Taking inspiration from the Planck (40% grid keyboard), I wanted to make a small keyboard that was also staggered. With only 37 keys, this is about as small as I could conceive without losing too much functionality.
Here is album that I originally posted to /r/mechanicalkeyboards.
Final product:
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/K2HMfZV.jpg)
Looking through the front
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/SgaBfUH.jpg)
Looking through the back
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/fkDYuAh.jpg)
Picture for scale
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/vgwTeoa.jpg)
My biggest complaint about this board is that only three fingers of my right hand rest on keys when I am at the home position and also that I don't have a right shift at the moment. I may be able to use a command in the firmware that treats the "Enter" key as a shift key if held down instead of just tapped.
Here is the current layout.
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/HU1FtlM.png)
Here is what I think would be an improved, slightly larger layout.
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/N3fO0yk.png)
What do you think? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
(If I haven't followed the correct/ best format in posting this, let me know so I can fix it!)