different variations of Lotus 58, with obvious caveats for what layout you select, requiring the top plate to match (OLED/Encoder/Blank).

Sandwich Case plates

Top Plate (Four alternate versions)

• OLED Top Plate - Support for mounting an 0.91" OLED screen - NOTE! This does NOT fit a nice!view screen on Lotus 58 - BLE.
• Encoder Top Plate - Support for mounting a Rotary encoder in the upper position.
• Blank Top Plate - Blank plate with no mounting hole for a screen or upper encoder. Suitable for the Lotus 58 - unWired, but fits all Lotus versions.
• nice!view Top Plate - Suitable for the Lotus 58 - BLE Version and a nice!view screen. Please note that the nice!view is only supported on Lotus 58 - BLE.

Bottom Plate (Two alternate versions)

• Standard Bottom Plate - Standard bottom plate for a 'low profile' build.
• Tent/Tilt Bottom Plate - Bottom plate with three mounting ears (⌀3 mm hole) to support tenting and tilting your keyboard. (Req. additional hardware)

Mounting Hardware Kit

The parts needed for assembling the case.

• 5x brass spacers (M2).
• 10x countersunk hex head bolts (M2 x 4 mm)

Versions

v1.0 - The original design had breakaway parts for the switch holes, allowing the front plate to be used as a backplate.

v1.1 - Updated version with no breakaway parts, adding the blank option, and tentable bottom plates (⌀3 mm hole).

v1.2 - Adjusted fit on OLED cutout, Encoder and tenting plates are updated to a ⌀4 mm hole. No copper layer for better wireless performance.

v1.3 - Added nice!view plate.

Normal handling time is 3-5 working days (Build items usually take 1-2 weeks). I normally process orders on the weekend, as this is in-fact not my full time job.

Shipping is done predominantly with insured/signed for parcels, where no such service is available parcels will be sent as uninsured/untraceable at the buyers responsibility, of which is clearly stated at checkout.

All packets are represented to courier services and customs at their true value, and all responsibility for import fees, taxes and tariffs resulting there of lies with the buyer.

All items (as originally delivered) are sold with a 24 month limited warranty, as per (2011/83/EU). Shipping of items returned for repair is solely the responsibility of the buyer

The SE "Act on Distance Contracts and Off-Premises Contracts" (SFS 2005:59) & The EU "The Distance Selling Directive" (97/7/EC) allows returns of the items initiated within 14 days of receiving it. Shipping of returned items is solely the responsibility of the buyer.

(Please note that in the case of kits as is mainly sold here, this does no longer apply once you start soldering/building the kit as it is then no longer in it's original condition, and you have at that point explicitly accepted the purchase contract! Please test components and initiate a warranty claim BEFORE you solder them!)